Vicki A. Mayer
EDUCATION:
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Ph.D. 1997-2000 Communication
M.A. 1994-1997 Communication
Comprehensive Areas: Audiences, Media Studies, Critical Political Economy and Ethnography
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
B.A. 1989-1993 magna cum laude Independent Major
UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Department of
Communication, 2003-Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California,
Davis, American Studies Program, 2001-2003.
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Communication, 2000-2001.
Associate Instructor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication, Spring 2000.
Instructor, Trinity University, Department of Communication, 1998-1999.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
- "Soft-Core in TV Time: The Political Economy of a Cultural Trend." Critical Studies in Media Communication. 22, no. 4 (2005): tba.
- "Research Beyond the Pale: Theorizing Articulations of Whiteness in the Ethnography of Audiences." Communication Theory. 15, no. 2 (2005): 148-167.
- "Please Pass the Pan: Retheorizing the Map of Panlatinidad in Communication Research." The Communication Review. 7, no. 2 (2004): 113-124.
- "Living Telenovelas/Telenovelizing Life: Mexican-American Girls’ Identities and Transnational Telenovelas." Journal of Communication. 53, no. 3 (2003): 479-495.
- "When the Camera Won’t Focus: Tensions in Media Ethnography." Feminist Media Studies. 1.3 (2001) 307-322.
- "Pop Goes the World." Emergences: Journal of Media and Composite Cultures. 11.2 (2001) 307-322.
- "From Segmented to Fragmented: Latino Media in San Antonio, Texas." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 78.2 (2001) 275-290.
- "Capturing Cultural Identity/Creating Community: A Grassroots Video Project in San Antonio, Texas." International Journal of Cultural Studies. 3.1 (2000) 57-78.
- "For the People and By the People: TV Maxambomba’s Regeneration of Popular Cinema." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 17 (1998) 223-232.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Studies Association
International Communication Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.