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JIM CASTONGUAY - CHAIR

Chair of the Media Studies and Digital Culture Department
Associate Professor

Office:  220 Admin. Bldg.

Email: castonguayj@sacredheart.edu

Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Research and Teaching Interests:
Global media culture, and the role of film, television, and the Internet in U.S and international media culture.

Recent Classes Taught:
Introduction to Communication and Technology Studies, Introduction to Media Studies, History of Broadcasting, History of Journalism, Digital Culture, Senior Capstone in Communication and Technology Studies, Media and Democracy, and Senior Project I 

Recent Publications:

"Myrna Loy and William Powell: Class, Urbanity, and the Hollywood Screen Couple." Stars of the 1930s. Eds. Adrienne McLean and Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (forthcoming).

"Global Media, Communication Technology, and the War on Terror", Global-E: A Global Studies Journal (February 2008).

"Intermedia and the War on Terror,"  Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror. Eds. Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 151-178.

"The Spanish-American War and United States Media Culture." Hollywood and War: The Film Reader. Ed. J. David Slocum. New York: Routledge, 2006) 97-108.
 

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