Melissa Ames
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Champaign, IL, United States |
| Introduction | Melissa Ames is an Associate Professor at Eastern Illinois University specializing in media studies, television scholarship, popular culture, Internet Studies, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Her most recent and forthcoming publications include her books, Women and Language: Gendered Communication Across Media (McFarland, 2011), Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in 21st Century Programming (University of Mississippi Press, 2012), and How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life: From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl (Palgrave, 2016); chapters in Grace Under Pressure: Grey’s Anatomy Uncovered (2008), Writing the Digital Generation (2010), Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Twilight Saga (2010), Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation (2018); Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom(2018), Computers & Writing Proceedings (2018), Manufacturing Phobias (2016), and articles in The Journal of Dracula Studies (2011), The Women and Popular Culture Encyclopedia (2012), The High School Journal (2013), The Journal of Popular Culture (2014), Feminist Media Studies (2017), and Pedagogy (2017). |