Faculty Associate
cmecija[at]yorku.ca
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies, York University
Research Keywords:
Sound studies; queer diaspora studies; Filipinx studies
Research Region(s):
Research Diaspora(s):
Filipino Diaspora
Casey Mecija is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her current research examines sound as a mode of affective, psychic and social representation, specifically in relation to diasporic experience. Drawing on sound studies, queer diaspora studies and Filipinx Studies, her research considers how sensorial encounters are enmeshed and disciplined by social and psychic conditions. Her work suggests that media production enables diasporic people to create forms of belonging that defy racialized ascriptions born from racism, colonialism and their gendered dimensions. She is also a musician and filmmaker whose work has received a number of accolades and has been presented internationally.