Lucila Rozas

Lucila Rozas Urrunaga (she/they) is a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 

Lucila’s interdisciplinary research sits at the intersections of feminist theory, decolonial thought, and communication studies, with a focus on the transnational circulation of subjugated knowledges (ideas, affects, practices, and discourses) that emerge from feminist struggles in South America.

Through a combination of multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), autoethnography, and qualitative fieldwork, Lucila explores how Latin American feminist activists translate and mediate embodied performances, protest repertoires, and artistic interventions into public knowledge that fuels collective action. Her current work traces how feminist memory and resistance are archived, circulated, and reimagined across digital and physical spaces, with particular attention to the role of grassroots movements, community storytelling, and non-institutional knowledge practices.

Lucila’s research has been supported by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, through which they are developing a participatory archive documenting Latin American feminist resistance and memory practices. In addition to their academic work, Lucila co-organized the Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium and co-curated Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity, an exhibition exploring feminist world-making through art, performance, and speculative praxis.  

Committed to bridging scholarship and activism, Lucila’s work centers community engagement, experimental methodologies, and feminist praxis as tools for reimagining liberation beyond institutional boundaries.