Alexander Feliciano Mejía

Alex Feliciano Mejía is an educational semiotician, artist, and writer whose work examines how communities navigate and transform conditions of racial capitalism.

Through experimental films, archival research, and ethnographic studies, Alex investigates how memory, identity, and knowledge materialize across linguistic, technological, and institutional interfaces. His current projects include research on film archives in Guatemala, and the production of experimental essay films. Both of these projects interrogate archival practices and their role in constructing Latin American identities and political histories. This work builds upon his past projects with Maya-Mam youth in Oakland and Guatemala, which included ethnographic research on language and identity, as well as participatory community filmmaking practices. 

As Assistant Professor of Critical Literacy at San Francisco State University, Alex's teaching supports student-teachers in understanding semiotic processes in education – from classroom discourse to audiovisual composition. His pedagogical approach brings together critical media arts practices with studies of multilingualism to examine how racialized working-class communities engage in everyday forms of creativity, ingenuity, and solidarity. By combining analog and digital media processes with semiotic studies of language and communication, Alex’s work reveals how personal and collective narratives emerge at the intersection of embodied knowledge, communicative practice, and technological mediation.