MICHAEL RENNETT Department of Communication and Media Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi 6300 Ocean Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78412 [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Austin, TX Concentration in Media Studies; started August 2011 – August 2017 Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies □ Dissertation: “How Grown-Ups Are Born: The Emerging-Adult Genre and American Film and Television” Advisors: Janet Staiger and Thomas Schatz

M.A. Chapman University, College of Film and Media Arts, Orange, CA Concentration in Film Studies; August 2004 – May 2006 □ Thesis: “Quentin Tarantino and the Director as DJ”

B.A. California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA August 2000 – May 2004 Major: Department of Cinema and Television Arts Media Theory and Criticism, 2004 Minor: College of Humanities Jewish Studies, 2004

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2017-18 Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, Department of Communication and Media Television Criticism, Spring 2018 New Media and Communication, Spring 2018 Film Criticism, Fall 2017 Film and Culture, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018 • Primary instructor for two hundred students each semester with a 4/4 teaching load. Responsibilities include planning syllabi, assigning screenings and readings, holding office hours, and grading tests, quizzes, and screening journals.

2016 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Undergraduate Studies Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Human Rights: Law/Lit/Culture, Fall 2016 • Responsibilities include leading discussion sections, lecturing class upon request, working with students independently, and grading papers.

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2014-15 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Radio-Television- Film Narrative Strategies, Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 • Primary instructor for sixty students each semester. Responsibilities include planning syllabus, assigning readings, holding office hours for students, and grading tests, quizzes, screening journals, and Twitter posts.

2011-16 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film • Responsibilities include leading discussion sections, holding independent office hours for students, lecturing class upon request, and grading papers, quizzes, and exams. Class sizes range from twenty to one-hundred eighty students.

Film History, Spring 2016 Narrative Strategies, Fall 2013 – Spring 2014, Fall 2015 Introduction to Digital Media, Spring 2013 Film Directors: Martin Scorsese, Fall 2012 Children and Media, Fall 2012 Global Television: Issues and Problems, Spring 2012 Chinese Film Auteurs, Spring 2012 Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2011

2011 Adjunct Faculty, MiraCosta College, Department of Film Introduction to Film, Spring 2011 • Primary instructor for thirty students. Responsibilities include planning syllabus, assigning readings, holding office hours for students, and grading tests, quizzes, and essays.

2007-10 Adjunct Faculty, Moorpark College, Department of Humanities History of Cinema II (WWII to Present); Spring 2007 – Spring 2008, Spring 2009 – Spring 2010 Introduction to Cinema; Spring 2007, Spring 2008 History of Cinema I (1895 to WWII); Fall 2007 – Fall 2008 Film Directors; Spring 2009 • Primary instructor for classes ranging from twenty to seventy. Responsibilities include planning syllabus, assigning readings, holding office hours for students, and grading tests, quizzes, and essays.

2005-06 Graduate Assistant, Chapman University, College of Film and Media Arts Survey of American Cinema, August 2005 – December 2005 Evolution of Film Language and Theory, February 2006 – May 2006 Production Workshop I & II, August 2005 – May 2006

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Rennett 3

“Introduction: Comedy and Humor Studies,” co-authored with Annie Berke and Maggie Hennefeld, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, In Focus: Comedy and Humor Studies, 28.3 (forthcoming Spring 2019).

“Bros, BFFs, and the New Romantic Foil: Homosocial Relationships in Emerging-Adult Texts.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.6 (2015): 568-583.

“Quentin Tarantino and the Director as DJ.” The Journal of Popular Culture 45.2 (April 2012): 391- 409.

Journal Sections Co-editor, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 28.3, In Focus: Comedy and Humor Studies (forthcoming Spring 2019). With Annie Berke and Maggie Hennefeld.

Book Chapters “The Color of Authorship: Almodóvar’s Labyrinth of Red.” How the Films of Pedro Almodóvar Draw Upon and Influence Spanish Society: Bilingual Essays on His Cinema. Eds. Maria Matz and Carole Salmon. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2012. 67-93.

“Plugging in to the Experience Machine.” Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For. Ed. Thorsten Botz-Borstein. Chicago: Open Court, 2011. 53-63.

“Lost’s Storytelling Philosophy: Fate, Determinism and the Manipulation of Time.” Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series. Ed. Randy Laist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 25- 42.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS Online Articles “Jessie Nizewitz, Nude Celebrity Selfies, and Contrasting Discourses of Victim-Blaming.” In Media Res. 7 October 2014. Online.

“’Funny Women Aren’t Feminist Symbols’: Postfeminism and Comedy in Liz Meriwether’s New Girl.” In Media Res. 9 May 2013. Online.

“’Some of my Best Friends are in Concentration Camps’: The Absence of Jews in Hitchcock’s WWII Films.” Directors Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock. PopMatters.com, 16 June 2010. Online.

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“Baudrillard and The Joe Schmo Show.” The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Ed. Gerry Coulter. Vol. 6.1, January 2009. Online.

Book Reviews “Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television by Michael DeAngelis.” The Velvet Light Trap 75 (Spring 2015): 111-113.

Film Reviews “Hitchcock 101: Lifeboat.” Directors Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock. PopMatters.com, 17 June 2010. Online.

“Hitchcock 101: Spellbound.” Directors Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock. PopMatters.com, 17 June 2010. Online.

“Inglourious Basterds.” The Journal of Religion and Film. Ed. Rubina Ramji. Vol. 13.2, October 2009. Online.

”Defiance.” The Journal of Religion and Film. Ed. Rubina Ramji. Vol. 13.1, April 2009. Online.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Diverse Paths to Adulthood: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Emerging-Adult Narratives,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 14-18, 2018.

“Teen TV Graduates: One Tree Hill and Marketing ‘Genre Evolution,’” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 22-26, 2017.

“Challenge Beasts, Comp Throwers, and Social Threats: Gendering ‘Quality’ Formats of CBS Game- Docs,” Console-ing Passions International Conference of Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, South Bend, IN, June 16-18, 2016.

“Top Gear and the Gendering of ‘Quality’ in Reality Television,” Console-ing Passions International Conference of Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, Dublin, Ireland, June 18- 20, 2015.

“No More Mr. Nice Guy: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Feminist Deconstruction of the ‘Nice Guy’ Character,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, QC, March 25-29, 2015.

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“A Bit of a Fixer-Upper: Frozen’s ‘Alternative’ Paths to Adulthood,” Fun with Dick and Jane: Gender and Childhood Conference, South Bend, IN, December 4-6, 2014.

“The Angry ‘Nice Guy’ in American Film and Television,” Film and History Conference, Madison, WI, October 29 – November 2, 2014.

“’Happily Ever After’”? Defining the ‘Generic Adulthood’ of Disney Animated Features,” Cultural Studies Association National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, May 29-31, 2014.

“Growing Up Beyoncé: Sex, Motherhood, and Feminism on the Road to Adulthood,” Cultural Studies Association National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, May 29-31, 2014.

“’I Still Have No Clue What I’m Doing’: Judd Apatow and the Redefinition of Contemporary Authorship,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Washington, DC, March 27-30, 2013.

“Bros, BFFs, and the New Romantic Foil: Homosocial Relationships in Emerging-Adult Texts,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 6-10, 2013.

“Let’s Sleep Together (As Long As We Don’t Hold Hands): Reading the Contemporary Emerging- Adult-Crisis Film as Postfeminist Romance,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Boston, MA, April 11-14, 2012.

“’Some of my Best Friends are in Concentration Camps’: The Absence of Jews in Hitchcock’s WWII Films,” 109th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association , Claremont, CA, November 5-6, 2011.

“An Eye for an Eye?: Post-Holocaust Issues of Revenge and Forgiveness in Spielberg’s Films,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 50th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21, 2010.

“The Conspiracy of Reality: Elements of Baudrillard in The Joe Schmo Show,” Baudrillard: A Symposium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 18-19, 2008.

“Quentin Tarantino and the Director as DJ,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 19-22, 2008.

EDITORIAL SERVICE Coordinating Editorial Chair, The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 77. University of Texas at Austin. Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap, Issues 75 & 77. University of Texas at Austin. Reading Board, The Velvet Light Trap, Issues 71 & 73. University of Texas at Austin. Column Editor, Flow. University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.

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Graduate Student Representative, Comedy and Humor Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG), Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). March 2015 – July 2017. Co-Founder, UT-Austin Radio-Television-Film Gender and Media Research Cluster. University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 – Spring 2014. Coordinator, Flow Conference. University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Society for Cinema and Media Studies Member: Children’s and Youth Media and Culture Scholarly Interest Group (SIG); Comedy and Humor Studies SIG; Media Industries SIG; Television Studies SIG