Jennifer Fuller
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jfuller@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.140
Phone: 512.471.4571
Hours: Tu 1-3 PM
Professor Fuller is a media historian whose research focuses on race, gender, and national identity. In particular, she is interested in representations of blackness throughout the history of broadcasting and cable. She has a Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a former journalist, and has a B.A. in journalism from the University of South Carolina. Professor Fuller is a faculty affiliate for the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and the Center for African and African-American Studies. She is working on a manuscript for Rutgers University Press on fictional representations of the civil rights movement. Part of this work has been published in the anthology The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006). Her writing has also appeared in several newspapers, The Velvet Light Trap, and the online journal Flow.
Professor Fuller is the course supervisor for Race, Ethnicity and the Media (RTF/COM 316M). This lower-level course introduces students to theories for understanding race and representation, the intersection of race and other aspects of identity (such as gender and nation), and the relationship between race and the workings of media industries. Professor Fuller has developed two upper-level undergraduate courses: Post-Network Television (RTF 355) and Race, National Identity, and the Media (RTF 359). Post-Network Television examines changes in the industry and programming since the rise of the Fox network and cable in the 1980s. Race, National Identity, and the Media looks at how race and "American-ness" have been portrayed in the mass media. It also looks at how the mass media help to create a sense of American identity. This course is crosslisted with Women & Gender Studies and African and African American Studies, and is part of the College of Communication's Latino Media Studies program. On the graduate level, Professor Fuller teaches courses on race and representation, such as Critical Analysis of Race and Representation (RTF 384C), and Race, Nation, and Media (RTF 386). Professor Fuller was the 2008 winner of the College of Communication's Teaching Excellence Award.
