Christina Riley is currently an ABD doctoral student and teaching fellow in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. She has a BA in English (minor Creative Writing) from Oglethorpe University and an MA in English (concentration Film Theory) from North Carolina State University. She has worked in digital image archiving and co-founded and co-directed a media literacy nonprofit working specifically with at-risk and LGBTQA youth. She has published for Bright Lights Film Journal, Palaver Literary Journal and has several upcoming works released within the upcoming year, including a chapter in The Second International Volume of Internet Research by Springer. 
Actors & Personalities · Essays · War
“I read so much about immigrants, how they must adjust to customs and the words of foreign lands. Maybe because I was never treated like an immigrant! Nobody made excuses for me. Not then – not now. Nobody cares about my roots.”1 – Marlene Dietrich, April 15, 1985
