Education
| PhD | UCLA, Film and Television |
Publications
TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Duke University Press, 2001)
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life (Duke University Press, forthcoming)
Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology and Social Space (co-edited, University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
Feminist Television Reader (co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2007 and second edition 2010)
Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition (co-edited, Duke University Press, 2005).
The Revolution Wasn’t Televised: Sixties Television and Social Transition (co-edited, Routledge, 1997)
Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (co-edited, Minnesota University Press, 1992, reprinted by Duke University Press)
Close Encounters: Feminism and Science Fiction (co-edited, University of Minnesota Press and reprinted by Duke University Press, 1991)
Recent Articles in Harvard Design Magazine, Screen, Cinemas, Cinema Journal, Public Culture
Work translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Polish.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship; International Communication Association Book Fellows Award; IKKM Senior Fellowship, Bauhaus University; Selected and interviewed as Field Pioneer by Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Field Notes); Choice Award (Books in Communication:; Honorable Mention (2nd place) SCMS Kitty Kovacs book award; Fulbright Lecturer; Mellon Lecturer; Keynote Speaker and Lectures at such venues as the Screen Conference in Glasgow, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University; Warwick University; Whitney Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, University of Paris (2); University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University; UC Berkeley; Princeton University; Stanford University; University of Buenos Aries.
Courses
TV and Media Theory; Science Fiction Film and Television; Media Historiography; Television History; Girl Culture; Media and Everyday Life; Television and Art; Cold War Visual Culture; Cultural Theory, Media and Theories of Social Space.
