Emily West
Female
- 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)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
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.