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Meghan Sutherland
Assistant Professor of Screen Studies
PhD, Northwestern University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Media and Performance Theory
- Politics of American Television & Popular Culture
- Continental Philosophy
- Experimental Film and Video
- Spectacular Aesthetics
- Horror
- Nonfiction Media Aesthetics, esp. Documentary/Reality, Performance Art, and Election Campaign Coverage
Selected Publications
The Flip Wilson Show (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008).
“What Is Variety?” Cultural Studies, Special Double Issue on Ernesto Laclau’s On Populist Reason, eds. Robert Harriman and Dilip Gaonkar (forthcoming, 2009).
“Rigor/Mortis: The Political Life of Zombie Cinema,” Framework 48, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
“Haneke’s Television,” in On Michael Haneke, eds. Brian Price and John-David Rhodes ( Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming).
“‘We Are All New Yorkers Now’: Television and Disaster Cosmopolitanism, from Lower Manhattan to the Lower-Ninth Ward,” in The Place of the Moving Image, eds. John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel (under review).
“The Comic Visualized, or Laughing at Shallow Hal,” Senses of Cinema 33 (Oct.-Dec. 2004): http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/33/shallow_hal.html.
“The Accident Museum, Accidentally,” Framework 45, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 102-108.
Honors & Offices
- Co-editor of World Picture, an online journal of cultural theory and media
- Co-founder and co-organizer of the Annual World Picture Conference at Oklahoma State University
Recent Conference Presentations
"Party Platforms: Internet Voting and Online Video,” Workshop on “Videophiles and the Digital Archive,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007.
“Figurative Theory,” First Annual Framework Conference, Oklahoma StateUniversity, Stillwater, OK, November 2006.
“Rigor/Mortis: Structure and Politics in Zombie Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.
“Flow, or the History of Theory in Television Studies,” Workshop on “A Future for Theory,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.
Current Research & Projects
I am currently revising my dissertation on the spectacular aesthetics of variety entertainment for a book. I am also beginning a few new projects dealing with issues such as contemporary disaster coverage, the advent of YouTube presidential campaigning, and the notion of performance on reality television.
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