Becca Cragin Assistant Professor, Popular Culture Ph.D., Women's Studies, Emory University   Office: 201 Popular Culture Building Phone: 419-372-7860 Research Interests: Queer and feminist media studies Recent and Reoccurring courses: Undergraduate: “Introduction to Popular Culture,” “TV Sitcoms,” “Watching the Detectives: Gender, Crime, and the Media,” “Feminist TV Criticism,” “Introduction to Women's Studies” Graduate: “TV as Popular Culture,”“Feminism and Talk Shows” Selected Publications: "Lesbians and Serial TV: Ellen Finds Her Inner Adult," Queer TV. Eds. James Keller and Leslie Strayner (McFarland, forthcoming 2005) Review of Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture by Eva Illouz, Journal of Gender Studies. 14.1 (March 2005). "Post-Lesbian-Feminism: Documenting 'Those Cruddy Old Dykes of Yore'" "The Study of Gender in Culture: Feminist Studies/Cultural Studies" (with Wendy Simonds) "Compulsory heterosexuality," woman-identified-woman," and "lesbian continuum" in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures (2000)   E-mail: bcragin Departmental Faculty Page