SCMSTV Member Directory

Christine Becker
University of Notre Dame
Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre
becker.34@nd.edu

Research Interests
I am currently working on a manuscript studying of the role of Hollywood film stars on fifties television, and beginning a second project on contemporary British and American television. The research areas that interest me most are film and television stardom, the industrial and cultural relationships among film, television and radio, and comparisons between British and American television.

Teaching Interests
I have taught both film and television intro and history courses. At Notre Dame, Susan Ohmer and I have established a new television major within our department, so I plan in the future to teach courses on TV theory and criticism, 50s TV, and media stardom.

Other Info
I got my Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and did my undergrad work at the University of Illinois-Champaign. I'm currently the SCMSTV webmaster, so if you have any feedback or suggestions for the site, please let me know.

Timothy Havens
The University of Iowa
Department of Communication Studies and African American Studies Program
timothy-havens@uiowa.edu

Research Interests: My primary research interest is in how worldwide cultural
differences (race, gender, nation, age) shape and are shaped by the business
practices of international television trade. I have a book coming out from BFI
in July 2006 entitled, Global Television Marketplace. I'm also working on a book
project about the international distribution of African American television
programming since the seventies, and an examination of Central European
television industries since the collapse of socialism.

Teaching interests: I teach courses in race and media, media globalization,
television studies, media industries, and international television trade.

Other info: I graduate from Indiana University in 2000, and taught at Old
Dominion University before moving to Iowa in 2003. I've also spent a semester in
Hungary as a Fulbright researcher.

Devorah Heitner
Cinema and Media Studies, Dept. of Communication
DePaul University
dheitner@depaul.edu

Research Interests
Black Media, American Studies, Activist Media, Kids Media, Latino Media, Race, Political Economy

Teaching Interests
Cultural Studies, Cinema and Television Studies, New Media Studies, Black Cinema, Cultural History, Activist Med

Annette Hill
University of Westminster, UK
Centre for Communication and Information Studies
annetteh@netcomuk.co.uk

Research Interests
My main research interest is in television audiences. I am currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council funded project in television audiences and factual entertainment (Real TV, Routledge 2002). I am the co-author (with David Gauntlett) of TV Living (Routledge 1999) which charts the relationship between television and everyday life. I have also conducted research on audiences and media violence (Shocking Entertainment, John Libbey Media 1997).

Teaching Interests
I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Media Consumption, Communication Research Methods, and Audiences and Everyday Life. I manage our doctoral programme, and teach various workshops in relation to doctoral research in Media Studies.

Other Info
I am the editor of Framework: the Journal of Cinema and Media (www.frameworkonline.com) and the journal is always looking for new writers.

Victoria Johnson
University of California, Irvine
Department of Film and Media Studies,
Program in Visual Studies,
and Program in African American Studies
v.e.johnson@uci.edu

Research Interests
I publish research on topics related to broadcast history, social and critical history of U.S. television and film, sound-image relations in popular media, cultural studies, and race and popular media, and sport culture. My forthcoming Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (NYU Press) examines the imagination of the American middle-west as symbolic Heartland in critical moments in prime-time television and U.S. social history. I have published several articles regarding the politics of place, race, and popular music in anthologies and journals including The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Most of my research incorporates archival digging at sites such as the SHSW in Madison, WI, the Archive of Performing Arts at the University of Southern California, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and at the Museum of TV and Radio, among others.

Teaching Interests
History of Broadcasting; Race/Sport/Media Culture; "Branded" Identitites; Film and Media Theory; Undergraduate and Graduate Seminars in Critical Theory/History of TV, and in Cultural Studies;

Other Info
Prior to my appointment at UC Irvine, I was a Visitor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and held a faculty post at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Mary Celeste Kearney
University of Texas at Austin
Dept. of Radio-Television-Film
mkearney@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests
Gender and generation in media and popular culture. My work to date has focused on the representation of contemporary teenage girls in U.S. media, as well as girls' own media production (zines, films, websites, music) and the Riot Grrrl community. One of my future research projects is analyzing the industrial development of teen-girl media in the U.S. during the mid-twentieth century.

Teaching Interests
Critical media studies (film, television, popular music); cultural studies; gender studies; youth studies.

Other Info
Director of Cinemakids, a special program of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. Faculty Advisory Board Member for The Velvet Light Trap. Former chair of the SCMS Television Studies Interest Group.

Research Interests
My main interests center on the circulation of past popular cultures. I'm preparing a book (out by 2004...?) which traces the cultural and industrial development of reruns on US television. I'm also currently researching the culture of home video, and in particular the concept of "versions" (thankfully I have ready access to potentially every DVD in release...). Similarly, I'm interested in how past popular music is recycled in the present, and hope to develop this work into something more substantial down the line.

Teaching Interests
This fall I start the third year of my tenure-track position at TCU. I have a 3-3 load teaching both undergrads and grad students. My staple class is an intro-level History of Broadcasting, with around 80 students. At the undergrad level I've also taught a sophomore level critical approaches course, a few senior-level cultural studies-type television courses (on Television and Memory, and the Sitcom), and some screenwriting. At the graduate level I teach seminars on Technology, and Media Globalization. I have designed every course I have had at TCU, as well as helped shape our new undergraduate and graduate curriculum. I'll introduce the study of popular music to our course listings next spring. I'm also currently overseeing the Pedagogy Working Group of SCS-TV.

Other Info
I'm working with Diane Negra and others to increase the ties between the various media studies programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (i.e., scheduling conferences, etc.). I'm also exploring ways to raise issues of "media literacy" (for want of a more precise term) to more prominence on our campus and in our community, via lectures, screenings, and other events.

Amanda Lotz
University of Michigan
Dept. of Communication Studies
lotz@nd.edu

Research Interests
My first book, Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era (University of Illinois Press, 2006) explores the rise of female-centered dramas and cable networks targeted toward women in the late 1990s as they relate to changes in the U.S. television industry. Lately, I've been working on a project that explores the institutional changes negotiated within the U.S. television industry since the 1980s and their implications for the medium’s role as cultural institution. Somewhat related to this more institutional focus is research on television critics (those who write for mainstream press) and the upfront buying process and other advertising practices. I also continue to dabble in exploring postfeminist theory.

Teaching Interests
I primarily teach courses about media criticism and media institutions; gender and the media; feminist television studies; critical methods and analysis.

Other Info
For more, see my department's site at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/comm/faculty/

Research Interests
Cultural studies approaches to media, popular culture, and politics. My book on the political uses of cultural nostalgia, particularly on how contemporary America looks at the 50s and 60s, will be out in 2004 from Rutgers University Press. Working title: Happy Days and Wonder Years. Also interested in documentary, media history, alternative media, and public sphere issues.

Teaching Interests
I teach both studies and production courses. Studies: media theory, media history, cultural historiography, documentary. Production: video production (field and studio), writing.

Other Info
I got my Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies from Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, I worked on alternative media projects such as Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV, and edited ROAR! The Paper Tiger Guide to Media Activism.

Research Interests
My book, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (Sept. 01, UC Press) examines television (particularly television news) in relationship to film, literary production, and foreign policy (specifically US foreign policy in the Middle East in the postwar period). Television is important throughout the book, but particularly in chapters on the Iran Hostage crisis and the Gulf War. I am particularly interested in examining television as an intertextual medium, which makes meaning in part through its interaction with other forms of cultural and political production.

Teaching Interests
I teach US Media and Cultural History, a junior-senior level course, as well as graduate courses in cultural theory, media studies, and U.S. cultural history,

Other Info
I am on the board of Mediapede, a new organization aimed at providing a comprehensive database for television scholars. I also direct the Teaching History Through Film project at GW, which works with high school history teachers who want to use historical film in their classrooms.

Brett Mills
School of Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia, UK
brett.mills@uea.ac.uk

Research Interests
Popular television, especially comedy; television genres; humour and society; television and reality.

Teaching Interests
Television history; television sitcom; analysing television; television and reality.

Research Interests
I am currently working on revising a book project (based on dissertation) on television genre theory & history. Future projects include media historiography, a genealogy of discourses situating television as a cultural concept, and further work on television animation.

Teaching Interests
Courses at GSU included Critical History of Television, American Film & TV Industries, Television Genres, and Animated Film & TV. Future courses planned on Media Historiography and a graduate seminar on Issues in Communication (cultural theory stuff).

Other Info
Graduated from U-Wisconsin at Madison in summer 2000 - at Georgia State til 2002. Now at Middlebury College. Former editor of Velvet Light Trap.

Sharon Marie Ross
University of Texas at Austin
Radio-Television-Film
smross@concentric.net

Research Interests
I am currently working on completing a dissertation that examines the representation of female friendships in fantastic texts, focusing on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena Warrior Princess. I am interested in audience research and this is a part of the dissertation. My general academic interests surround gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in relation to film and television.

Teaching Interests
My teaching interests follow my research interests; I enjoy teaching from a critical cultural studies approach in the areas of film and television studies.

Other Info
I'm on the market, so keep me posted if anything seemingly appropriate emerges!

Nancy San Martín
University of California, Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness
nancysm@cats.ucsc.edu

television studies, queer studies, cultural studies, narrative theory, sexology, sex(uality) and popular culture

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
University of Arizona
Media Arts Department
berettas@u.arizona.edu

Research Interests
Revising book 'Shaded Lives African-American Women and Television' for publication in Spring 2002 (Rutgers UP). Future projects include completing a video documentary of Black women in visual culture; a book project on African diasporic religions and Hollywood; and another book project on mainstream Black women artists' reception in African-American communities

Teaching Interests
I teach television and film criticism and history with a focus on representations of gender, race, class, and sexuality

Other Info
I am taking an on-line 'introduction to new media' course with my colleagues at the U of A. We are preparing for an on-line media literacy certificate to be offered by Media Arts, Summer 2002. My class will be the on-line version of my 'Spike Lee and Black Film as Genre' course.

Janet Staiger
University of Texas at Austin
Radio-Television-Fim and Women's and Gender Studies
jstaiger@uts.cc.utexas.edu
http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/staiger

Research Interests
I continue to research poststructural and postfeminist/queer approaches to authorship studies, the historical reception of cinema and television programs, and cultural issues involving gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity. Current work includes the representation of gender (masculinity and queer studies), sexuality (sexually explicit films), and violence (slasher and horror film); causes for contemporary complex narratives; analyses of political filmmaking (Fahrenheit 9/11 and Good Night and Good Luck); analyses of and explanations for cult fan behavior; and (daring to enter into) the complex problem of revising genre theory in relation to audience affect and labeling practices.

Teaching
Recent graduate courses taught: Authorship, Reception Studies, Feminist and Queer Film Theory, Sexuality and U.S. Cinema, Representing Reality, Historiography. Recent undergraduate courses taught: Cult Movies and Gender Issues, Screen Theory [film, television, and new media], Gender and Sexuality Issues in the Media, Experimental Film and Video, Media and U.S. Political Conflict

Other Information
I have served on various national committees including the National Film Preservation Board and am past president of the Society for Cinema Studies. I also served as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies for the University of Texas at Austin, 2001-04.

Brian Taves
Library of Congress
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
btav@loc.gov

Research Interests
I am currently writing a book on Jules Verne and film, covering some 300 adaptations of his stories on the large and small screen, in all forms, not only features but also series, mini-series, animation, and so on. My goal is not to follow the usual pattern of concentrating on features, instead seeing television as equally if not more significant, and examining non-US tv adaptations of Verne. Also building on my 2001 SCS panel on the new action heroine in tv and movies.Finally, exploring further early 1950s filmed television and Hollywood, a topic I approached in my book on director Robert Florey.

Teaching Interests
I am an archivist in the Library of Congress, working with paper collections, including publicity, stills, and so on (was founding editor of the SCS Archival News column in Cinema Journal).

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