Victoria E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where she is affiliated faculty in African American Studies. She chairs the Department of Film and Media Studies (2009-2012 and 2013-2014). She was granted UCI’s School of Humanities Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education in 2012. Her scholarship and teaching focus on media representations of geography and identity; broadcast media history and theory; music and scoring in film and television; sport culture; corporate branding and identity; and entertainment law and media policy. Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (NYU Press, 2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award in 2009. Victoria is currently working on book projects and articles that examine the cultural history of U.S. television through the lens of sport media, and on the historic marketing of “masculine” sports culture to women (with a particular focus on the National Football League). Her forthcoming Sports Television will be published by Routledge. Please see: http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=492
Victoria E. Johnson
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Email: v.e.johnson@uci.edu