Bernadette Bowen
Name: Bernadette "bird" Bowen
Email: babowen@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Munster, IN
Education:
M.A. Communication, Purdue University NW
B.A. Sociology, Communication Minor, Purdue University NW
Expected Graduation Date: May 2022
SMC Emphasis: Critical Media Studies & Rhetoric
Bernadette is a published poet and PhD ABD whose research interests intersect the broad fields of critical and feminist theories, with an eye towards the ideological struggle between institutions, gender, sexuality, and media ecology. Her dissertation project entitled "From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: Understanding Sexual Ecologies in the Algorithmic Age" is a critical feminist and media ecological analysis of biomimetic sextech device advertisements marketed to vulva-havers. In 2019 she was awarded the SMC Harold & Elaine Fisher Award, awarded first and second place in the Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Graduate Essay Contest two years in a row, and the 2019 Media Ecology Association Top Convention Paper. Her academic publications include #WhatNext: Political Implications of the #MeToo Campaign Aftermath in Maria Marron’s Misogyny Across Global Media volume, The Role of Sassy Socialist Memes in Leftbook in the journal Explorations in Media Ecology (EME), and "Put it in the Box and No One Gets Hurt?”: Unpacking the Lovebox in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society.
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