Associate Professor
About
Hollis Griffin teaches and researches television, new media and cultural politics, particularly as they intersect with affect, sexuality, and questions of space/place. His book, Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age (Indiana, 2017), was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by Choice, the publication of the American Library Association. Hollis has published research in New Media & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Popular Communication, Television & New Media, Journal of Popular Film and Television and the anthologies The Companion to Reality Television (Wiley) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. His next major project examines the role of television in the gentrification of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. Hollis is active in the field of media studies, having served as Associate Editor for the journal Communication, Culture, and Critique, as well as on the editorial boards of Television & New Media, Film Criticism and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, where he was Secretary.
