Jessica Hoover
Achieved Degrees
MA, Media Industry and Cultural Studies, University of North Texas, 2019
BA, History and Radio/TV/Film, University of North Texas, 2015
Teaching Experience
ENG 101: Introduction to College Writing
ENG 102: College Writing and Research
ENG 111 Entertainment Arts: Introduction to Film, Television, and Media
ENG 201: Strategies in Academic Writing
ENG/FS 291: Introduction to Television Studies
Interests
Film History, Television History, Feminist Media Studies, Humor Studies, Horror Studies, Cultural History, Gender History, Women's & Gender Studies, True Crime
Academic Awards
UWM Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship, 2022-23
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
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
“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
Publications
"Golden Memories: Narrative Complexity and Flashback Episodes in The Golden Girls" in Miller, Taylor Cole and Alfred L. Martin, Jr. eds. (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press.) The Golden Girls: Essays from the Lanai.