Faculty Member, Communication
Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Liberal Arts and Sciences
About
Brian L. Ott (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) is a teacher-scholar of media and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. His chief research interest concerns how media texts equip people to live their lives. Brian's research has appeared in journals such as Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Text and Performance Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, Western Journal of Communication, and Women's Studies in Communication. He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age and Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (with Robert Mack), as well as a co-editor of It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era and Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. He is a former Editor of the Western Journal of Communication and current First Vice-President of the Western States Communication Association.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rhetorical Studies: visual communication, public memory, museum studies, American West, spatiality, affect, materiality, pedagogy.
Media Studies: film and television studies, equipment for living, Information Age, pleasure, fandom, intertextuality, critical theory, medium theory.
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