Melissa Ames

Melissa Ames is the Director of English Education and a Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University. She specializes in media studies, television scholarship, Internet studies, popular culture, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Her most recent publications include her books Women and Language (McFarland, 2011), Time in Television Narrative (University of Mississippi Press, 2012), and How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life (Palgrave, 2016); chapters in Grace Under Pressure: Grey’s Anatomy Uncovered (2008), Writing the Digital Generation (2010), Bitten by Twilight (2010), Manufacturing Phobias (2016), Adventures in Shondaland (2018), Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom (2018), and the Computers & Writing Proceedings (2018); and articles in The Journal of Dracula Studies (2011), The Women and Popular Culture Encyclopedia (2012), The High School Journal (2013), The Journal of Popular Culture (2014), Feminist Media Studies (2017), and Pedagogy (2017).