Assistant Professor

Office: 231 Admin. Bldg.

Email: jenkinst@sacredheart.edu

Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University

Research Interests:
Television studies, British and American spy series and films, Cold War media culture, gender, and fan cultures.

Recent Courses Taught:
Introduction to Media Studies, Women and American Popular Culture, The Spy Genre in Film and Television, Technical Communications, Writing and American Popular Culture.

Recent Publications: 
“Re-writing Alias: A Comparative Look at the Series’ Media Tie-Ins and Fan Fiction.” Investigating Alias. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

“Presidential Twang: Thomas Jefferson’s Agrarian Ideal and Country Music.” Popular Music and Society 29.1 (February 2006): 55-68.

“James Bond’s Pussy and Anglo-American, Cold War Sexuality.” The Journal of American Culture 28.3 (September 2005): 309-317.

 “‘Potential Lesbians at Two O'Clock’: The Heterosexualization of Lesbianism in the Contemporary Teen Film.” The Journal of Popular Culture 38.3 (February 2005): 491-504.