COURSES
CA 451 Television Criticism
Semiotics of Communication
Seminars in Media Theory, Cultural Studies, and Feminist Media Theory

DEGREES

• PhD., University of Wisconsin, 1988
  
• M.A. University of Wisconsin,1972
  
• B.A., Boston University, 1969

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

• Kiekhoffer Teaching Award
  
• Lilly Teaching Fellow
  
• Vilas Associate Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1994. Second printing, December 1995.

Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader, co-edited with Charlotte Brunsdon and Lynn Spigel, Oxford University Press, London, 1997.

Cultural Studies and Television, 2003, in progress

"Lifetime: Television for Women," Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, no. 33-34, Fall, 1995, special issue., editor and introduction.

"Nobody's Woman?--Honey West and the New Sexuality on Mid-Sixties TV," in Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin, eds., The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, Routledge, New York, 1997.

"US Television Documentary and Abortion Discourses: Leading up to Roe vs Wade," in Feminist Television Criticism, Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci and Lynn Spigel, eds., Oxford University Press, London, 1997.

"Women Characters and 'Real World Femininity,' in Television: The Critical View," sixth edition, Horace Newcomb, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

"Television Genres," in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Michael Schudson, ed., London: Elsevier Science Limited, 2001, in press.

"Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities," forthcoming, Jan Olsen and Lynn Spigel, eds., The Persistence of Television, Duke University, 2002.

"Television and Gender," forthcoming in Television Studies, Toby Miller, ed., London: BFI, 2002.