President, 2023 – 2025
President-Elect, 2021 – 2023

Biography

Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has served as Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies. Prior to her appointment at UC Irvine she held faculty positions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Visiting) and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was Wolf Visiting Professor of Television Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.

Degrees

Ph.D., Cinema-Television, University of Southern California M.A., Cinema-Television, University of Southern California B.A., Cinema Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching and Research Interests

U.S. television history and theory, cultural geography, critical race theory, sports media and the media industries, media/sports built-environment, communication policy, and law, communication technology and rural access, film sound/music.

Selected Publications

Sports TV. New York: Routledge, 2021.

"Sporting Community: Activism and Responsibility in Turbulent Times," Television & New Media 21.6 (September 2020): 590-596.

"More Than a Game: LeBron James and the Affective Economy of Place." in Racism Postrace, eds. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Roopali Mukherjee, and Herman Gray. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, 154-177.

"Cultural Geography." The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice. NY: Routledge, 2018, 231-241.

Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity. New York: NYU Press, 2008.

Other Activities and Awards

Associate Editor, Television and New Media (2018-present)

Co-Editor (with Travis Vogan), Studies in Sports Media series, University of Illinois Press (2014-present)

School of Humanities Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine, 2012

Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, SCMS, Heartland TV, 2009

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

President-Elect, 2021–2023
Conference Program Chair, SCMS Conference 2023, Denver, CO
Chair, Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award Selection Committee, 2019–2020
Secretary, 2015–2018
Chair, Nominating Committee, 2012–2014
Member, Nominating Committee, 2011–2012
Member, Conference Program Committee, SCMS Conference 2011, New Orleans, LA
Board of Directors, 2008-2011 Chair, Professional Development Committee, 2007–2008
Member, Professional Development Committee, 2006–2007
Television Studies Interest Group Steering Committee, 2000–2004
Member, Committee on Career Opportunity, Development, and Promotion, 2000–2003

Contact

Department of Film and Media Studies
University of California, Irvine
2000 Humanities Gateway Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2435

v.e.johnson@scmstudies.org

Pronouns: she/her/hers