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Julie Levin Russo

Email Address

Julie_Russo@brown.edu

Website

http://j-l-r.org

Biography

Year entered: 2003

Dissertation: "Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities."

Julie is Acting Assistant Professor of new media in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University beginning January 2010. Her dissertation is entitled "Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities." Her other recent projects have included contributing to the editorial team of Transformative Works and Cultures
(http://journal.transformativeworks.org), serving as a HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Scholar for 2008-2009 (http://www.hastac.org), and co-editing a special Battlestar Galactica issue of the online journal FlowTV (http://flowtv.org/?cat=127). She has presented on such
topics as media convergence, online TV fandom, and cybersexuality at numerous conferences, and her work has been published in Camera Obscura and Cinema Journal, among others.