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This post originally appeared on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog on April 9, 2008. 

This year at the PCA/ACA conference, I presented work that originated from my Master's thesis project, which you can find more about here and here on the subject.

This post originally appeared on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog on April 9, 2008.  

One project that really caught my eye at this years soap opera area at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference in San Francisco was from Marsha Ducey at the State University of New York--Buffalo, whose project was entitled "As the World Turns: 'Indecency' in American Soap Operas."

This post originally appeared on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog on April 2, 2008.

This semester at MIT, I'm teaching a course on the history of U.S. soap operas, based on the work I've published here on the blog over the past couple of years, my Master's thesis project, etc. The class includes a few MIT undergraduates and a Harvard undergraduate, as we look at the history of and contemporary state of the U.S. soap opera through reading and discussing the history of soap opera scholarship and soaps.

This post originally appeared on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog on March 21, 2008. 

For a couple of weeks now, I've been planning to include some notes here on the Consortium's blog about a few of the sessions I had the opportunity to attend at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago. The event was a great opportunity to see many friends and colleagues, and it gave me a chance to learn more about the current state of a variety of research projects, as well as hear about some new projects and meet some interesting new faces as well. In the following series of posts over the next few days, I wanted to transform some of my random notes about the conference into a recap of sorts.