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Black Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage

La Donna L. Forsgren

Oxford University Press, 2026
Designing the Teenage Girl: The Debut of a Popular Character

Mary Celeste Kearney

University of Texas Press, 2026
Forms and Norms Ken Kwapis and the Directorial Art of Subtle Deviation in Network Television

Christine Becker

Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, 2026
Mama Don't Take My Chromophobia Away: Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is Selling us a White Fantasy

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Los Angeles Review of Books, 2026
Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media

Lida Zeitlin-Wu, co-edited by Carolyn L. Kane

MIT Press, 2025
"Creative Beyond Their Years: South Bend's Beyond Our Control," in Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics

Christine Becker, edited by Lauren Herold and Annie Sullivan

University of Georgia Press, 2025
Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade

Matthew Thomas Payne

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025
Honest Work Done By Honest Dogs: Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance

Patrick McKelvey

Theatre Journal, 2025
María Irene Fornés in Context

Anne García-Romero

Cambridge University Press, 2025
On AI Colourisation: Algorithms, Ancestry, and Colour Beyond the Black Box

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Visual Studies, 2025
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (collaboratively authored with the DISCO Network).

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Stanford University Press, 2025
The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice 2nd Edition

Michael Kackman, Mary Celeste Kearney

Routledge, 2025
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation

Patrick McKelvey

NYU Press, 2024
Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (Audio Book)

Narration by Siiri Scott, book by Pamela Wojcik

Tantor Audio, 2024
“Grotesque Dramaturgy and Gender Critique in the Post-Dictatorship Southern Cone,” in Bodies on the Front Lines: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Anne García-Romero, edited by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien

University of Michigan Press, 2024
Panopticon (2024)

George Sikharulidze

20 Steps Productions, 2024
PBS NewsHour: Drunk on Film (2024)

Ted Mandell

PBS News, 2024
Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (*Winner of the 2025 ATHE Outstanding Book Award for Innovative Achievement)

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

University of Michigan Press, 2024
Targeting Beauty (2024)

William Donaruma

Self-Produced, 2024
Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game

Matthew Thomas Payne

Amhert College Press, 2024
Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

University of California Press, 2024
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader (Audio Book)

Narration by Siiri Scott, book by Herminia Ibarra

Ascent Audio, 2023
Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous (2023)

Olivier Morel

Produced by Zadig Productions (France), distributed by IndiePix (New York City, NY), 2023
“Listening to the Dreadfuls” in Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster

Christine Becker, edited by Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel

Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023
Meditation Apps and the Unbearable Whiteness of Wellness

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Just Tech, 2023
Stanislavsky and Race: Questioning the "System" in the 21st Century

Siiri Scott, edited with Jay Paul Skelton

Routledge, 2023
Surface Classicism: Aethetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, 2023
The "German Illusion," Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous's Late Work

Olivier Morel

Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
The Race for Rehabilitation: Sign-Mime, The National Theatre of the Deaf, and Cold War Internationalism

Patrick McKelvey

Theatre Survey, 2023
Transculturation, Reclamation, and Adaptation: Approaches to Teaching Father Comes Home from the Wars

La Donna L. Forsgren

Modern Drama, 2023
What’s Your Color? Mood Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Camera Obscura, 2023
White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners (Audio Book)

Narration by Siiri Scott, book by Narges Mohammadi

Orange Sky Audio, 2023
"Atypical Television? The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netflix's Atypical" in Autism in Film and Television: On the Island

Christine Becker, edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer

University of Texas Press, 2022
“NewsNation: Local Broadcasting, National Cable Channels, and the Evolution of WGN” in From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels, Second Edition

Christine Becker, edited by Derek Johnson

Routledge, 2022
That’s a Long Time… A Rectify Video Essay (2022)

Christine Becker, co-created with FTT alum Tanner Cipriano

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An Old Family Recipe (2021)

William Donaruma

ND Productions, 2021
Chinese Socialist Theatres of Reform: Rethinking Performance Practice and Debates in the Maoist Period

Edited by Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Xiaomei Chen, and Siyuan Liu

University of Michigan Press, 2021
Hands Up, Don't Shoot: 'Suicide,' Black Gun Ownership, and Restoring Black Masculinity on Black Arts Movement Stages

La Donna L. Forsgren

Theatre Journal, 2021
“Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders,” in Very Special Episodes: Event Television and Social Change

Christine Becker, edited by Jennifer Porst and Jonathan Cohn

Rutgers University Press, 2021
Looking Outward from/with IGSA@ND

Mary Celeste Kearney, Angeletta KM Gourdine, Shauna Pomerantz

Girlhood Studies, 2021
Minor Detail (Audio Book)

Narration by Siiri Scott, book by Adania Shibli

Tantor Audio, 2021
“Modern Drama Script Anthologies,” In Literary Information in China: A History

Tarryn Li-Min Chun, edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk

Columbia University Press, 2021
Replicating Irene’s Room: Sustaining Fornesian Playwriting in the Twenty-First Century

Anne García-Romero

Theatre Topics, 2021
Shakespeare and Forgetting

Peter Holland

Arden Shakespeare, 2021
Static Space (2021)

William Donaruma

Self-Produced, 2021
Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion

La Donna L. Forsgren

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2021
Wang Chong and the Theatre of Immediacy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Theatre Survey, 2021
And There is Nothing New Under the Sun (2021)

William Donaruma

ND Productions, 2020
Fabricating Images at the Color Factory

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Frames Cinema Journal, 2020
Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Routledge, 2020
Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance

La Donna L. Forsgren

Northwestern University Press, 2020
"Vulnerability in Performance: Daring to be Ourselves" in The Pedagogy of Vulnerability

Siiri Scott, edited by Ed Barntmeier and Maria McKenna

Information Age Publishing, 2020
A Disabled Actor Prepares: Stanislavsky, Disability, and Work at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped

Patrick McKelvey

Theatre Journal, 2019
“BBC America: Cloning Drama for a Transnational Network,” in Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans

Christine Becker, edited by Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, and Matt Hills

Oxford University Press, 2019
Critical Acts—Spoken Drama and its Doubles: Thunderstorm 2.0 by Wang Chong and Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

TDR: The Drama Review, 2019
How to Play Video Games

Matthew Thomas Payne, co-edited with Nina B. Huntemann

NYU Press, 2019
Mediated Transgression and Madame White: Technology and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Stagings of a Chinese Folktale

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Theatre Journal, 2019
The Wiz Redux; or Why Queer Black Feminist Spectatorship and Politically Engaged Popular Entertainment Continue to Matter

La Donna L. Forsgren

Theatre Survey, 2019
"Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality Television,” in Exploring Television Acting

Christine Becker, edited by Christopher Hogg and Tom Cantrell

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018
Fatherland (2018)

George Sikharulidze

Meridian 1520, 2018
In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement

La Donna L. Forsgren

Northwestern University Press, 2018
Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

Peter Lang, 2018
Nabokov’s Optical Paintbox: Color in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

The Nabokov Online Journal, 2018
Nets of Memory (2018)

William Donaruma

Self-Produced, 2018
Profils 14-18 (2018)

Olivier Morel

TV5-Monde International/Zadig Productions, 2018
Revolutionary Illumination: Stage Lighting, Politics, and Play in 1930s Shanghai Theater

Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2018
"Television Before the Broadcast Era" in A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting

Micheal Kackman, edited by Aniko Bodroghozy

Wiley, 2018
The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice

Michael Kackman, Mary Celeste Kearney

Routledge, 2018
A New Year (2017)

George Sikharulidze

Meridian 1520, 2017
Breaking Down the ‘Walls of Whiteness’: Strategies for Teaching About Race and Social Justice in a ‘Very Black Year’

La Donna L. Forsgren

Theatre Topics, 2017
Gender and Rock

Mary Celeste Kearney

Oxford University Press, 2017
Paloma

Anne García-Romero

Broadway Play Publishing, 2017
Strong Bodies Fight (2017)

William Donaruma

Self-Produced, 2017
Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Rutgers University Press, 2016
Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11

Matthew Thomas Payne

NYU Press, 2016
Red Apples (2016)

George Sikharulidze

Meridian 1520, 2016
Ron Whyte’s ‘Disemployment’: Prosthetic Performance and Theatrical Labor

Patrick McKelvey

Theatre Survey, 2016
The Fornes Frame : Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes

Anne García-Romero

The University of Arizona Press, 2016
Transmedia Adaptation, or the Kinesthetics of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, 2016
First Time Fans (2024)

Ted Mandell

Notre Dame Studios, 2015
Island Places Island Lives

William Donaruma

Wordwell Press, 2015
Off Goes the Telly: Writer Discourse on the Life on Mars Franchise Finales

Christine Becker

Journal of Screenwriting, 2015
'Set Your Blackness Free': Barbara Ann Teer's Art and Activism During the Black Arts Movement

La Donna L. Forsgren

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2015
Walking Wounded [English translation of Revenants, Futuropolis, 2014] (2015)

Olivier Morel

NBM Publishing, 2015
Berlin Légendes ou la Mémoire des Décombres

Olivier Morel

Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2014
The Fish that Drowned (2014)

George Sikharulidze

Meridian 1520, 2014
$Cover of The Arden Shakespeare Coriolanus, edited by Peter Holland, featuring a fractured, gold and rust-colored face overlaid on classical figures.$

Coriolanus

Edited by Peter Holland

Arden Shakespeare, 2013
Germany as Told by Writers Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Bernhard Schlink (2013)

Olivier Morel

Seconde Vague Productions & ARTE-TV, 2013
Juanita's Statue

Anne García-Romero

Broadway Play Publishing, 2013
Newspaper Article: "Sports offers the arena to raise awareness of gun violence"

Ted Mandell

Washington Post, 2013
Okuyamba (2012)

Ted Mandell

Hospice Foundation, 2012
“Truthmovies are Just Beginning: American Independent Cinema in the Postwar Era” in The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film

Ted Barron, edited by Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 1

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

Peter Lang, 2011
On The Bridge (2011)

Olivier Morel

Zadig Productions & ARTE-TV, 2011
"Paul Newman: Superstardom and Anti-Stardom,” in New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s

Christine Becker, edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Rutgers University Press, 2011
Strong Bodies Fight (2011)

William Donaruma

Self-Produced, 2011
The Gender and Media Reader

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

Routledge, 2011
Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence

Michael Kackman, co-edited with Matthew Payne, Marnie Binfield, Allison Perlman, and Bryan Sebok

Routledge, 2010
The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Duke University Press, 2010
Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games

Matthew Thomas Payne, co-edited by Nina B. Huntemann

Routledge, 2009
It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on Fifties Television

Christine Becker

Wesleyan University Press, 2008
Nothing on but Hoppy Badges: Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd Enterprises, and Emergent Media Globalization

Michael Kackman

Cinema Journal, 2008
Girls Make Media

Mary Celeste Kearney

Routledge, 2006
Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys: The Greatest College Football Finishes (Since 1970)

Ted Mandell

Hardwood Press, 2006
Shakespeare, Memory and Performance

Peter Holland

Cambridge University Press, 2006
Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture.

Michael Kackman

University of Minnesota Press, 2005
English Shakespeares

Peter Holland

Cambridge University Press, 1997
Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Duke University Press & I.B. Taurus Publications, 1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Edited by Peter Holland

Oxford University Press, 1995