Lisa Henderson
- lhender@comm.umass.edu
- Telephone
- (413) 545-4759
- Personal website
- http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_staff/henderson.shtml
- Interests
- Cultural production, Politics of sexual representation
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
- Media / Production
Biography
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1983
B.A., Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 1980
Author of "Queer Communication Studies," "Simple Pleasures: Lesbian Community and Go Fish," "Storyline and the Multicultural Middlebrow: Reading Women’s Cultural on National Public Radio," "Communication Pedagogy and Political Practice" and "Directorial Intention and Persona in Film School." Current projects include essays on the queerness of televised sport and on the sexual mediation of class difference and hierarchy, and a book on studying cultural production.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Kevin G. Barnhurst, Lisa Henderson. Media Queered: Visibility and its Discontents. Peter Lang, 2007