{"id":24,"date":"2017-06-14T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:56:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cultures of English-Language Comedy Symposium is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/englishdramafilm\/\">School of English, Drama &amp; Film at University College Dublin<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/ftt.nd.edu\/\">the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame<\/a>. The symposium will take place on 16-17 November 2017 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/international.nd.edu\/global-gateways\/london\/\">Notre Dame London Global Gateway<\/a>. The co-organizers of the symposium are Dr. Christine Becker and Dr. Jorie Lagerwey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:cbecker1@nd.edu\">Christine Becker<\/a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame specializing in film and television history and critical analysis. Her book <em>It\u2019s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television<\/em> (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2011 IAMHIST Michael Nelson Prize for a Work in Media and History. She is currently working on a research project exploring issues of cultural taste in contemporary American and British television. She is also the Associate Online Editor for <em>Cinema Journal<\/em> and runs the <em>News For TV Majors<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\"><a href=\"mailto:jorie.lagerwey@ucd.ie\">Jorie Lagerwey<\/a> is a Lecturer in Television Studies in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. She is the author of \u00a0<i>Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood: Brand Mom, <\/i>which analyzes contemporary representations of motherhood in celebrity brands and reality television.\u00a0<\/span>H<span>er work has appeared in <i>Cinema Journal, Television and New Media<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Studies in Popular Culture<\/i>,<i>\u00a0<\/i>and elsewhere. Dr. Lagerwey&#8217;s primary research interests are in the representations of gender, race, and religion on television and other digital media; discourses of quality on TV and online; and celebrity culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cultures of English-Language Comedy Symposium is co-sponsored by the School of English, Drama &amp; Film at University College Dublin\u00a0and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. The symposium will take place on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/tvcomedy2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}