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MICHAEL RENNETT Department of Communication and Media Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi 6300 Ocean Dr MICHAEL RENNETT Department of Communication and Media Rennett 2 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 • 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. <http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/10/07/jessie-nizewitz-nude-celebrity- selfies-and-contrasting-discourses-victim-blaming> “’Funny Women Aren’t Feminist Symbols’: Postfeminism and Comedy in Liz Meriwether’s New Girl.” In Media Res. 9 May 2013. Online. <http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2013/05/09/funny-women-aren-t- feministsymbols-postfeminism-and-comedy-liz-meriwether-s-new-girl> “’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. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/126867-some-of-my-best-friends-are-inconcentration- camps-the-absence-of-je/> Rennett 4 “Baudrillard and The Joe Schmo Show.” The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Ed. Gerry Coulter. Vol. 6.1, January 2009. Online. <http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol6_1/v6-1-rennett.html> 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. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/127049-hitchcock-101-day-five-19441946/> “Hitchcock 101: Spellbound.” Directors Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock. PopMatters.com, 17 June 2010. Online. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/127049-hitchcock-101-day-five-19441946/> “Inglourious Basterds.” The Journal of Religion and Film. Ed. Rubina Ramji. Vol. 13.2, October 2009. Online. <http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol13.no2/reviews/InglouriousBasterds.htm> ”Defiance.” The Journal of Religion and Film. Ed. Rubina Ramji. Vol. 13.1, April 2009. Online. <http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol13.no1/reviews/Defiance.htm> 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. Rennett 6 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 .
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