Taylor Nygaard

Dr. Taylor Nygaard is an adjunct instructor in film and media studies at the University of Denver and at Arizona State University. She holds a M.A. & Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric and Film Studies. She is co-author of Horrible White People: Gender, Genre, & Television's Precarious Whiteness (NYU Press 2020). Her research and teaching focuses on contemporary representations of gender, race, and class in media and pop culture, paying particular interest to emerging media industry trends. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Television and New Media, and several anthologies. She lives in Colorado Springs, CO and teaches in a variety of capacities as she raises her son and works as a story producer.