Annenberg welcomes new Scholars in Residence for the Fall 2006 semester
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
As part of the
Annenberg Scholars Program for Culture & Communication , Anna McCarthy, Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, and Professor James Curran, founding head of the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, will be Scholars-in-Residence at the Annenberg School for the Fall 2006 semester.
Professor McCarthy will teach a semester-long graduate course titled "Media, Culture and Citizenship: Histories, Debates, Paradigms."
She is the author of
Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Duke, 2001) and co-editor, with Nick Couldry, (London School of Economics) of
Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age (Routledge, 2004). Her public lecture, "Reality TV and the Neoliberal Theater of Suffering," is scheduled for Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at the Annenberg School.
Professor Curran will teach a semester-long graduate course called "Journalism, Entertainment and Society."
He is the author or editor of eighteen books about the mass media, including
Media and Power (2002) published in five languages,
Culture Wars (2005) and, with Jean Seaton,
Power Without Responsibility (2003), now in its 6th edition. He is currently writing a book called
Media and Money (forthcoming from Routledge). His public lecture, "Media Entertainment and Democracy," is scheduled for Tuesday, October 31st, 2006.