Popular Culture

BECCA CRAGIN, PH.D.
Associate Professor

Office Location: 237 Shatzel Hall
Office Phone Number: 419-372-7860
E-Mail: bcragin@bgsu.edu   
Website: http://beccacragin.blogspot.com/     

COURSES TAUGHT:
 
Undergraduate:
POPC 160: Introduction to Popular Culture
POPC 231: TV Sitcom
POPC 260: Popular Culture Research
POPC 350: Watching the Detectives: Gender, Crime, and the Media
POPC 460: Feminist TV Criticism
WS 200: Introduction to Women’s Studies
 
Graduate:
POPC 666: TV as Popular Culture
POPC 680: Feminism and Talk Shows
 
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D., Women's Studies, Emory University
M.A., Women's Studies, Emory University
B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology, Concentration in Women’s Studies, Swarthmore College

CURRENT DEPARTMENT SERVICE:
 Admissions committee
Library representative
Teaching assistant advisor

CURRENT UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE SERVICE:
American Culture Studies Program Affiliated Faculty
LGBTA Resource Center Faculty Resource
Women’s Studies Program Steering Committee
Women’s Studies Program Affiliated Faculty
Faculty Senate Women’s Caucus Member
Faculty Senator, Arts & Humanities Division
 
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Journal of Gender Studies reviewer
National Women’s Studies Association reviewer
Oxford University Press reviewer
 
CURRENT COMMUNITY SERVICE:
National, regional, and local, and institutional press interviews
 
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP:
Member, National Women's Studies Association
Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Member, Popular Culture Association
 
RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS:
 
Research interests:
Queer and feminist media studies
 
Publications:

Cragin, Becca (2008, forthcoming) “The (Not So) Good Old Days: Race and Sexuality on Old-Style Talk Shows” (in press at Popular Culture Review)

Cragin, Becca (2006) Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by Ilana Nash, in The Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 286-288

Cragin, Becca (2005) “Lesbians and Serial TV: Ellen Finds Her Inner Adult” in The New Queer Aesthetic on Television: Essays on Recent Programming, eds. James Keller and Leslie Stratyner, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, pp. 193-208

Cragin, Becca (2005) Review of Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture by Eva Illouz, in The Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 78-80

Cragin, Becca (2000) “Compulsory Heterosexuality” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, p. 200

Cragin, Becca (2000) “Lesbian Continuum” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, p. 456

Cragin, Becca (2000) “Woman-Identified-Woman” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, pp. 807-808

Cragin, Becca and Simonds, Wendy (1999) “The Study of Gender in Culture: Feminist Studies/Cultural Studies” in Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, ed. Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Plenum, New York, pp. 195-212 [primary author]

Cragin, Becca (1997) “Post-Lesbian-Feminism: Documenting ‘Those Cruddy Old Dykes of Yore’” in Carryin’ On in the Lesbian and Gay South, ed. John Howard, New York University, New York, pp. 285-327