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past and present PhD students
superb scholars whose work you should be reading
Diss title: “Receptive Bodies: Sensation, Affect, and Attunement Amongst Media Audiences”
Recent projects: Taste Culture: Fan Food as Sensorial Play and Pilgrimage in Eating Fandom: Intersections Between Fans and Food Culture eds. CarrieLynn Reinhard, Julia Largent, and Bertha Chin
See her Playback pieces here
Diss title: “Sites of Confluence: Curating Cosmopolitanism in the Digital Age”
Recent projects: Made in Taiwan: Paratexts of Life of Pi and a Dynamic Sense of Place Critical Studies in Media Communication 2019
Diss title: “At the Center of the Periphery: Remediating Anime to and through Mexico City”
Recent projects: 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
Cartooning Pre-Revolutionary Cuba: The Animated Exoticism of Time and Place in Vampiros en la Habana Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 2015
Diss title: “Syndicated Queerness: Television Talk Shows, Rerun Syndication, and the Serials of Norman Lear”
Recent projects:
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
“Forced Out of the Flannel Closet”: Glee and #biphobia in Queer in the Choir Room: Sexuality and Gender in Glee ed. Michelle Parke
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
Diss title: “Get Smarter: The Wearables, Carriables, and Shareables of Digital Self-Actualization”
Recent 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
Diss title: “Regional Lockout: Geographic Restrictions, Digital Entertainment Platforms, and Global Cultural Difference”
Recent 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)
Diss title: “Location, Relocation, Dislocation: Television’s Spatial Capital”
Recent projects: Game of Thrones: A Guide to Westeros and Beyond (Chronicle Books 2019)
Classroom Instruments and Carpool Karaoke: Ritual and Collaboration in Late Night’s YouTube Era
Television and New Media 2017
Kim Bjarkman (2014)– Independent Scholar –
Diss title: “‘Not The Cosby Show’: Comedy in the Age of Irony and Political Incorrectness”
Diss title: “Genre’s Disciplining Discourses: Cultural Difference and Contemporary Genre Television”
Recent 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
Diss title: “Access Ability: Policies, Practices, and Representations of Disability Online”
Recent projects: Call If You Can, Text If You Can’t: A Dismediation of US Emergency Communication Infrastructure International Journal of Communication 2019
Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (NYU Press, 2016)
Diss title: “From Bits to Bytes: Sketch Comedy in the Multi-Channel and Digital Convergence Eras”
Recent projects: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television (Indiana University Press, 2019)
The Comedy Studies Reader (University of Texas Press, 2018)
Diss title: “The Logics of Synergy: Media Conglomerates and Cross-Promotional Practices”
Recent 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)
Diss title: “From All Directions: Globalization and the Struggle for Independent Palestinian Media”
Recent 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
Jonathan Gray
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