Dr. Suzanne Scott

Biography

Suzanne Scott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests explore fan studies, media convergence, digital participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, comic book culture, and gender studies. Prior to her tenure at UT Austin, she taught Film Media Studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she also served as a Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College. Scott has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at prominent institutions including UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, and the University of Southern California. Her scholarly monograph, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019), examines gendered tensions in media industries' engagement with fans. Additionally, she co-edited the "Routledge Companion to Media Fandom" (2018), which includes contributions from 60 established scholars in the field. Scott's work has appeared in leading journals such as Transformative Works and Cultures, Cinema Journal, and New Media & Society, among others. In 2012, she was selected to represent a generation of fan scholars in an interview with Henry Jenkins for the 20th Anniversary edition of "Textual Poachers."

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