Tag popular culture

Marie-Louise Mares

Associate professor, communication arts

Expert on children and media, pro-social/educational TV, media use among older adults

Tino Balio

Professor emeritus, communication arts; founding executive director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute

Expert on history of American film industry

Ed Churchwell

Professor emeritus, astronomy

Expert on star formation, infrared and radio astronomy, issues of extraterrestrial life

Michael Schatzberg

Professor, political science

Expert on African politics, African international relations and comparative political culture

Jonathan Gray

Professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts

Expert on contemporary television, audiences, comedy and convergence

Adam L. Kern

Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, Department of Asian Languages & Culture

Specializing in Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, particularly manga (Japanese-styled comics) and haiku.

Jeff Smith

Professor, communication arts

Expert on postwar American cinema, music in film and the Hollywood blacklist

Anja Wanner

Professor, English

Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)

Derek Johnson

Assistant professor, communication arts

Expert on media industries, creative collaboration, and the production of popular culture

Lori Lopez

Associate Professor

Expert within media studies on race/ethnicity and activism

Jenell Johnson

Assistant professor, communication arts; faculty affiliate, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies

Expert on the rhetoric of science, medicine, disability, and the "neuroscientific turn."

Jeremy Morris

Assistant professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts

Expert on the current state of the music industry, digital music technologies, music and the Internet

Emily Callaci

Assistant professor, history

Historian of East Africa in the twentieth century, with a research focus on rural-urban migration.

Sarah Marty

Lecturer, Bolz Center for Arts Administration & Program Director, Madison Early Music Festival, Division of the Arts

Arts entrepreneur, arts management educator, performing arts professional, nonprofit arts and cultural leadership, production manager for campus and community events

Vlad Dima

Assistant Professor, French & Italian Department

Expert on West African, French, and Hollywood cinemas.

Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn

Professor, marketing; Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Chair in Marketing Research

Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,

Laura Buyan Dent

Associate Professor of Neurology

Treats movement disorders, works with artists affected by neurological conditions that affect performance

Patrick Rumble

Professor, Department of French and Italian

Expert on modern Italian cinema, culture and society in European context.

Ramzi Fawaz

Assistant Professor of English

I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.

Alex Wiedenhoeft

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany

Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany

Lisa Rand

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities

Expert on the past and present of space technology and space junk, history of gender and technology, planetary analogs

William Cox

Assistant Scientist, Department of Psychology

Expert on stereotyping, prejudice, and implicit bias — how the brain's learning processes perpetuate them, and evidence-based interventions to overcome them