Associate Provost for Academic Administration and Faculty Affairs
Professor of Film and New Media
Education
Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
About
Main Interests
- changes in higher education, especially liberal arts education
- digital humanities
- fan studies
- digital literacy, computational thinking, data literacy & data visualization
- participatory cultures, social media, fandom, relationship between technology and culture
- DIY, making & makerspaces, disruptive innovation
- US film history, especially the Hollywood studio system and the New Hollywood
Publications
Canon Fodder: Fanfiction metadata and what mining it can tell us about fandom. Work in process.
“I’m not really a ‘fan’, but…”: Fandom, Learning and the Future of Higher Education.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, May 28, 2019. (https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/05/im-not-really-a-fan-but/)
“Undisciplined and Beyond Content: Teaching Fan Studies to the Academy.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, March 26, 2019. (https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/03/undisciplined-and-beyond-content-teaching-fan-studies-to-the-academy-josh-stenger-wheaton-college-massachusetts/)
“Fandom, Fan Studies, and the New Education.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, January 29, 2019. (https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/01/fandom-and-the-new-education/)
“Mapping the Beach: Beach Movies, Exploitation Film and Geographies of Whiteness.” The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Ed. by Daniel Bernardi. London: Routledge, 2007. 28-50.
“Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal.” Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader. Ed. by Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007. 539-549.
“The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay.” Cinema Journal. Vol. 45, no. 4 (Summer 2006). 26-44.
“Consuming the Planet: Planet Hollywood, Stars, and the Global Consumer Culture.” Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Ed. by Thomas Schatz. London: Routledge, 2003. 346-366 (in Volume IV: Cultural Dimensions: Ideology, Identity and Culture Industry Studies).
“Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal.” Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. Ed. by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice. London: Blackwell, 2001. 59-72
“Lights, Camera, Faction: (Re)Producing Los Angeles at Universal’s CityWalk.” Hollywood Goes Shopping. Ed. by David Desser & Garth Jowett. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 277-308
“Consuming the Planet: Planet Hollywood, Stars, and the Global Consumer Culture.” Velvet Light Trap, #40 (Fall 1997). 42-55
Teaching Interests
Courses I currently teach include:
Film Studies
ENG 249: Hollywood Genres
ENG 250: Film History I – Cinema through 1940
ENG 257: Race & Racism in U.S. Cinema
ENG 348: Sexual Politics of Film Noir
New Media
FNMS 231: Introduction to New Media
ENG 331: Digital Culture
FNMS 244: Visualizing Cultural Data
Only offered during summer session. Co-taught with Tom Armstrong
Other
ENG 101: Writing in the Digital Age
First Year Seminar
FNMS 401: Senior Seminar
FNMS 401: Senior Seminar
Research Interests
- The relationship between cinematic representation, race and urban space (with specific attention to how this is expressed through/in Hollywood film and Los Angeles)
- Fandom and transmedia storytelling
- The geohistory of film exhibition in the US
- The impact of digital technologies on the creative industries
- The impact of digital technologies on higher education, pedagogy, scholarly research and publishing
- Affinity communities, shared knowledge and collective intelligence
Department(s)
Program(s)
Office
Park Hall Room 108
Hours
By appointment