Louie Dean Valencia

Louie Valencia

Associate Professor of Digital History
Faculty-In-Residence, Honors College
Office: TMH 210 
Email: lvalencia@txstate.edu 
Office Phone: 512.245.2103 
Instagram/Threads/X: @BurntCitrus

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:
Europe; youth and queer history; social change; popular culture and celebrity; social media, music, and visual culture; fascism/far-right culture; identiarianism; antifascism; historical memory; urban spaces and the environment; digital development, design, and curation

Biography 
Dr. Louie Dean Valencia researches how young people create social change through art, countercultural spaces, activism, media, celebrity, and in the streets. He is a member of the editorial board of Popular Culture Review and Revista Internacional de Estudios sobre Terrorismo.  He holds a Ph.D. in Early and Late Modern European History from Fordham University.

His first book, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism, was a finalist for Council for European Studies book award and tells the story of the emergence of the ‘Movida Madrileña’, a countercultural New Wave youth culture that subverted Spain’s fascist régime and contributed to the country’s successful democratic transition. Dr. Valencia’s second book, Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, proposes a theoretical framework to understand how the far right alters the past so that to legitimate fascist ideologies. He focuses on youth Identitarian movements and Nordic far-right activists online and publishers known for radicalizing young people into fascist ideologies. He has also published numerous articles and chapters on comic books, television, film, music, zines, and internet culture studying the role of art in creating social change. He is completing a book on masculinity, celebrity, and British musician Harry Styles. Dr. Valencia’s on-going research includes a study of HIV/AIDS in Europe.

Dr. Valencia has taught at Harvard University and has been a Swann Fellow of the United States Library of Congress. As an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, he curated exhibitions on swing dance in Harlem and the photography of Carl Van Vechten, and his work is featured in the permanent exhibition, New York at Its Core. He has directed and developed curricula for the Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute at Princeton University, a fully-funded five-week pipeline program. He has also worked as a digital strategy analyst/consultant on major digital projects and campaigns for Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP, Pepsi, Ann Taylor/LOFT, Jack Wills, Patrón Tequila, amongst others. 

Dr. Valencia’s work is known internationally, and has been covered by NPR, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Today Show,  Us Weekly,  Glamour, Good Morning America, Elle, GQ, Vanity Fair, NME, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Dazed, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, L’essentiel, Cosmopolitan, Paper, Grazia, Hunger, Nylon, Complex, amongst hundreds of other local and international media outlets. 

He can usually be found reading, browsing a comic book shop, writing, chatting at a café, listening to his record collection, digging through archives, or planning his next trip. He is most likely listening to Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Shawn Mendes, the 1975, Arcade Fire, Lana del Rey, Guitarricadelafuente, Patti Smith, Nelly Furtado, Caravan Palace, Ratatat, or Phoenix.

Research Opportunities 
Dr. Valencia is currently accepting undergraduate and graduate students interested in assisting with his current research projects as part of an independent study for course credit, an Honors capstone project, or on a volunteer basis.

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Courses Taught

Graduate

  • Digital History (HIST 5375N)
  • European Fascisms and Historical Memory (HIST 5318F)
  • The Practice of Public History (HIST 5371)

Undergraduate

  • Europe since 1919 (HIST 3311)
  • Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture (Honors 3399Q)
  • History Lab: European Cinema and Film Festival (HIST 4374B)
  • History of Early Modern Spain from 1492 to 1808 (HIST 3332)
  • History of Modern Spain from 1808 to Present (HIST 3333)
  • Humanities II: The Spanish Civil War (HON 2309H)
  • International Studies Senior Capstone (IS 4380)
  • Myths of Western Civilization (HON 3399F)
  • Podcasting History: Marking Marginalized Voices Heard (4318Z)
  • Queer Youth History (HIST 4318W)
  • University Seminar (US 1100 [Honors])
  • Western Civilization, 1715 to Date (HIST 2320)