Author: Shearon Roberts / Xavier University of Louisiana

Shearon Roberts, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Mass Communication and African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume Recasting the Disney Princess in an era of New Media and Social Movements by Lexington Books. She is co-editor of HBO’s Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis: The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans and co-author of Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster. She researches media representations of race and gender and Latin American and Caribbean media discourse.