Education
- PhD, Bowling Green State University
Biography
Meredith Guthrie is interested in western contemporary mass media, particularly the areas girl culture, disabiliity, marketing, and celebrity culture. She has examined the creation of the tween (8- to 14-year-old girl) demographic and how the rise of cable television has contributed to the recent explosion of media aimed at children. Dr. Guthrie has also examined depictions of disability in children’s literature and the concept of the homosexual gaze in contemporary film.
Publications
- "Strategies for Teaching Large Enrollment Online Classes," Diversity of Higher Education Remote Learning: A Guide. Jerome Branch, Paula Davis, Ellen Cohn, Eds. Springer, 2023.
- "Whatever You Do, Don't Call it 'Mommy Porn': Fifty Shades of Grey, Fan Culture, and the Limits of Intellectual Property." Infinite Earths Special Issue: "Fandom." http://infiniteearths.co.uk, October 2013.
- "I Don't Want to Be Different: Diabetes in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Unseen Childhoods: Disabled Characters in Twentieth-Century Books for Girls. Helen Aveling, ed. Bettany Press, 2009.
- “The Process of Becoming a Woman’s Body: Menstruation and the Containment of Femininity.” MP: An International Online Feminist Journal, 1(5), January 2007.
- “Boys on Film: The Homosexual Male Gaze and the Erasure of the Female Gaze in David DeCoteau’s The Brotherhood Series” Trash Cinema, 2007.
- “Diversity-Focused Service Learning in General Studies and Cultural Studies Classes.” Diversity Across the Curriculum, edited by Jerome Branche, Ellen R. Cohn, and John Mullennix, to be published by Anker Publishing Company, 2007.
Courses Taught
- Mass Communication Process (COMMRC 0320)
- History of Mass Media (COMMRC 1121)
- Media Criticism (COMMRC 1122)
- Media and Consumer Culture (COMMRC 1126)
- Digital Professional Communication (COMMRC 1152)
- Disney (COMMRC 1184)
- History of the Sitcom (COMMRC 1185)