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After graduating from Bloom
High School in Chicago Heights, IL, I received a B.A. in Humanities
(Cinema Studies Option) from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. I then attended the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, where I received my M.A. (1995) and Ph.D.
(2001) in Film Studies. I have been a professor in the Dept. of Film,
Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame since Fall 2001.
I specialize in film and television history, and I am
particularly interested in the industrial and cultural relationships
between film and television and between contemporary American and British
television.
My first book, entitled It's
the Pictures That Got Small (Wesleyan University Press, 2008),
offers an analysis of the role of Hollywood film stars on 1950s television.
My next project will be a comparative study of how the British and American
broadcast television networks have responded to the pressures brought
by new competitors and new technologies over the past two decades.