Jessica Hoover

Education

• MA, Media Industry and Cultural Studies, University of North Texas, 2019
• BA, History and Radio/TV/Film, University of North Texas, 2015

Teaching Schedule

Courses Taught

• ENGLISH 101 - Introduction to College Writing
• ENG 102: College Writing and Research
• ENGLISH 111 - Entertainment Arts: Introduction to Film, Television, and Media
• ENG 201: Strategies in Academic Writing
• ENG/FS 291: Introduction to Television Studies

Research Interests

• Film History
• Television History
• Feminist Media Studies
• Humor Studies
• Horror Studies,
• Cultural History
• Gender History
• Women's & Gender Studies
• True Crime 

Related Activities

• Conference Presentations
  • "The Shakiest Man in the Movies: Don Knotts and Fraudulent Masculinity," SMCS 2024, Boston
  • "So, It’s Come to This: The Sitcom Clip Show," SCMS 2023, Denver
  • "Adapting to the Dark: Managing Fear Through True Crime," Console-ing Passions 2022, Orlando
  • "Picture It: The Formal and Textual Value of Flashback Episodes in The Golden Girls," SCMS 2022, Virtual
  • “Through the Screen: The Carol Burnett Show as Cultural Antecedent to Feminist Media Analysis” SCMS, Seattle, 2019\n“Daddy Issues: Television’s Single Parent Shows of the 1950s and ‘60s” Console-ing Passions, Bournemouth, UK, 2018
  • “As Seen on TV: The Carol Burnett Show, Second Wave Feminism and the One-Two Punch to Advertising” SCMS, Toronto, 2018
  • “Blurring Boundaries and Breaking Binaries in Let the Right One In” SWPCA, Albuquerque, 2018
  • “Just a Woman: Feminist Perspectives in The Carol Burnett Show” PACA, San Diego, 2017
  • “Bury the Patriarchy: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry as Critique of 1950s America’s Cold War Values” SWPCA Albuquerque, 2017

Academic Awards

• UCLA Library Special Collections James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship, Spring 2024
• UCLA Library Special Collections James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship, Spring 2024
• James A. Sappenfield Fellowship Award, 2022-23
• Frederick J. Hoffman Award- Honorable Mention, 2021
• Staples Graduate Scholarship, UNT, 2017 MA Graduate Student Academic Excellence Award, UNT, 2016
• Media Arts Undergraduate Excellence Award, UNT, 2014