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Michaela D.E. Meyer

Honors Program - Department of Communication

Michaela Smithson

Professor

Luter Hall 268
(757) 594-7214
mmeyer@cnu.edu

Education

  • Ph D in Communication, Ohio University
  • MS in Journalism, Ohio University
  • Ph B in International Studies, Miami University

Teaching

Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Interpersonal Communication

Research

Critical Media Studies, LGBTQ Issues, Television & Film, Emerging Adulthood, Relational Aggression, Narrative and Autoethnographic Approaches

Biography

Professor, Pop Culture Aficionado, Amateur Ceramicist, Karaoke Enthusiast

Selected Accomplishments

  • Outstanding Scholarship Award in Sexuality and Gender Identity, Central States Communication Association. (2025)
  • Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Service, CNU. (2023)
  • Innovator Award for Edited Collection, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus of CSCA. (2021)
  • James W. Chesebro Award for Scholarly Distinction, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus of CSCA. (2021)
  • Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award for 2016, National Communication Association. (2016)
  • CNU Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Student Writing, CNU Writing Council. (2014)
  • Randy Majors Memorial Award, National Communication Association. (2013)
  • NCA Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns’ Lambda Award, National Communication Association. (2011)
  • Alumni Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, CNU Alumni Society. (2009)
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2025). Intersectional Representations of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Television: Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Korean Media, and Disability Discourses. Pennsylvania Communication Annual. Volume, 80. Pages, 59-78.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2025). “It’s Barbie and it’s Ken,” Unpacking Greta Gerwig’s Signature Style as a Feminist Film Auteur. Communication Studies.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2025). Audience Sense-Making of Relational Aggression in the film Mean Girls: Bridging Conversations in Critical Media Studies and Interpersonal Communication. Southern Communication Journal.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2025). The Paradoxical Corrective Failures of That 90s Show: Reboots and Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television. Rowman and Littlefield. Pages, 65-82.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2025). The Intersection of LGBTQ+ Identities and Popular Culture: Examining the Stigmas, Stories and Social Realities of Mediated Health Discourses. Routledge. Pages, 98-112.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2024). Communicative Interventions for Autistic Employees in Academic Workplaces: Improving DEI Initiatives with Practical Solutions. Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture. Volume, 6. Issue, 1. Pages, Article 4.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022). The Cost of Winning the Pregnancy Lottery: An Autoethnographic Account of How My Life was Consumed by Secondary Infertility. Journal of Autoethnography. Volume, 3. Issue, 4. Pages, 544-560.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2020). Making Out of Reach Homes Reachable: The Neoliberal Politics and Ideologies of Home Ownership in Fixer Upper. Texas Speech Communication Journal. Volume, 44. Pages, 32-43.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2020). Representing Illness in Medical Melodramas on Television: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Medical Diagnoses in Grey’s Anatomy. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2020). Black Panther, Erasure and Intersectional Representation in Popular Culture. Review of Communication. Volume, 18. Issue, 3. Pages, 236-243.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2019). When a Television Series Misses the Mark: Identity Politics, Whiteness and Televisual Representations in Off the Map. Pennsylvania Communication Annual. Volume, 75. Issue, 2. Pages, 55-70.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2019). Paradoxically for the People: Television Showrunning, Artistic Signatures and Auteurs in Shondaland. Carolinas Communication Annual. Volume, 35. Pages, 48-62.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2018). Soundtracking ShondalandTelevisual identity mapped through music. Rutger's University Press. Pages, 79-97.
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    (2018). Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation. Rutger's University Press. Pages, 278.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2018). The Good Wife’s Fatalistic Feminism: Televised Feminist Failures in Work/Life Balance, Romance, and Feminist Alliances. Peter Lang. Pages, 205-222.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2016). The paradox of time post-pregnancy loss: Three things not to say when communicating social support. Health Communication. Volume, 31. Pages, 1426-1429.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2015). The “Other” woman in contemporary television drama: Analyzing intersectional representation on Bones. Sexuality and Culture. Volume, 19. Issue, 900-915.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2015). A Tale of Two Pregnancies: Reproductive Time, Identity and Interpersonal Relationships Post-Pregnancy Loss. Peter Lang’s Health Communication Series edited by Gary Kreps. Pages, 135-150.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2014). Relational aggression on film: An intersectional analysis of Mean Girls.. The Popular Culture Studies Journal. Volume, 2. Pages, 5-34.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2014). The fantasy of Sex and the City: A postcolonial critique of the romantic imaginary, consumerism and globalization. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Volume, 43. Pages, 425-439.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2013). Sexuality and teen television: Emerging adults respond to representations of queer identity on Glee.. Sexuality and Culture. Volume, 17. Issue, 3. Pages, 434-448.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2011). Gender, media and madness: Reading a rhetoric of women in crisis through Foucauldian theory. Review of Communication. Volume, 11. Issue, 3. Pages, 216-228.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2010). Representing bisexuality: Exploring intersectionality in television targeted to emerging adults.. Journal of Bisexuality.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2013). Media, sexuality and identity: Thoughts on the role text, audience and production play in cultural discourse.. Sexuality and Culture. Volume, 17. Issue, 3. Pages, 379-383.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2013). Sexuality and teen television: Emerging adults respond to representations of queer identity on Glee.. Sexuality and Culture. Volume, 17. Issue, 3. Pages, 434-448.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2013). Slashing Smallville: The interplay of text, audience and production on viewer interpretations of homoeroticism.. Sexuality and Culture. Volume, 17. Issue, 3. Pages, 476-493.
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