Sharon Sharp
Assistant Professor of Communications
SAC 1164 | 310.243.2583 | ssharp@csudh.edu
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 1:30-3:30

EDUCATION

2006 Ph.D., Film and Television, with a Concentration in Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2000 M.A., Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
1992 B.A., Magna Cum Laude, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Media history and theory
• Cultural studies
• Gender, race, and media
• Media industries

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research focus is geared toward exploring how cultural constructions of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity intersect with media narratives, particularly in terms of how film and television mediate understandings of the past and present. My current book project, Yesterday Now: Television, Nostalgia, and the Mediation of the American Past examines how U.S. television circulates narratives about the nation's past and present through a framework of nostalgia that structures both televisual narratives and industry programming practices.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

Yesterday Now: Television, Nostalgia, and the Mediation of the American Past. Book in progress.

"Fembot Feminism: The Cyborg Body and Feminist Discourse in The Bionic Woman." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  36.1 (2007): 1-17.

"Disciplining the Housewife in Desperate Housewives andDomestic Reality Television." Reading Desperate Housewives. Ed. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 119-128.

RECENT AND UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

"Nostalgia for the Future: Retrofuturism in U.S. Network Science Fiction Television."
Science Fiction Research Association. Lawrence: July 2008

"Televisual Time Travels: Industrial Nostalgia and the Migration of Television."
Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism, Television, New Media and Audio. Santa Barbara: April 2007.
                       
"Home, Gender, and Genre: The Case of Domestic Reality Television." Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association. Los Angeles: April 13, 2007.

"Engendering Nostalgia: Television, Gender, and the Politics of Remembering." Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism, Television, New Media and Audio. Milwaukee: May 25, 2006.

"Mapping the City, Gender, and Nation in the Cabaretera Film." Thinking Gender Conference. University of California, Los Angeles: March 3, 2006.

"Desperately Seeking the Housewife: The Production of the 'New' Television Housewife." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. London: April 2, 2005.