September 2011 Curriculum Vitae

C. Lee Harrington, PhD Professor of Sociology Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Affiliate Miami University

Address

Office: Home: Department of Sociology & Gerontology 10 Ridge Avenue 375 Upham Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056 (USA) Miami University 513-523-9318 Oxford, Ohio 45056 (USA) email: [email protected] office: 513-529-2628 fax: 513-529-8525

Education

1990 PhD Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California Major advisor: Thomas J. Scheff 1988 MA Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California (Honors) 1986 BA Sociology, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Employment

2003-present Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Miami University 2003-2008 Chair, Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University 1996-2003 Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies Program Affiliate, Miami University Fall 1996 Core Instructor, Women’s Studies Instructor, Institute for Shipboard Education (Semester at Sea), University of Pittsburgh 1990-1996 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies Program Affiliate, Miami University 1988-1990 Instructor, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara

Research areas

media studies, fan/audience studies, sociology of law

Courses taught

social stratification, introduction to social justice studies, sociology of gender, human sexuality, gender and aging, sociology capstone, sociology of death, self and society

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Dissertations supervised

 Jackie Manning-Dantis, gerontology doctoral student, Miami University (in progress)  Pamela Brown, gerontology doctoral student, Miami University (co-chair; in progress)

Books (authored)

Bielby, D. D. and C. L. Harrington. (2008). Global TV: Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market. New York: New York University Press (257 pps.).

Harrington, C. L. and D. D. Bielby. (1995). Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (225 pps.).

Books (edited)

De Kosnik, A., S. Ford and C.L. Harrington, Editors. (2010). The Survival of Soap Operas: Strategies for a New Media Era. University Press of Mississippi (331 pps.).

Gray, J., C. Sandvoss and C. L. Harrington, Editors. (2007). Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. New York: New York University Press (397 pps.).

Harrington, C. L. and D. D. Bielby, Editors. (2001). Popular Culture: Production and Consumption. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (348 pps.).

Journals (edited)

Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (2006-2011). Official journal of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-editor with C. Sandvoss and J. Gray.

Refereed journal articles

Harrington, C.L., Bielby, D.D., and Bardo, Anthony R. (Forthcoming). “Life Course Transitions and the Future of Fandom.” International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Harrington, C.L., Reece, Heather R. and Muschert, Glenn W. (Forthcoming). “Setting, Speaking and Framing in the News Discourse of Elected Executions: A Play in Three Acts.” Fast Capitalism, 8(1).

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby (2010). “Autobiographical Reasoning in Long-Term Fandom.” Transformative Works and Cultures 5, published online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0209

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Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington (2010). “Global TV 2010: Update of the World Market for Television.” Popular Communication 8(3): 217-221.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby (2010). “A Life Course Perspective on Fandom.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 13(5): 1-22.

Harrington, C.L. and Brothers, D. (2010). “A Life Course Built for Two: Acting, Aging, and Soap Operas.” Journal of Aging Studies 24: 20-29.

Muschert, G.W., Harrington, C.L. and Reece, H. R. (2009). “Elected Executions in the U.S. Print News Media.” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society 22(3): 345-366.

Schimmel, K.S., C.L. Harrington, and D.D. Bielby. (2007). “Keep Your Fans to Yourself: The Disjuncture between Sport Studies and Pop Culture Studies’ Perspectives on Fandom.” Sport in Society 10(4): 580-600.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington (2005). “Opening Up America? The Telenovela-ization of U.S. Soap Operas.” Television & New Media 6:383-399.

Harrington, C.L. and D. D. Bielby (2005). “Flow, Home, and Media Pleasures.” Journal of Popular Culture 38:834-854.

Harrington, C.L. and D. D. Bielby. (2005). “Global Television Distribution: Implications of TV ‘Traveling’ for Viewers, Fans and Texts.” American Behavioral Scientist: New Directions in Fan Studies 48(7):902-920.

Harrington, C.L. (2004). “Mental Competence and End-of-Life Decision-Making: Death Row Volunteering and Euthanasia.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law 29:1109-1151.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington (2004). “Managing Culture Matters: Genre, Aesthetic Elements, and the International Market for Exported Television.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 32(1):73-98.

Harrington, C.L. (2003). “Lesbian(s) on Daytime Television: The Bianca Narrative on All My Children.” Feminist Media Studies 3:211-232.

Harrington, C.L., T.W. Kopp, and K.S. Schimmel (2003). “Lessons from the Norwegian Folk High School Tradition.” International Education Journal 4:121-136.

Harrington, C.L. (2003). “Homosexuality on All My Children: Transforming the Daytime Landscape.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 47:216-235.

Harrington, C.L. (2000). “A Community Divided: Defense Attorneys and the Ethics of Death Row Volunteering.” Law & Social Inquiry 25:849-881.

Bielby, D.D., C.L. Harrington and W.T. Bielby. (1999). “Whose Stories Are They? Fan Engagement with Soap Opera Narratives in Three Sites of Fan Activity.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 43:35-51. Reprinted in Toby Miller (Ed.), Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (2002), pp. 101-121. New York: Routledge Press. 4

Harrington, C.L. (1998). “’Is anyone else out there sick of the news?!’: TV Viewers’ Responses to Non-Routine News Coverage.” Media, Culture & Society 20:471-494.

Harrington, C.L. (1997). “Time to Piddle: Death Row Incarceration, Craftswork and the Meaning of Time.” Journal of Arts, Management, Law and Society 27:51-71.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby. (1995). “Where Did You Hear That? Technology and the Social Organization of Gossip.” The Sociological Quarterly 36:1001-1022.

Harrington, C.L. (1992). “Talk About Embarrassment: Exploring the Taboo-Repression- Denial Hypothesis.” Symbolic Interaction 15:203-225.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby. (1990). “The Mythology of Modern Love: Representations of Romance in the 1980s.” Journal of Popular Culture 24:129-144. Reprinted as “Television Love” in Clifford Williams (Ed.), Pp. 16-33 in On Love and Friendship: Philosophical Perspectives (1995), p. 16-33. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Book chapters

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby (Forthcoming). “Pleasure and Adult Development: Extending Winnicott into Late(r) Life.” Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience, edited by Annette Kuhn. I. B. Tauris.

Harrington, C.L. and K.S. Schimmel (Forthcoming). “Andre Agassi and the Tides of Tennis Celebrity: Image, Reconstruction, and Confession.” Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture, edited by Lawrence Wenner. Peter Lang.

Ford, S., A. De Kosnik and C.L. Harrington. (2010). “The Crisis of Daytime Drama, and What It Means for Traditional Television.” Pp. 3-21 in The Survival of Soap Operas: Strategies for a New Media Era, edited by Abigail De Kosnik, Sam Ford and C. Lee Harrington. University Press of Mississippi.

Harrington, C. L. and D. Brothers. (2010). “Constructing the Older Audience: Age and Aging on Soaps.” Pp. 300-314 in The Survival of Soap Operas: Strategies for a New Media Era, edited by Abigail De Kosnik, Sam Ford and C. Lee Harrington. University Press of Mississippi.

Gray, J., Sandvoss, C. and C. L. Harrington. (2007). “Why Study Fans?” Pp. 1-16 in Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. New York: New York University Press.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby. (2007). “Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies.” Pp. 179-197 in Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. New York: New York University Press.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington. (2002). “Markets and Meanings: The Global Syndication of Television Programming.” Pp. 215-232 in Global Cultures: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization, edited by Diana Crane, Nobuko Kawashima, and Kenichi Kawasaki. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 5

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby. (2001). “Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption.” Pp. 1-15 in Popular Culture: Production and Consumption, edited by C.L. Harrington and D.D. Bielby. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Harrington, C.L. and S. Kunkel. (1996). “Feminist Politics, Critical Gerontology, and the Sociology of Aging.” Pp. 8-15 in Sociology of Aging: International Perspectives, edited by Victor Minichiello, Neena Chappell, Hal Kendig and Alan Walker. International Sociological Association.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington. (1994). “Reach Out and Touch Someone: Audiences, Viewers, Agency, and the Televisual Experience.” Pp. 81-100 in Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception, edited by Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington. (1992). “Public Meanings, Private Screenings: The Formation of Social Bonds Through the Televisual Experience.” Pp. 155-178 in Perspectives on Social Problems, edited by Gale Miller and James A. Holstein. Volume 3. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Research reports

Harrington, C.L. (2010/2011). Aging and the Future of Media Fandom. Research Memo: Convergence Culture Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edited by Henry Jenkins, William Uricchio, Daniel Pereira, Sheila Seles and Alex Leavitt, http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2011/07/c3_research_memo_aging_and_the. php (24 pps).

Harrington, C.L. (2001). Conditions of Represent-ability: Homosexuality on All My Children. Funded by the Center for the Study of Media & Society, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (101 pps.).

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington. (1990). Program Evaluation of the Mother/Daughter CHOICES Project. Funded by the Girls Club of Greater Santa Barbara, California and Advocacy Press (71 pps).

Book reviews

Harrington, C.L. (2005). Review of Serial Monogamy: Soap Opera, Lifespan, and the Gendered Politics of Fantasy by Christine Scodari in Popular Communication 4(1):71-73.

Harrington, C.L. (2003). Review of Talking Trash: The Cultural Politics of Daytime TV Talk Shows by Julie Engel Manga in American Journal of Sociology 109(3):808-810.

Harrington, C.L. (2002). Review of Thinking Through Television by Ron Lembo in American Journal of Sociology 107:1396-1398.

Harrington, C.L. (2000). Reviews of Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net edited by Steve Jones, and Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space by Annette N. Markham in Contemporary Sociology 29:564-566. 6

Harrington, C.L. (1994). Review of Discreet Indiscretions: The Social Organization of Gossip by Jorg R. Bergmann in Humanity and Society 18:111-113.

Harrington, C.L. (1992). Review of Novels, Novelists and Readers by Mary F. Rogers in Contemporary Sociology 21:525-526.

Harrington, C.L. (1990). Review of The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology – And How To End It by Ian Parker in Humanity and Society 14:432-434.

Other publications

Harrington, C.L. (2008). “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer Representations on TV.” Pp. 145-151 in Battleground: The Media (Vol. 1), edited by Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray. Newport, CT: Greenwood.

Harrington, C.L. (2001). “LesBianca.” Pp. 34-37 in Images (Summer). New York, NY: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Harrington, C.L. (1999). “Love in the Afternoon: Love, Marriage and Family on Daytime Soap Operas.” Pp. 57-64 in Marriage and Family Workbook, edited by Robert Manis. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Reprinted in Challenge to Society: A Reader and Workbook (1999/2000), edited by Robert Manis. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Harrington, C.L. (1990). “Analyzing Emotions in Discourse,” Sociology of Emotions Newsletter 5:2. Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association.

Research grants (external)

Harrington, C.L. (2010). “Aging and the Future of Media Fandom,” Convergence Culture Consortium (C3), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston ($2,500).

Harrington, C.L. (2001). “Current Representations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People in Entertainment Television: The Case of All My Children,” Center for the Study of Media & Society, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), New York ($6,000).

Bielby, D.D. and Harrington, C.L. (1990). “Program Evaluation of the Mother/Daughter CHOICES Project,” Girls Club of Greater Santa Barbara, California ($3,000).

Research grants (internal)

Harrington, C.L. (2002). Liberal Education Enrichment Grant to support attendance at CIEE seminar, “Nation-Building in South Africa,” Miami University ($2,000).

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Kopp, T.W. and C.L. Harrington (2000). “The Norwegian Folk High School: A Cultural Investment in Adolescent Development,” Philip and Elaina Hampton Fund for Faculty International Initiatives ($5,700), Liberal Education Council ($2,984) and Department of Teacher Education ($1,000), Miami University.

Harrington, C.L. (1999). “Globalization of U.S. Soap Operas,” Summer Research Appointment, Miami University ($4,600).

Harrington, C.L. (1998). “The Global Marketing of U.S. Soap Operas,” Small Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University ($500).

Harrington, C.L. (1998). “Volunteering for Execution: The Death Row Defense Attorney’s Dilemma,” Small Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University ($495).

Harrington, C.L. (1995). “Exploring the Subculture of Wild Cavers,” Small Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University ($500).

Harrington, C.L. (1991). “The Phenomenon of Celebrity: Daytime Serials, Actors, and Fans,” Small Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University ($500).

Papers presented at professional meetings (2000-present)

Harrington, C.L., Bielby, D.D. and A.R. Bardo, “Life Course Transitions and the Future of Fandom,” annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Boston, May 2011. Also presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, November 2011.

Harrington, C.L. and D. Bielby, “Media fandom and the life course,” annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.

Harrington, C.L. and D. Bielby, “A life course perspective on fandom,” annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Singapore, June 2010.

Harrington, C. L., panelist, “Media and the death penalty,” Media and Human Rights in America Symposium, Southern Methodist University, April 2010.

Harrington, C.L. and D. Brothers, “Constructing the older audience: Age and aging on soaps,” annual meetings of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, California, March 2010.

S. Ford, C.L. Harrington and A. DeKosnik, “The crisis of daytime drama and what it means for the future of television,” annual meetings of the Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2010.

Harrington, C.L. and D. Brothers-McPhail, “The life course on-screen: Acting, aging, and daytime soap operas,” annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbour, Maryland, November 2008 (poster session).

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Muschert, G.W., Reece, H., and C. L. Harrington, “Setting, speaking, and framing in the news discourse of elected executions,” annual meetings of the North Central Sociological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2008.

Harrington, C.L., panelist, “Unfolding and understanding communities,” Unboxing Television, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 2007.

Harrington, C.L., panelist, “Opening remarks,” Futures of Entertainment2, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 2007.

Muschert, G.W., C.L. Harrington and H. Reece, “The moral narratives of death row volunteers in the news media,” annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, August 2007.

Schimmel, K.S., D.D. Bielby and C.L. Harrington, “Fandom: Sports studies and fan studies perspectives,” Annual Meetings of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington, “Genre, aesthetic elements, and the global market for television,” Annual Meetings of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby, “Global fandom/global fan studies,” Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR, April 2005. Revised version presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association, New York, May 2005.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby, “Imagining global fandom: Industry/fan discourses in international television distribution,” Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, May/June 2004. Also presented at the Consoleing Passions Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2004.

Harrington, C.L. and D.D. Bielby, “Cross-cultural fandom: Transforming ‘not home’ into ‘home’,” Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA, May 2003.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington, “The telenovela-ization of U.S. serials: Genre implications,” Annual Meetings of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2003.

Harrington, C.L. “Homosexuality on All My Children: Transforming the daytime landscape,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington. “Opening up America? The telenovela-ization of U.S. soap operas,” Conference on Latin American Telenovelas and Soap Operas, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, April 2002.

Bielby, D.D. and C.L. Harrington, “Tribute to Agnes Nixon: Soap operas in the 21st century.” Annual Meetings of the American Culture/Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2001.

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Harrington, C.L. “’Rationality’ and death row volunteering: Defense attorneys’ perceptions of client competence,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000.

Activities at professional meetings (2000-present)

Co-organizer, Session on Media and Aging Audiences/Fans/Users: New Areas of Inquiry, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Denver, August 2012.

Chair, Session on Researching Audiences Online, Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association, Singapore, June 2010.

Chair, Session on Soap Opera V: Capitalizing on History/The Fan Community, Annual Meetings of the Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2010.

Chair, Session on Celebrity Culture: From Stars to Fans, Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2008.

Moderator, Session on Students and Social Adaptations, Social Change and Urban Life (1st Miami-Seoul Conference), Seoul, Korea, October 2007.

Organizer and Presider, Regular Session on Popular Culture, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2003.

Presider, Refereed Roundtables on Sociology of Culture, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002.

Discussant, Special Session on Popular Music, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000.

Professional service (selected)

Member:  American Sociological Association  International Communication Association o Popular Communication Division o Feminist Studies Division  Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Journal Editing  Co-editor, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (2006-2011). With C. Sandvoss and J. Gray. Affiliated with the Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association.  Guest editor, American Behavioral Scientist: New Directions in Fan Studies, (2005, Volume 48, Number 7). With D. D. Bielby.  Editorial Board Member, Transformative Works and Cultures (2007-present)  Editorial Board Member, Gender & Society (1997-2001)

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Consulting  Consulting Researcher, Convergence Culture Consortium (C3), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-2011)  Member, Academic Advisory Board, Taking Sides: Human Sexuality, McGraw-Hill Publishing (2009-present)

ASA Departmental Resources Group (DRG; 2008-present). Participated in the external review process for the following departments. Each review involved a site visit and the production of a written report.  Fordham University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Spring 2010 (graduate/undergraduate)  James Madison University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Fall 2006 (undergraduate)  University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Department of Sociology, Spring 2005 (graduate/undergraduate)

Formal Mentoring  Ohio Academic Leadership Academy, Inter-University Council of Ohio (Mentee: Dr. Jacqueline Bergdahl, Wright State University, 2007-2008).

Manuscript reviewer (ad-hoc)

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media American Sociological Review Feminist Media Studies American Journal of Sociology Poetics Social Psychology Quarterly Qualitative Research in Psychology Gender & Society Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Social Problems Sociological Inquiry Sociological Focus

University service (selected)

 College of Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee (Fall 2009-Spring 2011)  College of Arts and Sciences Women’s Studies Advisory/Steering Committee (Fall 1991-Spring 1998; Fall 2000-Spring 2002; Fall 2009-Spring 2012)  College of Arts and Sciences Committee for the Review of Chairs and Program Directors (Fall 2001-Spring 2003)  Liberal Education Council (Fall 1998-Spring 2000)  Library Committee of the University Senate (Spring 1995-Spring 1998)  College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee (Summer 1996-Spring 1998)  College of Arts and Sciences Small Grants Committee (Fall 1991-Spring 1995)

Departmental service (selected)

 Program Coordinator, MU2: Mahidol University and Miami University International Joint Master’s Degree in Population and Social Gerontology (July 2009-July 2010)  Department Chair (July 2003-December 2008)  Coordinator, Sociology Program (July 1999-July 2000; July 2001-December 2002)