Research Interests
Childhood StudiesGirlhood StudiesChildren’s RightsPopular CultureDisney StudiesRepresentation and DiversityYouth Literatures and CulturesChildren's Toys and MediaLatinx Identities
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes
I am always interested in involving students in my research. Feel free to email me with any interest in independent study work or research projects you may have interest in. Contact Dr. Aguiló-Pérez at EAguilo@wcupa.edu
*Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels have collaborated with me in projects, including published work.
Volunteer Research Positions Available: Yes
Scholarship Bibliography for the Disney Research Network
Biography
Associate professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, specializing in youth literatures and cultures. Her work has appeared in The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature, Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, and the edited collections The Marketing of Children’s Toys: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Consumer Culture (Palgrave, 2021) and Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums (Routledge, 2022). among others. She has served on youth media award committees, including the 2022 Newbery Award. Her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play (Berghahn, 2022), examines the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play. She recently served as guest co-editor for a special issue of the journal Girlhood Studies (2022). Aguiló-Pérez has presented peer-reviewed papers on children’s media culture and Barbie at major conferences in her field, including those of the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), the International Girlhood Studies Association (IGSA), the National Communication Association (NCA), and the Popular Culture Association (PCA), among others.
