MIT World Speakers

Carolina Acosta-Alzuru

Carolina Acosta-Alzuru teaches public relations, graphic communication and cultural studies. She teaches both an honors seminar (in Spanish) and an undergraduate course (in English) about telenovelas, culture and society. She is the author of the book Venezuela es una Telenovela (Alfa, 2007) and has authored or co-authored articles in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs, The Journal of Communication, and Critical Studies in Media Communication, among others.

She received a B.S. in Computer Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia.