Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, & Media, Humanities
- PhD, New York University
Biography
Dr. Sue Collins' research interests include media and cultural history, political economy of media industries and popular culture, and critical cultural policy studies. She is currently working on a book entitled, Calling All Stars: A Cultural History of Hollywood, World War I, and the Politics of Authority. The project is concerned with how celebrity/star authority has become cultural commonsense. It traces the conditions under which movie stars and Hollywood have become adjuncts to state power to the WWI Liberty Loan Bond Drives, when government officials recruited the commercial film industry and its film stars to participate in war mobilization. Her work has appeared in Television & New Media, and in book chapters on celebrity and activism, war and propaganda, and film history.
She teach such courses as Media Industries, Globalization & Media, Popular Culture, and Communication Theory.