CV Highlights
Scholarship
Selected Conference Papers
-Reed, A. (2019, July). The dissemination of White supremacist rhetoric in YouTube videos regarding Star Wars: The Last Jedi. National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar, Tampa, Florida-
-Reed, A. (2019, July). Dividing the fandom: Memes as tools of visual argumentation in r/SequelMemes. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Madrid, Spain.
-Reed, A. & Koushik, K. (2018, June). Hollywood’s contradictory year: 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, and the modern commodification of women’s social movements. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Eugene, Oregon.
-Reed, A. (2018, Feb.). Interstellar, manifest destiny, and the extension of the Holocene. Presented at the annual New York University Graduate Student Cinema Studies conference, New York, New York.
Teaching
Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Florida State University
2016-present
-Media Techniques-Distance learning (Instructor of record)
-Communication and Gender (Instructor of record)
-Political Economy of Media (Instructor of record)
-Introduction to Mass Media-Distance learning (Instructor of record)
-The Art and Politics of Adaption
-Fundamentals of Speech
-Online Communication and Presence
Graduate Research Assistant. Florida State University
2016-2018
-Inspirational media research study
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Wright State University
2015-2016
-Critical Thinking
-Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Education
Spring 2020: Ph.D., Communication, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Dissertation: "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars films"
Primary area of study: Media studies
Secondary area of study: Cultural and rhetorical studies
April 2016: M. Hum., Emphasis Philosophy, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Thesis: "The Feminine Sublime in 21st Century Surrealist Cinema"
April 2016: Graduate Certificate Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Concentration: Women's studies
December 2013: B.A., magna cum laude, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Major: Motion picture history, theory, and criticism