Elizabeth Affuso

Elizabeth Affuso is Academic Director of Intercollegiate Media Studies at The Claremont Colleges, where she teaches Media Studies at Pitzer College. Her research explores beauty, fashion, fandom, and branding in contemporary culture. She is co-editor with Suzanne Scott of Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (2023). Her work has appeared in scholarly journals including JumpCut and Film Criticism, where she co-edited the special issue on "Films and Merchandise" (2018) with Avi Santo. She has published chapters in edited collections including Documenting Fashion (ed. Elena Caoduro and Boel Ulfsdotter, 2023), Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail (ed. Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson, 2019), and The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (ed. Melissa Click and Suzanne Scott, 2018).