Dolores Inés Casillas received her PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on immigrant engagement with U.S. Spanish-language media.  She is the author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy (NYU Press, 2014), which received two book prizes and co-editor with María Elena Cepeda (Williams College) of the Companion to Latina/o Media Studies (Routledge Press, 2016) and co-editor with Mary Bucholtz and Jin Sook Lee (UC Santa Barbara) of Feeling It: Language, Race and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning (Routledge Press, 2018).  Sounds of Belonging had been cited in different media venues, such as, the Associated Press, Pacific Radio, ABCNEWS.COM, Buzzfeed, and National Public Radio (NPR). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where she teaches courses on Chicana/o sound practices, popular culture, and the politics of language. She is a co-chair for the Sound Studies Caucus for the American Studies Association (ASA), director of the Spanish and Bilingual Radio caucus for the Radio Preservation Task Force hosted by the Library of Congress, and a contributor to Sounding Out! A Sound Studies Blog.