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Maureen Ryan
| Title: | Research Associate Professor / Film and Media Associate Director, Humanities Collaborative |
| McCausland College of Arts and Sciences | |
| Email: | maureenryan@sc.edu |
| Office: | McMaster 221 |
Biography
Maureen Ryan (she/her) is a media historian who researches and teaches classes on television, film, and digital media. She is an affiliate
faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies department, and also serves as the
Associate Director of USC's Humanities Collaborative.
Her work explores how television and other forms of media have represented women's
labor and everyday lives, the cultural politics of lifestyle media, and the history
of television and digital platforms. She is the author of Lifestyle Media in American Culture: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor, with Jessalynn Keller, of Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture (Routledge, 2018). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Feminist Media Histories, and Television & New Media. She earned her PhD from Northwestern University in 2014.
Her current project is a monograph, under contract with Rutgers University Press, called A Cup of Ambition: Women at Work in Broad Comedies. It explores women's work and labor politics as they are represented in 1980s and 1990s Hollywood film.
Courses
MART 110: Media Culture
FAMS 240: Film and Media Analysis
FAMS 332: American Television
FAMS 383: Documentary Studies