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Erin Cory

Erin Cory

Email Address: ecory@ucsd.edu 

Education

  • Ph.D Candidate, Communication, University of California-San Diego
  • MA in English Literature, Boston College, 2007
  • BA in English Literature and Spanish, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2003

Research Interests

  • Cultural Memory
  • Popular Culture
  • Youth Cultures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region)
  • Archive Studies
  • Cultural Geography
  • War and Subjectivity
  • Ethnographic Methods

Honors

  • Excellent Teaching Assistant (Department of Communication, UCSD 2009)
  • Dean of Social Sciences Travel Grant (UCSD 2009)
  • Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award (Boston College 2007)

Teaching Experience

Instructor:

  • Media Stereotypes, Department of Communication, UCSD (Summer 2012)
  • Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD (Summer 2011)
  • First-Year Writing Seminar, Department of English, Boston College (2006-2007)

Teaching Assistant:

  • Popular Music, Social Practices, and Cultural Politics, Department of Communication, UCSD, with Professor Michael Hanson (2011).
  • Communication as a Social Force, Department of Communication, UCSD, with Professor Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (2010) and Professor Gary Fields (2009). 
  • Language, Communication, and Gender, Department of Communication, UCSD, Professor Michele Goldwasser (2009). 
  • Introduction to Media Methods, Department of Communication, UCSD, with Professor Zeinabu Davis (2009). 
  • Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, with Professor Boatema Boateng (2010), Professor Nitin Govil (2008) and Professor David Serlin (2007) 
  • American Television in the 1970’s, Department of Communication, UCSD, with Professor David Serlin (2007).

Selected Presentations

  • “Soundscapes in Beirut: The Production of Affective Spaces” New Directions in Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies Association Conference at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, March 2011
  • “Dedication and Delusion: An Ecocritical Look at the Work of Timothy Treadwell and Mark Bittner” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, June 2007
  • “The Candid Uncanny: Toward a Productive Mourning in the Work of Kara Walker” Beyond Revolution or Behind It?: The Politics and Practice of Contemporary Feminism Across Academic and Activist Communities. Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2007
  • “Queering the Body” panel at the English Department Fall Colloquium, “The Body,” Boston College, November 2006.