Jimmy Draper

Current Teaching

Fall 2022

• COMM 340: Gender & the Media (Req: Humanities)
• COMM 305: Fashion & Media
• COMM 451 & 491: Senior Thesis & Senior Honors Thesis Seminar

Winter 2023

• COMM 251: Understanding Media Industries (Req: SS)
• COMM 452 & 492: Senior Thesis & Senior Honors Thesis Seminar

Future TBA

• COMM 473: Media Fandom (Req: Capstone)
• COMM 375: Sports, Media, & Culture (Req: ULWR)

Publications 

• Lawson, C. E. & Draper, J. (2021). Working the red carpet: A framework for analysing celebrities' red carpet labour. Celebrity Studies, 12(4): 635-648.

• Draper, J. & McDonnell, A. M. (2018). Fashioning multiplatform masculinities: Gay personal style bloggers’ strategies of gendered self-representation across social media. Men & Masculinities, 21(5): 645-664.

• Draper, J. (2017). “What has she actually done??!”: Gay men, diva worship, and the paratextualization of gay-rights support. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(2): 130-137. ‘Paratexts, Promos, and Publicity’ special issue, guest editor J. Gray.

• Draper, J. (2014). Theorizing creative agency through “discerned savvy”: A tool for the critical study of media industries. Media, Culture, & Society, 36(8): 1118-1133. 

• Draper, J. & Lotz, A. D. (2012). “Working through” as ideological intervention: The case of homophobia in Rescue Me. Television & New Media, 13(6): 520-534.

• Draper, J. (2012). Idol speculation: Queer identity and a media-imposed lens of detection. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media & Culture, 10(3): 201-216.

• Draper, J. (2010). “Gay or not?!”: Gay men, straight masculinities, and the construction of the Details audience. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 27(4): 357-375.