RESOURCES - Scholars
Patricia Aufderheide
Director
Center for Social Media
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC USA
(202) 885-3107
paufder@american.edu
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/
Interest/Emphasis:  Media and society.

Daniel Benardi
Director, Film & Media Studies
Arizona State University
P. O. Box 870402
Tempe, AZ USA
480-965-6747
daniel.bernardi@asu.edu
film.asu.edu
Interest/Emphasis:  Race and gender in television; science fiction; TV production.

Frank Bianco
Coordinator of Television and Journalism Departments
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL USA
312-344-7509
fbianco@colum.edu
www.columbiacollege.tv
Interest/Emphasis:  Television.

Aniko Bodroghkozy
Associate Professor
Dept. of Media Studies
University of Virginia
401 New Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA USA
434-243-8855 or 434924-6613
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history, particularly television in the 1960s; television and movements for social change; television and the '60s youth movement; television and civil rights; television and the women's movement.

Marsha Cassidy
Professor
Department of English
University of Illinois at Chicago
??
Chicago, IL USA
312-413-8939
N/A
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history; television and feminism; television and snyesthesia.

Becca Cragin, Ph.D.
N/A
Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University
108 Popular Culture Building
Bowling Green, OH USA
419-372-7860
bcragin@bgsu.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Queer and feminist television, especially on sitcoms and in crime genres.

Michael Curtin
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
6016 Vilas Hall
Madison, WI USA
608-233-2410
N/A
commarts.wisc.edu/People/Bios/curtin.htm
Interest/Emphasis:  Globalization of media, screen industries, cultural geography, media history, new media, documentary.

Mary Dalton
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication, and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow
Wake Forest University
P.O. Box 7347
Winston-Salem, NC USA
336-758-6120
dalton@wfu.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Situation comeides; depiction of teachers in TV and film.

Cynthia Fuchs
Associate Professor, Director
Film & Media Studies
George Mason University
N/A
Washington, DC USA
N/A
cfuchs@gmu.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  N/A

Jonathan Gray
Assistant Professor
Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY USA
(718) 817-4861
jongray@fordham.edu
www.extratextual.tv/
Interest/Emphasis:  Satire, parody, comedy, convergence, developments in television narrative, serial television, audiences, tv and film promotions and surrounding paraphernalia, "The Simpsons," "Lost," "The Wire," "Star Wars," "Lord of the Rings," television entertainment's engagement with politics, fan studies.

Mary Beth Haralovich
Director, Media Arts Internship Program
School of Media Arts
University of Arizona
845 N. Park Ave.
P.O. Box 210158B
Tucson, AZ USA
520-621-7800
mbharalo@u.arizona.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  U.S. television social history; 1950s domestic comedies; episodic drama (in particular legal drama); TV drama about current politics; reality television.

Chad Harriss
N/A
Alfred University
N/A
Alfred, NY USA
N/A
harriss@alfred.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  TV and American culture, genre studies, formalism, narrative.

Timothy Havens
N/A
University of Iowa
121 Becker Communication Studies Bldg.
Iowa City, IA USA
319-335--0614
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Race and TV, globalization, international TV trade, Eastern European TV.

Shana Heinricy
N/A
Department of Communications
Xavier University
1 Drexel Drive
Box 93
New Orleans, LA USA
504-520-5100
sheinric@xula.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  N/A

Jennifer Holt
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Film and Media Studies
UC Santa Barbara
1805 Ellison Hall
University of California
Satna Barbara, CA USA
805-893-5408
jholt@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Media industry studies, political economy, regulation and policy.

Victoria E Johnson
N/A
Film and Media Studies
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Instruction Building 213
University of California
Irvine, CA USA
949-824-3448
www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4927
Interest/Emphasis:  Broadcast media theory, history and historiography; social and critical history of U.S. television and popular film; cultural studies; race, geography and popular media; popular music and scoriung in film and television; sport culture; branding and identity; entertainment law and the construction of celebrity as property; media policy and rural access to communication technology.

Catherine Johnson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Media Arts
Royal Holloway
University of London
London, England
N/A
Cathy.Johnson@rhul.ac.uk
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history and theory; the relationship between
institutions and the programmes they produce; questions of genre, cultural value, aesthetics and visual style; impact of new media.

Jeffrey P Jones
Associate Professor
Communication & Theatre Arts Dept.
Old Dominion Univeristy
N/A
Norfolk, VA USA
757-683-6267
www.odu.edu/al/jpjones
Interest/Emphasis:  Satire on television, "Saturday Night Live," news coverage of politics, political entertainment programming (i.e., "The Daily Show," "Real Time"), political talk shows, HBO.

Mary Celeste Kearney
Associate Professor
Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas
1 University Station
A0800
Austin, TX USA
512-475-8648
mkearney@mail.utexas.edu
rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/kearney
Interest/Emphasis:  Gender(girls and women mostly), teens, U.S. dramas and sitcoms, TV history.

Amanda R Keeler
Doctoral student
Indiana University
N/A
Bloomington, IN USA
N/A
arkeeler@indiana.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  History of broadcasting, contemporary feminist television, women's dramatic programming, American television industry with an emphasis on broadcast networks.

Anita CK Lee
N/A
Dept. of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong, China
852-926-02068
anita.lee@hku.hk or anitacklee@gmail.com
mywebpage.netscape.com/anitackleehk/homepage.html
Interest/Emphasis:  Television and media studies, literature and film, feminism, gender and sexuality.

Elana Levine
Associate Professor
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2522 E. Hartford Road
Milwaukee, WI USA
414-229-4718
ehlevine@uwm.edu
elana.levine@googlepages.com
Interest/Emphasis:  American entertainment television, particularly sitcoms, dramas and daytime soap operas; American teleivision in the 1970s; television and issues of sex and gender.

Laura R Linder
Associate Professor of Media Arts
School of Communication and the Arts
Marist College
N/A
Poughkeepsie, NY USA
N/A
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Situation comedies, TV history, cable and public-access television, freedom of expression and democracy.

Amanda Lotz
N/A
Department of Communication Studies
University of Michigan
1225 S. University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI USA
734-615-4036
lotz@umich.edu
N/a
Interest/Emphasis:  Industrial changes and their consequences for television, including technologies (DVR, VOD, portable devices); changing economics; means of distribution;advertising strategies; audience measurement techniques; also gender and television, specifically women in dramas and cable networks that target women.

Tara McPherson
Associate Professor, Critical Studies
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
N/A
Los Angeles, CA USA
213-740-3330
tmcphers@usc.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Gender and race on TV; media literacy; TV and digital technologies.

Jason Mittell
Associate Professor
American Studies and Film & Media Culture
Middleburty College
204 Adirondack House
Middlebury, VT USA
802-443-3435
Blog http://justtv.wordpress.com
seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history and criticism, media and cultural history, genre theory, narratology, animation and children's media, cultural historiography, and new media studies & technological convergence.

Juan Monroy
Doctoral candidate
Department of Cinema Studies
New York University
N/A
New York, NY USA
N/A
jjm308@nyu.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history, political economy, multi-channel television, TV and globalization.

Megan Mullen
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Univerisity of Wisconsin-Parkside
900 Wood Road
Kenosha, WI USA
262-595-2464
mullen@uwp.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history, cable television, oral history research, visual analysis.

Gary Needham
N/A
N/A
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
City Center
Nottingham, England
N/A
gary.needham@ntu.ac.uk
www.ntu.ac.uk
Interest/Emphasis:  American television, television and sexuality; television genre.

Darrell M Newton
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Theater Arts
Salisbury University
269 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD USA
410-677-5060
faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
Interest/Emphasis:  Transnationalism and media studies; media literacy; BBC Television and representations of West Indian immigrants (Black Britons).

Susan Ohmer
William T. and Helen Kuhn Carey Associate Professor of Modern Communication
Department of Film, Television and Theatre
University of Notre Dame
230 Performing Arts Center
Notre Dame, IN USA
574-631-7671
sohmer@nd.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history and digital culture; media audiences; media and the election process.

Alisa Perren
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Georgia State University
Dept. of Communication
P.O. Box 4000
Atlanta, GA USA
404-413-5633
aperren@gsu.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television studies, media industry studies, U.S. film and TV history.

Sarah Projansky
N/A
Gender and Women's Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
911 S. 6th St.
Champaign, IL USA
217-333-2990
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Gender, race and sexuality on TV; multimedia and transexuality; feminist television studies.

Sharon Ross
Assistant Professor
Television Department
Columbia College
N/A
Chicago, IL USA
773-728-0684
sross@colum.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Interactions of the internet and TV; TV audience reception, particularly fandom; teen television; gender, race, sexuality.

Sharon Shahaf
Assistant Instructor
Department of Radio-TV-Film
University of Texas
1 University Station A0800
Austin, TX USA
N/A
sharonsha@utexax.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Global television.

Greg M Smith
Associate Professor of Moving Image Studies
Department of Communication
Georgia State University
N/A
Atlanta, GA USA
N/A
N/A
www.gsu.edu/~jougms.
Interest/Emphasis:  Narrative and television; "Ally McBeal."

Janet Staiger
William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas
One University Station A0800
Austin, TX USA
512-471-6653
rtf.texas.edu/faculty/staiger
Interest/Emphasis:  N/A

Brian Taves
n/A
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
Library of Congress
Packard Campus
19053 Mount Pony Road
Culpepper, VA USA
202-707-9930
btav@loc.gov
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history, especially adaptation issues.

Robert Thompson
Director, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture
Newhouse School of Public Communication
Syracuse University
Newhouse III Room 430A
Syracuse, NY USA
315-443-4077
rthompson@syr.edu
newhouse.syr.edu/
Interest/Emphasis:  Television history, popular culture, TV criticism.

Frank P Tomasulo
Professor and Head, Film Studies
College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts
Florida State University
A3100 University Center
Tallahassee, FL USA
850-644-0787
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  Television theory and history, TV genres, textual analysis of broadcast news, "The Sopranos."

Stephen Tropiano
Director, Ithaca College Los Angeles Program
Department of Television and Radio
Ithaca College
James P. Pendelton Center
3800 Barham Blvd., Suite 305
Los Angeles, CA USA
323-851-6199
stropiano@ithaca.edu
N/A
Interest/Emphasis:  N/A

 

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