» Rachel Dubrofsky's first book, The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, has been released by Rowman & Littlefield. The book is part of Rowman & Littlefield's Critical Studies in Television series, edited by Mark Andrejevic.

» Elizabeth Bell has accepted appointment as the Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at USF effective August 2011.

» We are pleased to welcome two additional Postdoctoral Scholars as part of the Provost’s 2011-12 Postdoctoral Initiative in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Global Change in a Dynamic World: Past, Present, and Future. Manoucheka Celeste's work draws on African American Literary Theory, Diaspora Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Gender Studies. Her dissertation interrogates how media construct ideal citizens through an understanding of the immigrant experience and movement across boundaries in intercultural settings. David Morris received his PhD in May 2010 in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa. Most recently he has been on a fellowship at Tokyo University of the Arts, working on turning his dissertation into a book. His areas of specialization include globalization, especially East Asia, postcolonialism, and hybridity. His dissertation is an ethnographic study of the impact of the African Diaspora on Japan, specifically through the influence and reproduction of hip hop music. Karen Greiner is in her second year in the Department on the Provost’s Doctoral Initiative from 2010-11.

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» Emmett Winn (PhD 1999) will deliver the 2011 Honorary Alumni Lecture on Friday, October 28th. Dr. Winn is professor of communication and Associate Provost at Auburn University.