Matt Sienkiewicz, PhD Home: 32 Summit Ave #4 ▪ Brookline, MA 02446 Office: S. Mary’s South 455 ▪ Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 608-335-2019 ▪
[email protected] Research Interests Global cinema and television Middle Eastern media cultures American media intervention Comedy Studies Representation of race and religion Citizen Journalism and verification Professional History Assistant Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston College, 2012 to Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Gettysburg College, 2011 to 2012 Education PhD, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2011. Dissertation “From All Directions: Globalization and the Struggle for Independent Palestinian Media” Visiting Researcher, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, October 2009 to June 2010 Master of Arts, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2007 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Film Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, May 2003 Publications Books and Journal Issues: ▪ Sienkiewicz, M. (Forthcoming, 2016). The Other Air Force: America’s efforts to reshape the post 9/11 Middle East through broadcast media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ▪ Marx, N. and Sienkiewicz, M., (Eds.). (Forthcoming, 2016). The Comedy Studies Reader. Austin: University of Texas Press. ▪ Sienkiewicz, M. and Hogan, L, (Eds.) (2014). Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture theme issue on global media and conceptions of youth and childhood. ▪ Marx, N., Sienkiewicz, M. & Becker, R., (Eds.). (2013). Saturday Night Live and American TV. 1 Matt Sienkiewicz
[email protected] Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Journal Articles: ▪ Sienkiewicz, M. (In progress). I know they are, but what are we?: New Media and ‘counter-colonialism’ in Israeli discourse of Palestinian media. ▪ Sienkiewicz, M. (Under review).