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Emily West

Female
E-Mail
ewest@comm.umass.edu
Telephone
(413) 545-6345
Personal website
http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_staff/west.shtml
Interests
Language and Discourse, Advertising, Popular culture, Consumer culture

Role(s)
Researcher


Current Institutional Affiliation(s)


Discipline(s)

  • Communications

Biography

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2004
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2000
B.A., McMaster University, 1997


Author or co-author of "Greeting Cards: Individuality and Authenticity in Mass Culture"; "Selling Canada to Canadians: Collective Memory, National Identity, and Popular Culture"; "The Press as Agents of Nationalism in the Queen's Golden Jubilee: How British Newspapers Celebrated a Media Event." Current research focuses on American cheerleading and the performance of gender and the commodification of sentiment in consumer culture.