Associate Professor of Communication and Media and Associate Professor of Film, Television and Media, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
About
Hollis Griffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan, where he teaches and researches television, new media and cultural politics, particularly as they intersect with questions of sexual identity and desire. His book, Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age (Indiana, 2017), was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by Choice, the publication of the American Library Association. Hollis has published research in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal), Feminist Media Histories, Popular Communication, Television & New Media, Journal of Popular Film and Television and the anthologies The Companion to Reality Television (Wiley) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. His current research has two streams: the first involves the role of television in the gentrification of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s; the second involves the politics of affect and emotion as they are made manifest on social media. Hollis is very active in the field of media studies, having served as Associate Editor for the journal Communication, Culture, and Critique, as well as on the editorial boards of Film Criticism and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. Currently, he sits on the Board of Directors for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, where he serves as Secretary.
