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Stacy Takacs
Associate Professor of American Studies
PhD, Indiana University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Contemporary American Literature and Culture
- American Cultural Studies
- TV Studies
- Media and Globalization
Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught
- Graduate Seminar in Screen Studies: Convergence and Control
- Graduate Seminar in Film and Society: TV Studies
- American Popular Culture
- Television Studies
- Television and Gender
- Gender and Popular Culture
- Globalization and American Culture
- The Hollywood Genre Film: Science Fiction
- Science, Technology and American Culture
- Theories and Methods of American Studies
- Senior Seminar in American Studies
Selected Publications
"The Contemporary Politics of the Western Form: Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood." Forthcoming in the volume Reframing 9/11: Popular Culture and the War On Terror. Continuum Press, 2010.
"Making Globalization Ordinary. Teaching Globalization in the AMST Classroom." Forthcoming in American Studies.
"Burning Bush: Sitcom Treatments of the Bush Presidency." Forthcoming in Journal of Popular Cuture.
"The Body of War and the Management of Imperial Anxiety on US TV." International Journal Of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. Special Issue: The Iraq War in Film and Media. 3.1 (2009): 85-105.
"Monsters, Monsters Everywhere: Spooky TV and the Politics of Fear in Post-9/11 America."Science Fiction Studies. 36.1 (March 2009): 1-20.
“Terror TV: Challenging the Terror Paradigm in Post-9/11 US Entertainment Programming.” In Interrogating the War on Terror. Ed. Deborah Staines. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 144-156.
"Jessica Lynch and the Regeneration of American Power and Identity Post-9/11." Feminist Media Studies 5.3 (Nov. 2005): 297-310.
--Reprinted in Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History. Eds. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. University Press of Kentucky, Nov. 2008. 488-510.
“Speculations on a New Economy: La Femme Nikita, the Series.” Cultural Critique 61 (Fall 2005): 148-185.
Recent Grants or Research Trips
- OSU English Dept. Travel Grant 2008
- OSU English Dept. Junior Faculty Research Release 2007
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award 2006
- OSU English Dept. Travel Grant 2005
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Grant 2005
- Dean’s Incentive Grant 2003
- Dean’s Incentive Grant 2004
Recent Conference Presentations
“Redeeming Civilization on the Iraqi Frontier: The War on Terrorism as Global Race War.” The Cultural Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO. April 16-18, 2009.
"American Heroism and Imperial Melancholia Post-9/11." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA. March 6-9, 2008.
"TV Terror and the War on Terror." American Studies Association Conference. Oakland, CA. October 12-15, 2006.
"Off to War with the Troops: Reality Militainment and Infowar?" The Film and History League Conference. Dallas, TX. November 8-12, 2006.
“The New Western and the Compulsion Toward Empire Post-9/11.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Vancouver, BC. March 2-5, 2006.
“Terror TV.” American Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. Nov. 11-14, 2004.
“Burning Bush: TV’s Comic Turn on a Tragic Administration.” Popular and American Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, TX. April 7-10, 2004.
“Saving Private Lynch, or How America Learned to Love the War in Iraq.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Atlanta, GA. March 4-7, 2004.
Current Research & Projects
My research interest is in the study of the interrelationship between US television and US imperial politics in the contemporary era. I consider TV to be a key site within which an imaginary relation to an ideal “America” is constructed for US citizens and others in the world and argue that this construction has taken new forms suited to the realities of global interconnection. It was this idea of “America” that was attacked on 9/11 and this idea of “America” that was reinvigorated in the wake of this attack, so it is this idea that must be interrogated if we are to understand and improve global relations for the 21st century. I am currently at work on a manuscript addressing the function of entertainment television in the manufacturing of consent for the so-called War on Terror. I have published several articles addressing the representation of political and social issues like nationalism, globalization, and the New Economy in contemporary US television.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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