Caryn Murphy
Assistant Professor
Office: A/C W208
Phone: 424-3132
Email: murphyc@uwosh.edu
Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. in Radio, Television and Film, University of North Texas
Caryn Murphy teaches courses in history and criticism, including History of Cinema, Radio and TV and Race, Class and Gender in American Media. My research focuses on constructions of gender in film and television. My recent publications examine contemporary television and negotiations of feminism and postfeminism. She is currently researching serial narratives in 1960s television.
Recent Publications
“‘Bitches Get Stuff Done’: Gender Politics in the Tina Fey Era,” In Beyond Saturday Night: Saturday Night Live and American Television Culture, eds. Ron Becker, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2012
“‘The Girl You’ve Always Wanted to Be!’: Girl Power and Commodity Postfeminism in Teen Magazines,” Fleeting Images, ed. Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Lexington Books, forthcoming 2012
“Feminist Revenge Epic or Male Fantasy? Reading the Reception of the Millennium Trilogy,” Feminist Perspectives on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, eds. Carrie Lee Smith and Donna King, Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming 2012
“Getting Even: Feminist Agency and Postfeminist Containment in Girl Power Narratives,” MP: A Feminist Online Journal, Winter 2010
Recent Presentations
“Teen Momism on MTV: Postfeminist Subjectivities in 16 and Pregnant”
Cultural Studies Association Conference
Chicago, IL, March 24-26, 2011
“Black Panthers in Peyton Place: Integrating the Prime-Time Soap Opera”
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference
New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2011
“Love in Peyton Place: Pushing the Limits of Content in the Prime-Time Soap Opera”
Film & History Conference
Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 11-14, 2010
“Remodeling Television”
Flow Conference
Austin, TX, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010
