Editorial Board

Joy Hamilton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Studies. Interests include environmental humanities, political economy, tourism, and service-learning pedagogy. Her PhD research is focused on tourism in Colorado and how it intersects with race, class, gender, and place. Joy teaches undergraduate course Media Literacy, Interviewing and Communication and Public Speaking. Follow Joy on Twitter @Joy_Hamilton

Megan Yahnke is pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received her MA in Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she developed a passion for teaching. She values intersectional feminist approaches to media. Currently, she studies media representations of female sexuality and reproduction. She also examines media’s relationship to feminist activism.

Heidi Zimmerman joined the Teaching Media Quarterly editorial board in 2013 as a Ph.D. student in the University of Minnesota's Department of Communication Studies, and has continued to serve since graduating in 2015. She is a feminist media studies scholar, specializing in ethical, environmental, and food related media. Both her teaching and scholarship are motivated by the question of how media are caught up in matters of citizenship and governance in contemporary culture. She is particularly interested in the way in which media, in this capacity, are structured by larger power relations that are, among other things, racialized, gendered and classed.

Caroline Bayne is a graduate student in the department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include feminist media studies, subcultural studies, gendered labor, affect, and feminist forms of self-publishing. Her current research focuses on bathroom graffiti in clubs and music venues around Minneapolis, the ways women use these precariously public and private spaces to collectively generate knowledge about their community, and its situation in the lineage feminist forms of self-publishing.

Past Editors

Rebecca A. Jurisz has a PhD from the University of Minnesota where she teaches video production. Her research looks at the ways in which femininity and citizenship are constituted through television. Follow Rebecca on Twitter @rebeccajurisz

Elena D. Hristova is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She holds a graduate minor in American Studies and teaches classes in Critical Media Studies and U.S. Visual Culture. Elena’s research focuses on Critical Whiteness Studies, women’s labor, and media history. Follow Elena on Twitter @ElenaDHristova

Mia Fischer was a TMQ founding member and was an editorial board member from 2012-2014. Mia Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersections of critical media, sports, queer, and surveillance studies. Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Sexualities, and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues among other places. Follow Mia on Twitter: @MiaFischer

Kate Ranachan was an editor of Teaching Media Quarterly from 2012-2013. Her research examines the intersection of sport, media, and globalization. She is currently a lecturer in the Communication Studies department at the University of Minnesota. Follow Kate on Twitter: @kate_ranachan

Lauren M. Weinzimmer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She earned her M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2014) and her dual B.A. in Communication and English Literature at the University of Southern California (2010). Her dissertation explores YouTube beauty vlogging as an industry and locates the practice within discourses of new media production, digital labor, and female entrepreneurialism. Follow Lauren on Twitter @lweinz

Jacquelyn Arcy, Assistant Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University

Jules Wight, Graduate Instructor in Communication Studies, University of Minnesota

Heather Hayes, Chair of Rhetoric Studies, Whitman College

Melody Hoffmann, Instructor of Communication, Anoka-Ramsey Community College