Nathan Workman
Media and Cultural Studies
Graduate Teaching Assistant
He/Him/His
608-265-4856
2151 Vilas Hall

Nathan is a PhD candidate who studies new media’s capacity for queer expression. His dissertation explores how multiple forms of Internet-distributed television continue and challenge ways gender and sexual identity is produced, represented and experienced within the streaming television era.
Education
M.A. Humanities, Old Dominion University, 2020
B.A. English, Old Dominion University, 2017
Instructor of Record
• CA 351 – Television Industries (Lecturer)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
• CA 313 – Music Video From MTV to TikTok
• CA 346 – Critical Internet Studies
• CA 250 – Survey of Contemporary Media
Grader
• CA 450 – Cultural History of Broadcasting
• CA 458 – Producing for Internet TV and Video
Service
• The Velvet Light Trap
Managing Editor, 2024–2025 (#96: Continuity and Change in Media Representation)
Coordinating Editor, 2023–2024 (#94: Creative Labor and Precarity)
Editorial Board Member, 2022–present
• Peabody Awards Screening Committee: Television and Entertainment Category, 2022-2023
• Tidewater Queer History Project | ODU, Norfolk VA 2018–2020