Faculty

Susan Murray

Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Susan Murray

Phone: 998-5645
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Research interests include: social and industrial histories of the media, visual culture, consumer culture, and the interrelationships between various media systems. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Visual Culture, Cinema Journal, Television and New Media as well as numerous anthologies. Murray is the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (Routledge, 2005) and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (NYU Press, 2004--second edition, 2008) with Laurie Ouellette. She is currently working on a project that places "user generated content" within the context of the history of visual amateur media and its relationship with commercial institutions.


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Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
  • M.A. New School for Social Research
  • B.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison

Publications

  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, Second Edition, co-edited with Laurie Ouellette (New York: New York University Press) 2008. (link)
  • Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (New York: Routledge) 2005. (link)
  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, co-edited with Laurie Ouellette (New York: New York University Press) 2004. (link)
  • “Digital Images, Photo-sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics”, Journal of Visual Culture Volume 7, no. 2, August 2008: 147-163. (link)
  • “TV as Spectacle,” The Television Industry Book, ed. Douglas Gomery and Luke Hockley (London: British Film Institute) 2006:106-108.
  • “’ I Think We Need a New Name for It’”: The Meeting of Documentary and Reality Television,” Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, eds. (New York: New York University Press) 2004: 40-56.
  • “’TV Satisfaction Guaranteed!’ Nick at Nite and TV Land’s Adult Attractions,” Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids, ed. Heather Hendershot (New York: New York University Press) 2004: 69-84.
  • "Ethnic Masculinity and Early Television’s Vaudeo Star," Cinema Journal 42, No. 1, Winter 2002: 97-119. (link)
  • “Our Man Godfrey: Arthur Godfrey and the Selling of Stardom in Early Television,” Television & New Media, August 2001: 187-203.

Awards

  • 2004 : AAUW American Postdoctoral Fellowship

Courses

  • Origins of Modern Media: 1880-1950
  • Media Analysis
  • Social Experiences in Consumer Culture
  • Television: History and Form
  • Integrated Liberal Arts: Reality and Documentary Television
  • The Sitcom