Expertise

Most recently, I have been working with representations of trauma in media, including Orphan Black and the works of Joss Whedon. Concurrently I am working with issues of representation in Star Trek: Discovery and have a book contract with Rowman/Littlefield for said study. More generally, I am interested as well in the representation of race, gender, sexuality, and ability in literature and in media. I teach courses in American Studies, popular culture, gender studies, and film.


Media Availability

This researcher is available to speak to the media. Contact Lanaya Lewis, public information officer, at lanaya.lewis@csus.edu

Links

by Janet Brennan Croft (Editor), Alyson R. Buckman (Editor)
EDITED BY SHERRY GINN; ALYSON R. BUCKMAN AND HEATHER M. PORTER
Essay on Joss Whedon's internet sensation
Investigating Firefly and Serenity Science Fiction on the Frontier
Reading Joss Whedon, edited by Wilcox, Cochran, Masson, and Lavery
Waggoner, Erin, Ed. Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. p. 48-92.
A discussion of Octavia Butler's construction of the human and post-human body re: race, gender, sexuality
Sisterhood, Science and Surveillance in Orphan Black.

Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Humanities & Religious Studies

Education

American Studies
1985–1989, B.A., Wheaton College (Norton)
American Studies
1989–1999, M.A., Purdue University (West Lafayette)
American Studies
1989–1999, Ph.D., Purdue University (West Lafayette)