Bambi Haggins, Ph.D.
77 W. Edgemont Ave.
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
[email protected]
734 330-9057
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2009-
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, Department of English,
Arizona State University
2009-10
Interim Director/Director, Program in Film & Media Studies, Arizona
State University
2007-08
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Screen Arts & Cultures
2006-08
Graduate Director, University of Michigan, Screen Arts & Cultures
2000-07
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Screen Arts & Cultures [Joint
Appointment with Communications Studies, 2000-2001]
1995, 1998-9 Visiting Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles,
Department of Communication
1985-93
History Teacher, Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury,
Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2000
Ph.D., Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
1996
Master of Arts, Film and Television, University of California,
Los Angeles
1985
Master of Arts, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1983
Bachelor of Arts, American Studies, Stanford University, Stanford,
California
PUBLICATIONS
Single Authored Book
1.
Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post Soul America.
(Rutgers University Press, Feb. 2007)
Received the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for outstanding film
and media studies scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media
Studies
2.
“Black Laughter Matters: Comedy and Blackness in the Age of Obama”
(In Progress)
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
1.
“Regarding Black Audiences: Qualitative Approaches to Studying Black
Media Consumption," with Catherine Squires in Researching Black
Communities: A Methodological Guide, James S. Jackson, Cleopatra
Howard Caldwell and Sherrill L. Sellers (Eds.)
(University of Michigan Press 2012)
2.
“In The Wake of the Nigger Pixie: Dave Chappelle & The Politics of
Cross Over Comedy” in Satire TV, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey Jones,
Ethan Thompson, (Eds.) (NYU Press 2009)
3.
“HBO Comedy: At Home on the Cutting Edge” with Amanda D. Lotz in
The Essential HBO Reader, G. Edgerton and JP Jones (Eds.) (University
of Kentucky Press, 2008)
4.
“In Another Part of the Cultural Ghetto: A Telephile’s Notes.”
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. (Fall 2004).
5.
“Laughing Mad: The Black Comedian’s Place In Post Civil Rights Era
American Comedy” in Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader edited by
Frank Krutnik (Routledge, 2003)
6.
"Apocrypha Meets the Pentagon Papers: The Ideological Appeal of The
X-Files to the X-Phile," University Film and Video Studies Association
Journal. (Winter 2001-2002).
8.
“Why Beulah And Andy Still Play: Minstrelsy In The New Millennium”
In the second of two special issues on “Globalism, Convergence And
Identity,” of Emergences: Journal For The Study Of Media & Composite
Cultures. (May 2001).
9.
“There’s No Place Like Home: African American Identity, The Situation
Comedy And The American Dream” in the “Ideologies” issue of Velvet
Light Trap. (Issue 43, 1999).
10.
“Transforming The Mythos: Homefront Viewers Rethink The American
Dream” In Emergences: Journal For The Study Of Media & Composite
Cultures. (May 1999),
Non-Refereed Chapters/Articles
1.
“The Multichannel Transition, 1980s-1990s” (with Julia Himberg) in
Blackwell Companion to History of US Broadcasting. Ed. Aniko
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Bodroghkozy (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2017)
2.
“Losing Cosby,” Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media
Culture Vol. 2 Issue 1. Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the
University of Texas at Austin. http://flowtv.org/2015/10/losing-cosby/
3.
“Ima Be Me”: The Comedic Work of Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes” in
Hysterical! Women in American Comedy. Eds. L. Mizejewski and V.
Sturtevant (UT Press forthcoming 2017)
4.
“Not A Good Fella: Experiencing Spectatorial Pleasure with
Displeasure”in Blackwell Companion to The Films of Martin Scorsese,
Aaron Baker, editor (forthcoming Blackwell 2015)
5.
“Charm City Stories: ‘RealFeel’ and Homicide: Life on the Streets” in
How To Watch Television, Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittel, (Eds.)
(NYU Press 2013)
6.
“Crossover Diva: Whoopi Goldberg and Persona Politics” in Persistence
of Whiteness edited by Daniel Bernardi (Routledge 2007)
7.
“Afterword: Television In The Age of Digital: New Frontier And Brave
New World” in the first of two special issues on “Globalism, Convergence
And Identity,” of Emergences: Journal For The Study Of Media &
Composite Cultures. (November 2001).
In Progress
1.
“Goodbye, Exemplarism: Shady is the New Black” in Race Post-Race:
Culture, Critique, and the Color Line. Eds. S. Banet-Weiser, H. Gray and
R. Mukherjee (forthcoming).
Book Review
1.
The Cultural Politics of colorblind TV Casting, Kristen J. Warner,
Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 22 (2016) (online)
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/962/627
2.
Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe,
Timothy Havens Cinema Journal Volume 53, Number 4, Summer 2014
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Encyclopedia Entries
1.
“Sitcoms” in African Americans and Popular Culture, Vol.1: Theater,
Film & Television. T. Boyd, ed. (Praeger 2008).
2.
“UPN” in The Encyclopedia of Television, Horace Newcomb ed.
(Routledge, 2004).
GRANTS AND HONORS
1.
Institute for Humanities Research Fellow, selected to pursue research for
auto-ethnographic study, “Making Home: A Tale of Two Cities.” (201314)
2.
Recipient of The 2008 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for
outstanding film and media studies scholarship from the Society of
Cinema and Media Studies for Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona
in Post Soul America (Rutgers UP, 2007)
3.
Rackham Summer Research Fellowship. Was awarded $7000 in salary
support to complete the manuscript for Laughing Mad: The Black Comic
Persona is Post Soul America. (6/05)
4.
Institute for Research on Women and Gender's Project On Media, Gender
and Social Change, With Catherine Squires (Communication
Studies/CAAS), $3500 grant to conduct a study on “Mirror Sitcoms” and
televisual spectatorship utilizing focus groups comprised of a diverse
selection of women (U of M students). (3/02)
5.
The Jack Sauter Award for Television Criticism awarded by UCLA
School of Theater, Film and Television (6/96)
6.
Recipient Of The Hugh Downs Graduate Research Fellowship For The
Study Of Television And Broadcasting. (6/97)
7.
Awarded The 1988 Lincoln-Sudbury Faculty Recognition Award.
INVITED LECTURES
1.
“What Alternatives Does Social Media Offer?” Invited panelist at
“Transforming Hollywood 7: Diversifying Entertainment” at University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, California (10/16)
2.
“Black Lives Matter: The Dream Deferred and Black Comedy in the Age
of Obama,” Invited Speaker at "Television, Race, and Re-Visioning the
American Dream" Symposium, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
in America at Brown University (12/15)
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3.
“Reading Chappelle,” Invited Speaker at Center for Interdisciplinary
Inquiry, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University (10/15)
4.
“Deconstructing Whoopi: Race, Gender and Persona Politics,” Invited
Speaker at Washington University in St. Louis, sponsored by the Program
in Film & Media Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African
and African-American Studies and The Center for Humanities (10/13)
5.
“The Media, Stereotypes and the Nature of Change,” Invited Speaker at
Equality Maricopa Dialogue Day at Rio Salado College, Tempe, AZ
(9/12)
6.
“Girls vs. Girls” Invited Speaker for the opening plenary for Console-ing
Passions, “Feminist Media Studies: Past, Present and Future” at Suffolk
University. Boston, MA (7/12)
7.
“Why We Need Scripted Comedy” Invited Panelist at the “All in
the…Modern Family” conference at the Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB,
Santa Barbara, CA (9/12)
http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/session-1-why-we-need-scriptedcomedies
8.
“Whose Dream is It Anyway: Televisual Fictions & the New Millennial
American Dream,” Invited Speaker for The Department of
Communication Studies’ Sixth Annual Jack Gravlee Lecture at Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO. (3/11)
9.
“Why We Laugh,” Invited Speaker for Department of Communication
Studies speaker series to discuss Robert Townsend’s documentary on
Black comedy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (4/10)
10.
“"Finding the Funny: In Search of Black Comics' Performances from
1960-2008,” Invited Speaker for Screen Archives Symposium at
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. (3/09)
11.
“Black Comedy and Comic Social Discourse,” Invited Speaker for
Global Media-Diasporic Cultures Series at University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. (2/08)
12.
“In The Wake of The Nigger Pixie: Dave Chappelle & The Politics of
Cross Over Comedy.” Invited Speaker for the Unit for Cinema Studies
lecture series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3/07)
13.
“African-American Identity and the ‘Post Soul’ Stand-up Comedian,”
Invited Speaker at an event co-sponsored by Media Studies and the
Office of Multicultural Affairs at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo,
Michigan. (3/06)
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14.
"Television, the American Dream, and Racial Identity Formation"
presented at College Colloquium at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI.
(1/06)
15.
“Dancing Like There’s Nobody Watching: Chappelle’s Show, De Facto
Crossover & the Post Network Era” presented “2004 Television History
Symposium” at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. (11/04)
16.
“Miscegenation in Manhattan: Interracial Romance in Post (?) Racial
America” presented at “Windows and Mirrors: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on American Popular Culture at Home and Abroad” at
University of Toronto, Canada. (5/04)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International
1.
“Losing Cosby,” presented at American Studies Association (ASA)
Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (2015).
2.
“This Year’s Model? Julia, Scandal and Constructing Televisual African
American Exemplarism and Respectability” at Society for Cinema and
Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada (2015)
3.
“Black Irish Like Me: On Becoming and Being A Celtic Soul Sister”
presented at “African Americans and Ireland” conference at Clinton
Institute for American Studies University College, Dublin, Ireland (2012)
4.
“Dancing Like Nobody’s Watching: Chappelle’s Show, De Facto
Crossover and the Post Network Era” presented at SCMS Annual
Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2006)
5.
“There’s No Place Like Home: Reflections On National Identity, The
Electronic Hearth and The American Dream” presented at Console-ing
Passions in Montreal, Canada. (1997)
National
1.
“Shady is the New Black” presented at Console-ing Passions Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana (2016)
2.
“Black Laughter Matters: How Black Comedy Speaks to the State of
Black America” presented at SCMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
(2016)
3.
“Kevin Hart: How to Be A Grown Ass Crossover King” at ASA Annual
Conference, Los Angeles, California (2014)
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4.
“Teaching Race & Media in "Post-Racial"/Post-Trayvon America,” CoOrganizer and Roundtable Panelist” Special Conference Event for Society
of Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, Washington (2014)
5.
“Awkward Black Comedy 2.0” Invited Panelist for Scholar/Practitioner
roundtable on Black Comedy in the Digital Age at ASA Annual
Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (2012)
6.
“Should Studying the Politics of Representation Be History?” Invited
Speaker for workshop discussing the myths of the post-racial present
at SCMS Annual conference, Boston, MA (2012)
7.
“Let Me Tell You A Story: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy & the Legacy
of Teshome Gabriel” at the SCMS Annual Conference, New Orleans,
LA (2011)
8.
“More Than A Woman: Gendered Expectations in Popular Media”
presented at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on
Television, Audio, Video and New Media, Eugene, Oregon (2010)
9.
“Moral Ambiguity & Quality Television or Why I Love & Hate Gaius
Baltar,” presented at the SCMS Annual conference (2008),
Philadelphia, PA (2008)
10.
“In The Wake of the Nigger Pixie” presented at the SCMS Annual
conference in Chicago, IL (2007)
11.
“What A Girl Wants: Reading Pleasures and Internalizing Ideologies
in Sex in the City and Girlfriends,” (with Catherine Squires).
presented at Consoling Passions (Feminist Television Conference) in
Milwaukee, WI (2005)
12.
"Miscegenation in Manhattan: Interracial Romances in Sex and the City
and Friends" presented at SCMS Annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(2004)
13.
“New Millennium Minstrelsy: Let’s Hear It For The Girls” presented at
Society For Cinema Studies (SCS) Conference, Denver, Colorado. (2002)
14.
"Lay Theory & Literacy: Learning from What We Already Know"
presented at SCS Annual conference, Washington, D.C. (2001)
15.
“Transforming The Mythos: Homefront Viewers Rethink The American
Dream” presented at Console-ing Passions, Notre Dame, South Bend,
Indiana. (2000)
16.
“Why ‘Andy’ And ‘Beulah’ Still Play: Minstrelsy in The New
Millennium” presented at SCS Annual conference in West Palm Beach,
Florida. (1999)
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17.
“Talking ‘Bout The Dream: A View from The Homefront of Black
Televisual Spectatorship” presented at SCS Conference, San Diego,
California. (1998)
18.
“Banter, Banter, Banter, Kiss: Evolution & Intransigence in Romantic
Comedy” presented at SCS conference, Dallas, Texas. (1996)
INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES IN POPULAR PRESS
1.
“She Stood with Mizzou: A Conversation with Dr. Melissa Click”
Ms. Magazine Blog. (online) 22 September 2016
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2016/09/22/stood-mizzou-conversation-drmelissa-click/
2.
“Is Good and Evil Black and White?” Room for Debate: A Running
Commentary on the News, New York Times (online) 29 September 2013.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/09/29/walter-whites-souland-yours/is-good-and-evil-black-and-white-2
3.
Interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg for her documentary on Whoopi
Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (HBO 2013)
4.
“Laughs Are Still Seen as Lowbrow,” Room for Debate: A Running
Commentary on the News, New York Times (online) 24 February 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/02/23/why-dont-morecomedies-win-oscars/for-the-oscars-laughs-are-lowbrow
5.
"Humor in Hard Times," Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on
the News, New York Times (online) 9 September 2009.
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/humor-in-hard-times/
6.
Guest on New Hampshire Public Radio program, Word of Mouth.
Interviewed by Virginia Prescott on Haggins’ 2008 article on the increased
presence and prominence of women in television comedy.
7.
“Comic Relief,” written for Ms. Magazine, Winter 2008, 52-55
8.
Interviewed in Media Education Foundation documentary, Class
Dismissed: How TV Frames The Working Class (Pepi Leistyna, 2005)
along with prominent scholars in media studies including Susan Douglas,
Herman Gray, and Andrea Press.
9.
Guest on Chicago Public Radio program, Odyssey. Interviewed by
Gretchen Helfrich on the state of African American film comedy. (4/03)
COURSES TAUGHT AT ASU
1.
FMS 598: Comedy as Social Discourse
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(Created online graduate level version as FMS 598 for Fall 2012)
FMS 494: Comedy as Social Discourse
(Created online version as FMS 499 for Summer 2011)
FMS 300: Television & Cultural Studies
(Created online version of FMS 300 Summer 2009)
FMS 520: The Cultural History of US Television: Theory and Method
(Created online graduate level version of FMS 520 Summer 2010)
SERVICE AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
English/Film & Media Studies
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Vice President of Programming, Faculty Women of Color Caucus
Member, Department of English Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Member, New Media Search Committee, FMS
Member, English Non-Tenure Track Committee (Fall)
Co-Chair, FMS MAS Graduate Admissions
Chair, FMS Curriculum Committee
Founding Member, Faculty Women of Color Caucus
Speaker, Ethnic Studies Week Workshop on Being Faculty of Color
Member, Committee to Revise the DEN
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Member, Assistant Professor, Search Committees (Fall 2013)
Member, Assistant Professor, Search Committees (Summer 2012 & Fall
2012)
Member, Project Humanities Steering Committee (CLAS)
Coordinator, “Place of the Dream” symposium, FMS sponsored event,
part of the launch week for Project Humanities (CLAS and FMS)
Member, New Media Search Committee, FMS
Co-chair, Promotions and Tenure Committee, FMS
Student Advisement-Honors (ASU)
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Chair, Honors Thesis Project for Daniel Miller, FPR
[Awarded Fall 2015]
Secondary Chair, Honors Thesis Project for Mary Kupsch,
English/Anthropology [Awarded Spring 2015]
Student Advisement-Graduate (ASU and UM)
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Chair, Dissertation Committee for Michelle Martinez, English
ASU [Degree Conferred Spring 2015]
Integrated (Individual Capstone) Projects for MAS in American Media
and Popular Culture, ASU: Nicole Whittaker, Laura Messer, Kirk Weber,
Scott Warfel, Scott Cooper, Stephanie Katz, Crystal Bozigian (2011-2015)
Member, Dissertation Committee for Megan Biddinger, Communication
Studies, University of Michigan [Degree Conferred: Spring 2012]
Member, Dissertation Committee for Jennifer Fogel, Communication
Studies, University of Michigan [Degree Conferred: Spring 2012]
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Member, Dissertation Committee for Sarah Benjamin Crymble,
Communication Studies [Degree Conferred August 2009]
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Member, Board of Directors, Console-ing Passions: International
Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism
(2013-)
Editorial Board, Velvet Light Trap, University of Texas, Austin and
University of Wisconsin, Madison (2014- )
Member, Nominating Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
(SCMS) (2013- )
Member, Board of Directors, SCMS (2010-2013)
Member, Program Committee, SCMS (2010-2013)
Caucus Liaison, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) (20102013)
Editorial Board, Feminist Media Studies book series, Carol Stabile, ed.,
University of Illinois Press (2012-)
Editorial Board, Studies in American Humor (2012- )
Manuscript Reviewer, Rutgers UP (2013- )
Manuscript Reviewer, New York University Press (2012-)
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Texas Press (2010-)
Manuscript Reviewer, Television and New Media (2013-)
Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press (2010-)
Co-chair, African/African American Caucus, SCMS (2006-2008)
Co-chair, Caucus Coordinating Committee, SCMS (2006-08)
Editorial Board, Velvet Light Trap (2004-08)
Editorial Board, Emergences: Journal for The Study Of Media &
Composite Cultures (2000-04)
Member, Television Studies Caucus, SCMS (2000-)
Member, African/African American Caucus, SCMS (1996-)
Member, SCMS (1996-)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1.
Screenwriter, hired by CodeBlack Entertainment (A Lionsgate Company)
to write the script for Why We Laugh: Funny Women (Showtime, 2013).
Other works include two feature length scripts: Flag Day, an AfricanAmerican family drama, and Spirit Child Blues, an supernatural romantic
comedy.
2.
Acted as Historical Consultant and onscreen talent for Whoopi Goldberg
Presents Moms Mabley (HBO 2013)
3.
Developed and Co-Taught Integrated Production & Studies courses at
University of Michigan with Production Faculty: “Self As Subject,” (with
Jennifer Hardacker) in which students examined the nature of
autobiography in non-Hollywood film and produced their own short film,
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and also had a service learning component; and “The Sitcom,” (with Terri
Sarris), which studied the history and significance of the genre, and
produced three pilots from the work of the students.
4.
Coordinated Media Literacy Programs as community outreach events
(scholars in the schools) for Society for Cinema and Media Studies
conferences: Washington D.C. (2001), Atlanta (2004) and Chicago (2007).
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