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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 with honors 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 and Summer 2013)
  • 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

  • Invited Lecture:  “Alternative Media Publics and the ‘Arab Spring’” Introduction to Communication.  University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 2011.  Instructor:  Dr. Nitin Govil.
  • “Soundscapes in Beirut: The Production of Affective Spaces” Ninth Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. Columbia College, Chicago, IL, March 2011.
  • Invited Talk:  “Contemporary Lebanese Youth Cultural Practice.” MA in Globalisation and Integration course at Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark, August 2010.  Instructor:  Dr. Kirstine Sinclair.
  • “Dedication and Delusion:  An Ecocritical Look at the Work of Timothy Treadwell and Mark Bittner” Confluence:  Literature, Art, Criticism, Science, Activism, Politics.  Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Annual Conference. Wofford College, 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 for The Body.  English Department Fall Colloquium. Boston College, November 2006