Lesley Stevenson

OFFICE HOURS

Fall 2025: Tuesdays, 12:00–1:00p.m.

COURSES TAUGHT

• CA 100: Intro to Speech Composition (instructor of record)
• CA 155: Intro to Digital Media Production (TA)
• CA 250: Survey of Contemporary Media (TA)
• CA 323: The Business & Culture of Disney (lecturer)
• CA 468: Producing for Internet TV and Video (lecturer)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dissertation focus: the intersection of media labor and identity, particularly at the early-career level

Other interests: Entertainment, media, and theatre industries; industry lore; identity; precarious and early-career labor; politicians and celebrities; media authorship; media and entertainment history and historiography

PUBLICATIONS

• “Vanderpump Rules and the Labor of ‘Real’ Life,” by Lesley Stevenson, ASAP/J, August 2024
• “Writers and Actors Can Strike, But Not Their Assistants: On Paying ‘Real Money’ for Unskilled Labor,” by Lesley Stevenson, In Media Res, October 2023
• “What the Constitution Means to Me, Now that Roe Is Dead: Finding Hopeful Solidarity in the Anzaldúan Nepantla,” by Lesley Stevenson, Theatre Topics, July 2023 (PDF)
• “Love, Links, Archives: Saving and Sharing the Wendy Clarke Tape Collection,” by Eric Hoyt, Mary Huelsbeck, Amanda Smith, Lauren E. Wilks, and Lesley Stevenson, The Moving Image, 2025
• “Searching for Similarity: Computational Analysis and the U.S. Film Industry Trade Press of the Early 1920s,” by Eric Hoyt, Ben Pettis, Lesley Stevenson, and Samuel Hansen, Global Movie Magazine Networks, 2025

SERVICE

Media Industries SIG Grad Rep (2024– , Society for Cinema & Media Studies)
Graduate School Dean’s Advisory Board (Member 2023–2025; Chair 2025– , UW–Madison)
Associated Students of Madison (2023– , UW–Madison)
College of Letters & Science Lead Teaching Mentor (Fall 2024, UW–Madison)
College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor (Fall 2023 & Spring 2024, UW–Madison)
College of Arts & Letters Advisory Council (2018–2022, Notre Dame)

EDUCATION

M.A. Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2021
B.A. Film, Television & Theatre and American Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2016

AWARDS & HONORS

College of Letters & Science Lead Teaching Mentor (2024, UW–Madison)
College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor (2023–24, UW–Madison)
Helen K. Herman Award (2023, UW–Madison)
Wickhem Award (2022, UW–Madison)
Sites Award (2020, UW–Madison)
Joseph P. O’Toole Award for Excellence in Film Studies (2016, Notre Dame)
Phi Kappa Phi (2023)
Phi Beta Kappa (2016)