Dr. Lauren Bratslavsky
Associate Professor
Office
FEL Fell Hall 457
Office Hours
T/Th 12:30-1:30 pm and by appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
COM 320.001 Mass Media: Cultural Criticism And Problems
COM 420.001 Mass Media: Cultural Criticism And Problems
HON 205.002 Advanced Honors Seminar: Interdisciplinary Investigations
COM 396.001 Capstone In Mass Media
COM 396.002 Capstone In Mass Media
COM 317.001 Digital Post Production
COM 334.001 Film Festival Management and Curation
COM 434.001 Film Festival Management and Curation
COM 400.027 Independent Study
COM 240.001 Introduction To Visual Communication
Teaching Interests & Areas
broadcast history, feminist media studies, television studies, visual communication, media literacy, visual literacy
Research Interests & Areas
historical and contemporary television, media archives, media ecology
Ph D
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
MS
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
Other Interdisciplinary Studies
Miami University
Oxford, OH
University Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2016
Grants and Contracts
Instructional Innovation Grant: SOC Book Club
Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Byron Craig, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - August 2022
University Teaching Grant: SOC EDI Learning Community Pilot
Byron Craig, Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - June 2023
Book, Chapter
30 Rock and the satirical representation of the television industry
Lauren Bratslavsky.
(2020), A companion to television, 2nd, Wiley
The Cosby Show, Race, and Masculinity
M Real, Lauren Bratslavsky.
(2016), In Dalton, M. M., & Linder, L. R. (eds.) The sitcom reader: America viewed and skewed, 2nd Edition, NYU Press
Negotiating neoliberal intersectional identity in NBC’s Superstore
Lauren Bratslavsky.
209-228, Neoliberalism, social class and the media, Routledge
Journal Article
Broadcast History Gaps When Archival Material Exists: Inserting Peg Lynch and Ethel and Albert into Sitcom History
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Journal of 20th Century Media History, 1 (1), 46-72, (2023)
A Historical Tracing of (In)Civility in American Presidential Rhetoric
Joseph Zompetti, Lauren Bratslavsky.
Northwest Journal of Communication, (2019)
Twitter, Incivility, and Presidential Communication: A Theoretical Incursion into Spectacle and Power
Lauren Bratslavsky, Nathan Carpenter, Joseph Zompetti.
Cultural Studies, (2019), 10.1080/09502386.2019.1656760
What is Television? Special Issue
Lauren Bratslavsky, J Wasko.
Journal of Communication Inquiry, 36 (4), (2012)
In Defense of the Crude: Why Bob’s Burgers Beats Out the Rest
Lauren Bratslavsky.
MediaCommons: In Media Res., (2011)
The Archive and Disciplinary Formation: A Historical Moment in Defining Mass Communications
Lauren Bratslavsky.
American Journalism, 32 (2)
The strategically ambiguous assignment: an approach to promoting critical and creative thinking in visual communication
Lauren Bratslavsky, Anna Wright, Alexander Kritselis, David Luftig.
38 (4), 285-304, 10.1080/1051144X.2019.1673999
Other
In Memoriam: Peg Lynch and Her Records of Broadcast History
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture, (2015)
Presentations
Driving Las Vegas: News Coverage of Uber’s Clash with Unions in Sin City
Jessalynn Strauss, Lauren Bratslavsky.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2016
Media Materiality and the Possibilities for a Medium to be Preserved in Archives
Lauren Bratslavsky.
What is Media? Experience, Exploration, Emergence, Portland, OR, April, 2016
The Industry-Initiated TV Archive: A History of the Museum of Broadcasting
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, March, 2016
How Television Entered Academic Archives in the ‘Golden Age’ of Collecting Popular Culture
Lauren Bratslavsky.
International Association for Media and History, Bloomington, IN, June, 2015
Recovered Visual Records and Expanded Histories: How Ethel and Albert Broadens Sitcom History
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, CA, March, 2015
The ‘New’ Sexualities of Women-Produced Sitcoms: Situating Today’s Texts in Industrial and Textual Histories
Lauren Bratslavsky.
National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November, 2014
The Archive and Disciplinary Formation: A Case Study
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Defining Mass Communications International Communication Association, Seattle, WA, May, 2014
New Media’s Impact on the Social Television Experience: Community Responses to News Involving Cancellations and Firings
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April, 2014
Soft Hands and Soft Westerns: The True Stories of Death Valley Days, 1930-‐72 Society
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Cinema and Media Studies, Online, March, 2014
The Afterthought in the Archive: Tracing the Inclusion of Television in the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March, 2013
It’s Not Rocket Science! Utilizing Non-‐expert Volunteers
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Media Archives (panelist) Association for Moving Image Archivists, Seattle, WA, December, 2012
Turnoff Everything: The Challenges and Consequences of Going on a Complete and Extended Media Fast
Lauren Bratslavsky, Harsha Gangadharbatla, Darshan Sawant.
Top Paper Award, Mass Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL, August, 2012
(Re)Discovering the Analog: Investigating Archives in the Age of Digitization
Lauren Bratslavsky, Benjamin Birkinbine.
International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ, May, 2012
Ethel and Albert: A Case Study in Forgotten TV History
Lauren Bratslavsky.
International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ, May, 2012
Conceptualizing TV’s Value and TV Itself Through the Internet and Archives
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Yale Conference On Television, New Haven, CT, February, 2012
Retrieving a Tool from the Past to Examine the Present and Consider the Future
Lauren Bratslavsky.
McLuhan’s Tetrad, Information, and the Internet National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November, 2011
Teasing More Than the News: The Promotion of Network and Corporate Interests Within Network News Programs
Lauren Bratslavsky, Kathleen Ryan, Joy Mayape.
National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November, 2011
Is that Supposed to be Funny? Sarah Silverman’s Standout Delivery in The Aristocrats
Lauren Bratslavsky.
Top Student Paper Award, Feminist Studies Division, Boston, MA, May, 2011