Advisees

past and present PhD students

superb scholars whose work you should be reading

Daphne Gershon
(expected 2024)
dissertator

Diss title: “Conspicuous Dysfunction: Televisual Portrayals of Sex and Sexuality in the Networked Era”

Select projects: More Than a Makeover: Discourses of Masculinity, Hyposexuality, and Marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! International Journal of Cultural Studies 2022

Maybe It Is a Big Deal? Portrayals of Erectile Dysfunction in Television Comedy Feminist Media Studies 2022

Same Shame: National, Regional, and International Discourses Surrounding Shoaib Mansoor’s Cinematic Portrayal of Gender Oppression Feminist Media Studies 2021

Laura Schumacher
(2023)
– University of Wisconsin-Madison –
Lecturer

Diss title: “How to Be a Feminist: Media, Gender, and Age in the Era of Instructional Feminism”

Select projects: Preteens in Pantsuits: Instructional Feminism and the Professionalization of Girlhood Fashion on the Red Carpet Feminist Media Studies 2023

Wan-Jun Lu
(2021)
–University of San Francisco–
Asst. Professor of Media Studies

Diss title: “Sites of Confluence: Curating Cosmopolitanism in the Digital Age”

Select projects: Made in Taiwan: Paratexts of Life of Pi and a Dynamic Sense of Place Critical Studies in Media Communication 2019

Viki: Governing Transnational Fandom via Platforms in From Networks to Netflix ed. Derek Johnson (2022)

Camilo Diaz Pino (2018)
– West Chester University –
Asst. Professor of Communication & Media

Diss title: “At the Center of the Periphery: Remediating Anime to and through Mexico City”

Select projects: “K-Pop is Rupturing Chilean Society: Fighting with Globalized Objects in Localized Conflicts Communication, Culture, and Critique 2021

Flows in Reflux: Video Brinquedo and the BRICS “Mockbuster” as a Glitch in Mediatic Hegemony Television and New Media 2017

Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim Studies in Comics 2015

Taylor Cole Miller (2017)
– University of Wisconsin, La Crosse –
Asst. Professor
of Media Studies

Diss title: “Syndicated Queerness: Television Talk Shows, Rerun Syndication, and the Serials of Norman Lear”

Select projects: Rewitched: Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched Camera Obscura 2021

The Fashion of Florrick and FLOTUS: On Feminism, Gender Politics, and “Quality Television” Television & New Media 2017

Social Sorrow: Tweeting the Mourning of Whitney Houston in Death and the Rock Star eds. Catherine Strong and Barbara Lebrun

Tony Tran (2017)
– Boston College –
Asst. Professor of Communication

Diss title: “Digital Diasporic Cultures and Everyday Media: The Vietnamese Diaspora in Vancouver, Canada”

Recent projects: Imagining the Perfect Asian Woman through Hate: Michelle Phan, Anti-Phandom, and Asian Diasporic Beauty Cultures Communication, Culture and Critique 2020

Creating Sound in Silences: The Second Wave Podcast and Pluralizing Vietnamese Diasporic Histories Popular Communication 2019

Vietnamese Diasporic Films and the Construction of Dysfunctional Transnational Families: The Rebel and Owl and the Sparrow in Routledge Companion to Asian American Media eds. Lori Kido Lopez & Vincent Pham

Sarah Murray (2016)
– University of Michigan –
Asst. Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures

Diss title: “Get Smarter: The Wearables, Carriables, and Shareables of Digital Self-Actualization”

Select projects: Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps (University of Michigan Press 2018)

Lez Takes Time: Designing Lesbian Contact in Geosocial Networking Apps (with Megan Sapnar Ankerson) Critical Studies in Media Communication 2016

Evan Elkins (2015)
– Colorado State University –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

Diss title: “Regional Lockout: Geographic Restrictions, Digital Entertainment Platforms, and Global Cultural Difference”

Select projects: Algorithmic Cosmopolitanism: On the Global Claims of Digital Entertainment Platforms Critical Studies in Media Communication 2019

Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (NYU Press 2019)

Myles McNutt (2015)
– Old Dominion University –
Assoc. Professor
of Communication & Theatre Arts

Diss title: “Location, Relocation, Dislocation: Television’s Spatial Capital”

Select projects: Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation (Routledge 2021)

Game of Thrones: A Guide to Westeros and Beyond (Chronicle Books 2019)

Kim Bjarkman (2014)

– Independent Scholar –

Diss title: “‘Not The Cosby Show’: Comedy in the Age of Irony and Political Incorrectness”

Kyra Hunting (2014)
– University of Kentucky –
Assoc. Professor of Journalism and Media

Diss title: “Genre’s Disciplining Discourses: Cultural Difference and Contemporary Genre Television”

Select projects: Finding the Child Fan: A Case for Studying Children in Fandom Studies The Journal of Fandom Studies 2019

Discriminating Taste: Maintaining Gendered Social Hierarchy in a Cross-Demographic Fandom Feminist Media Studies 2019

“I’ll See You in Mystic Falls”: Intimacy, Feelings, and Public Issues in Ian Somerhalder’s Celebrity Activism (with Ashley Hinck) Critical Studies in Media Communication 2017

Elizabeth Ellcessor (2012)
– University of Virginia –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

Diss title: “Access Ability: Policies, Practices, and Representations of Disability Online”

Select projects: Blue Light Emergency Phones on Campus: Media Infrastructures of Feeling International Journal of Cultural Studies 2019

Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (NYU Press, 2016)

Nick Marx (2014)
– Colorado State University –
Assoc. Professor of Communication Studies

Diss title: “From Bits to Bytes: Sketch Comedy in the Multi-Channel and Digital Convergence Eras”

Select projects: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television (Indiana University Press, 2019)

The Comedy Studies Reader (University of Texas Press, 2018)

Erin Copple Smith (2012)
– Austin College –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

Diss title: “The Logics of Synergy: Media Conglomerates and Cross-Promotional Practices”

Select projects: Nick, Jr.: Co-Viewing and the Limits of Dayparts in From Networks to Netflix ed. Derek Johnson (2018)

“Affluencers” by Bravo: Defining an Audience Through Cross-Promotion Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 2012

A Form in Peril: The Death and Afterlife of the Made-for-TV Movie in Beyond Prime Time ed. Amanda Lotz (2009)

Matt Sienkiewicz (2011)
– Boston College –
Assoc. Professor of Communication

Diss title: “From All Directions: Globalization and the Struggle for Independent Palestinian Media”

Select projects: The Other Air Force: US Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11 (Rutgers University Press, 2016)

Start Making Sense: A Three-Tiered Approach to Citizen Journalism Media, Culture and Society 2014

… and see Nick Marx above for their collaborative work

advisees

past and present PhD students

superb scholars whose work you should be reading

dissertator

– University of Wisconsin-Madison –Lecturer

–University of San Francisco–Asst. Professor of Media Studies

– West Chester University –Asst. Professor of Communication & Media

– University of Wisconsin, La Crosse –Asst. Professor of Media Studies

– Boston College –Asst. Professor of Communication

– University of Michigan –Asst. Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures

– Colorado State University –Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Old Dominion University –Assoc. Professor of Communication & Theatre Arts

Kim Bjarkman (2014)

– Independent Scholar –

– University of Kentucky –Assoc. Professor of Journalism and Media

– University of Virginia –Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Colorado State University –Assoc. Professor of Communication Studies

– Austin College –Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Boston College –Assoc. Professor of Communication

Jonathan Gray

– University of Wisconsin-Madison –
Lecturer

–University of San Francisco–
Asst. Professor of Media Studies

– West Chester University –
Asst. Professor of Communication & Media

– University of Wisconsin, La Crosse –
Asst. Professor
of Media Studies

– Boston College –
Asst. Professor of Communication

– University of Michigan –
Asst. Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures

– Colorado State University –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Old Dominion University –
Assoc. Professor
of Communication & Theatre Arts

– University of Kentucky –
Assoc. Professor of Journalism and Media

– University of Virginia –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Colorado State University –
Assoc. Professor of Communication Studies

– Austin College –
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies

– Boston College –
Assoc. Professor of Communication