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Stevie Tuszynski

Curriculum vitae

Education

• PhD in American Culture Studies Program - Critical Studies in Media track, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH, May 2006
  Dissertation: Breaking Down The Binary Of Online Versus Offline Social Interaction (Advisor: Radhika Gajjala)
• MS in Communications/Screenwriting, Boston University, Boston MA, 1997
• BA in History, St. John Fisher College, Rochester NY, 1995

Teaching experience

• Department of Communications, Bethany College
  Assistant Professor, 2008-present
  Faculty Advisor, The Tower, campus newspaper
  Courses were smaller workshop classes and production couses; developed new course in digital media; revised upper division courses to integrate more new media into the curriculum.
  Courses include Digital Media and Digital Culture, Gender Communication, International Communications, Principles of Broadcasting and New Media, Audio-Visual Performance and Production, Copyediting, Principles of Advertising; faculty advisor to campus media organizations.
• Department of Theatre and Film, University of Toledo
  Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006-2008
  Courses entailed both large lecture and smaller workshop styles; developed curriculum within department's established guidelines; coordinated with colleagues on course content.
  Courses: Introduction to Film (including Distance Learning sections); Critical Approaches to Cinema; Cinema History; Screenwriting I.
• Department of Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University
  Graduate Instructor, 2004-2006.
  Assisted with development of curriculum and taught large undergraduate survey course; delivered mass lectures; coordinated multiple discussion sections.
  Courses: Introduction to Film.
• Department of Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University
  Graduate Instructor / Teaching Assistant, 2003-2004.
  Developed curriculum and taught specialized upper-level course on writing for film and television; assisted in teaching undergraduate survey course in global media; developed writing handbook for undergraduate students.
  Courses: Scriptwriting, International Telecommunications Systems.

Visual media experience

• Writer/Producer/Director, IRL (In Real Life) Documentary Project, Bowling Green OH, 2007
  Wrote, filmed and edited a digital-video documentary about the life, death and afterlife of an online community. The film looks at the real world consequences that come from making friends online, and what happens to those relationships when they move from the Internet into "real life."

Publications

• Dissertation: Breaking Down The Binary Of Online Versus Offline Social Interaction. Revised version released online, summer 2009.
• "A Cold War Cautionary Tale: Heterosexuality and Ideology in William Wyler's Ben-Hur." Journal of Popular Film and Television. Fall 2006.
• "Way Smarter Than You Are: Sam Carter, Human Being." Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond. Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds. Forthcoming, 2006.
• Book Review, "RealSpace: The fate of physical presence in the digital age, on and off planet." New Media and Society, April 2004.
• "Performance, Specificity and CMC Research." Performance/text/technology. March 2004.

Conference presentations

• Old Friends, New Friends, Same Me?, International Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Milwaukee, WI. October 2009.
• A Postmodern Nativity Story:Biblical Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men, National Popular Culture Assocation Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2009.
• "Online and Offline Fan Communities" Roundtable. 2008 Flow Conference, Austin TX. October 2008.
• "From Bronzers to Bloggers: Patterns in development of online social groups." Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, BC. October 2007.
• "Pirate Class Race: Race and Class Identities in 'Veronica Mars'." Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA. April 2007.
• "Television's Future and the Role of TV Scholarship" Roundtable. 2006 Flow Conference, Austin TX. October 2006.
• "IRL (In Real Life)" premiere screening, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 6.0, Chicago, IL. October 2005.
• "Way Smarter Than You Are." Popular Culture Association, San Diego, CA. March 2005.
• "Fundamental and Familiar: The History in Schoolhouse Rock." Paper presentation, American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. November 2004.
• "For Life: Long-Term Emotional Consequences of Online Social Interaction." Paper presentation, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 5.0, Sussex, England, UK. September 2004.
• "You All Looked So Normal: Confronting Media Bias Outside Scholarship." Paper presentation, International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 2004.
• "Studying the Internet Via the Internet: Electronic Collaboration Panel," Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Toronto, ON, October 2003.

Professional Affiliations

• Association of Internet Researchers
  Reviewer, AoIR conferences, 2004-2009
• American Studies Association
• Popular Culture Association
• Institute for the Study of Culture and Technology at BGSU