Women's Studies Affiliate Faculty
Caren DemingPh.D., Professor, Department of Media Arts
Caren Deming is a Professor in the Media Arts Department. Notable publications include "Bar Talk: Gender Discourse in Cheers!" (with Mercilee M. Jenkins) in Television Criticism: Media in Society: Readings in Mass Communication, co-edited with Samuel L. Becker; "For Television-Centered Television Criticism: Lessons from Feminism" in Communication Yearbook 11; "Hill Street Blues as Narrative" in Critical Studies in Mass Communication; "Miscegenation in Popular Western History and Fiction" in Women in Western Literature; "Television and Human Fantasy Life: Implications for the Developing World" in Telecommunications in Transcultural Perspective; "Chasing the Popular Arts Through the Critical Forest" (with Billie Wahlstrom) in Journal of Popular Culture; and "Cultural Analysis: Unmasking the Makings of Oppression" (with Billie Wahlstrom) in University of Michigan Papers in Women's Studies. Current research projects include a critical biography of broadcast pioneer Gertrude Berg and a critical sourcebook for researching and teaching Disney. Professor Deming was given the College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award in 1997.