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Tara McPherson

Pop culture expert specializing in film and television, media technologies and race and gender in the media
  • Chair, critical studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts
  • Associate professor of critical studies
  • Associate professor of gender studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-3330
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Expertise

  • race and gender in media
  • popular film and television
  • new technologies, especially the Internet, TiVo, etc.
  • video games and learning
  • regional U.S. studies, especially the South

Additional Information

  • Author of the award-wining Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Place and Femininity in the South (2003)
  • Editor of Hop on Pop: Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture (2003) and Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a New Vernacular, a multimedia online journal
  • Co-organizer, USC-MIT Race in Digital Space and Interactive Frictions Conferences
  • Board member, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science + Technology Advanced Collaboratory)