Jorie Lagerwey

Dr. Jorie Lagerwey is Associate Professor of Television Studies in University College Dublin. She holds an M.A. & Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and a B.A. in History from Duke. She is co-author of Horrible White People: Gender, Genre, & Television's Precarious Whiteness (NYU Press 2020) and Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood: Brand Mom (Routledge 2016). Her research and teaching focuses on contemporary representations of gender, race, and class in media and pop culture. Her work has been published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Television and New Media, and several anthologies. She lives in Dublin where she raises pints and watches a lot of TV.