Kelley Kreitz is Professor of English at Pace University in New York City. Her research brings together Latinx studies, media studies, and US and Latin American literary studies and has appeared in American Literary History, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, English Language Notes, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among other journals. She leads the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org, which recovers New York City’s vibrant nineteenth-century Spanish-language publishing community, and she is the author of Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century (NYU Press, 2026). She serves on the advisory board of the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.

Previously, she was a postdoctoral visiting scholar in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT, and she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Kelley has also worked as a reporter for several nonprofits dedicated to broadcast and digital media production and as the Director of Knowledge at Root Cause, a nonprofit committed to researching and advancing social entrepreneurship.

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kkreitz@pace.edu