Department of Popular Culture 108 Popular Culture Building Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403-0190 http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/ bcragin at bgsu dot edu 419.372.7860
2002 Ph.D., Women’s Studies, “Speaking the Self: Lesbian and Gay Viewers of TV Talk Shows,” Emory University, Chair: Julie Abraham
1996 M.A., Women’s Studies, Emory University
1995 Doctoral Exams: Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies; Lesbian and Gay Studies
1992 B.A., Sociology and Anthropology with High Honors, Concentration in Women’s Studies, Swarthmore College
Publications
Cragin, Becca (forthcoming in 2010) “Beyond the Feminine: Intersectionality and Hybridity in Talk Shows,” Women’s Studies in Communication
Cragin, Becca (2009) “Noirish Inversions: Investigation and Victimization in The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct,” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 2
Cragin, Becca (2009) Review of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, edited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, in The Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 90-92
Cragin, Becca (2008) “The (Not So) Good Old Days: Race and Sexuality on Old-Style Talk Shows,” Popular Culture Review, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 37-50
Cragin, Becca (2006) Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by Ilana Nash, in The Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 286-288
Cragin, Becca (2005) “Lesbians and Serial TV: Ellen Finds Her Inner Adult” in The New Queer Aesthetic on Television: Essays on Recent Programming, eds. James Keller and Leslie Stratyner, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, pp. 193-208
Cragin, Becca (2005) Review of Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture by Eva Illouz, in The Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 78-80
Cragin, Becca (2000) “Compulsory Heterosexuality” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, p. 200
Cragin, Becca (2000) “Lesbian Continuum” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, p. 456
Cragin, Becca (2000) “Woman-Identified-Woman” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland, New York, pp. 807-808
Cragin, Becca and Simonds, Wendy (1999) “The Study of Gender in Culture: Feminist Studies/Cultural Studies” in Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, ed. Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Plenum, New York, pp. 195-212 [primary author]
Cragin, Becca (1997) “Post-Lesbian-Feminism: Documenting ‘Those Cruddy Old Dykes of Yore’” in Carryin’ On in the Lesbian and Gay South, ed. John Howard, New York University, New York, pp. 285-327
