About

Chelsea Kai Roesch is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara and a Regents Fellowship recipient, awarded to exceptional doctoral students in the humanities. She holds a B.A. in Media and Cultural Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. At Hampshire College she focused on political theory, critical race and gender studies, and American foreign and domestic policy.  

Following her undergraduate studies, Chelsea received a two-year teaching fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to serve as a North American Language and Cultural Ambassador in Madrid, Spain. After living in Madrid, she consulted for tech startups in Los Angeles and San Francisco on best practices for hiring software engineers.

Chelsea is an Editorial Assistant at Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (Duke University Press) and Managing Director of the Technologies for Justice Lab at the Center for Feminist Futures at UC Santa Barbara.

Her current research interests include: labor, casino gambling, Marxism, American nationalism, Internet subcultures, right-wing movements, memes, popular culture, and feminism.