- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Turn Within: Self Absorption, the Media, and the Fate of America'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/30/2005 - 01/30/2005
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Susan J. Douglas, Communication Studies
Documentary and Film Series
- Detailed Information: Professor Douglas has been with the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan since 1996. In 1999 she was awarded the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship for her outstanding contribution to undergraduate education. Professor Douglas is currently serving as chair of the department. She has written many books including The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it has Undermined Women (with Meredith Michaels), Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media; Inventing American Broadcasting; and Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, which won the 2000 Sally Hacker Popular Book Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. Her column “Back Talk” appears in In These Times every month.
