Lesley Stevenson
Media and Cultural Studies
Fellow
she/her/hers
608-265-6909
2158 Vilas Hall
OFFICE HOURS
Spring 2024: TBA
COURSES TAUGHT
Current: CA 468: Producing for Internet TV and Video
- CA 100: Intro to Speech Composition (instructor of record)
- CA 155: Intro to Digital Media Production
- CA 250: Survey of Contemporary Media
- CA 468: Producing for Internet TV and Video (lecturer)
RESEARCH 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
“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, forthcoming 2024
“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, forthcoming 2024
SERVICE
Graduate School Dean’s Advisory Board (2023– , 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 Teaching Mentor (2023, 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)