| Biography
Marian Meyers
(Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1989) is Associate Professor
and an affiliated faculty member of the GSU Women’s
Studies Institute. Her book, Mediated Women: Representations
in Popular Culture (Hampton 1999) looks at the portrayal
of women across various media and genres. News Coverage
of Violence Against Women: Engendering Blame (Sage 1997)
reveals the detrimental impact of traditional news coverage
for the victims of domestic violence. Her research has also
been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication,
Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Communication,
Howard Journal of Communication, and Discourse and Society.
Meyers has accumulated fourteen years of reporting, writing,
and editing experience with newspapers and radio stations
in New York, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. She has also
served as media consultant for the Southern Regional Council,
the Center for Democratic Renewal, and the Amalgamated Clothing
and Textile Workers Union, and has presented her research
findings at a range of community and nonprofit forums. She
is Chair of the Feminist Scholarship of the International
Communication Association. Research Areas: Gender, Race,
Class and Sexual Orientation in the Mediated Representations
of Women and Minorities; Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies.
Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Public Communication),
M.A. (Mass Communication). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly
Taught: Feminist Media Studies, Audience Studies.
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