Jennifer Clark

Ph.D., University of Southern California

414B Lowenstein
212-636-8254
djeclark@fordham.edu

 
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Film
Understanding TV

Jennifer Clark is a recent transplant to New York by way of Ohio farm country and Los Angeles. In many ways, her research interests in popular media representations of rural/urban spaces and women’s identities stem from this migration. 

She is currently working on articles about the gender politics of masculine ennui in The Sopranos and Mad Men; female news workers in early TV; and the creation of sports celebrity on television, with case studies including Billie Jean King and the wrestler Gorgeous George.

She is also developing a book based on her dissertation, which examines the relationship between the American Women’s Liberation Movement and the film and television industries of the 1970s. 


Publications:
“Liberating Bi-Centennial America: Imagining the Nation through TV Superwomen of the Seventies” in Television & New Media (forthcoming)
“Producing Television,” Spectator, Spring 2008 28:1 (editor)
Writing Lives, Reading Communities, Pearson/McGraw-Hill, 2000 (co-edited with Kay Halasek et. al.)