Managing Board
Tara McPherson
University of Southern California Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the school of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She teaches courses in digital media, television, and popular culture. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture, a USC’s Phi Kappa Phi award for outstanding scholarship, and was a finalist for the Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, Race in Cyberspace, 24, The New Media Handbook, The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, Virtual Publics and Basketball Jones. She is currently co-editing two anthologies on new technology (including one for the MacArthur Foundation’s initiative in Digital Media and Learning) and working on a book manuscript on new media.
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