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Mimi White

  Professor, Radio/Television/Film

m-white@northwestern.edu

Frances Searle Building
Room 1-154
2240 Campus Drive
Evanston , IL 60208-2952
(847) 491-2569

1800 Sherman
Room 404
Evanston , IL 60201
(847) 467-1161

Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-3:00 pm

Education:
YearDegreeInstitution
B.A. Brown University
M.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of Iowa

Biography:
Professor White's research and teaching areas include: film, television, media theory; feminist theory and film/television/popular culture; mass culture studies; issues in media historiography.

Work Experience:
1995 - Present Professor Northwestern University, Department of Radio/Television/Film
2004 - 2005 Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies University of Helsinki
1998 - 2002 Department Chair Northwestern University, Department of Radio/Television/Film
1996 - 1999 Director Women's Studies Program
March, 1996 - June, 1996 Visiting Professor University of Jyvaskyla
September, 1994 - December, 1994 Fullbright Scholar University of Helsinki and University of Tampere
1989 - 1992 Department Chair Northwestern University, Department of Radio/Television/Film

Recent Publications:
White, Mimi (2004). "The Attractions of Television: Reconsidering Liveness: in Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, eds., Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age. Routledge.

White, Mimi (2002). "Flows and Other Close Encounters with Telelvision." in Kumar, Shanti and Parks, Lisa, eds., Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader. New York University Press.

Cassidy, Marsha and White, Mimi (2002). "Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis". Camera Obscura.

White, Mimi (2000). "Indy and Mike: Is Boy to Global World History as Woman is to Domestic National Myth?". Film and History.

White, Mimi (2000). "Television Liveness: History, Banality, Attractions". Spectator.

Mimi White (1998). Reliving the Past Over and Over Again’: Race, Gender, and Popular Memory in Homefront and I’ll Fly Away in Torres, ed. Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television . Duke.

Mimi White (1998). Salokangas et. al., eds., Writing Media Histories: Nordic Views in Unforgettable...: Television, Memory, History. Jyvaskyla University.

Mimi White (1997). “Televisio, Terapia, Laeaeketiede: Sociaalisen, Subjectiviteetin, Teknologioista,” (translation of “Technologies of Social Subjectivity: Television, Therapy, Medicine”) in Tiedotustutkimus. Journal of Communication, Finland.

Mimi White (1995). A Skater is Being Beaten in Baughman, ed., Women on Ice: Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle . Routledge.

Mimi White (1994). Women, Memory, and Serial Melodrama in Screen. .

Mimi White (1992). Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television . University of North Carolina Press.

Mimi White, with James Schwoch and Susan Reilly (1992). Media Knowledge: Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Critical Citizenship . SUNY Press.

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