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Alyxandra Vesey
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3506 Dawes Street
Madison, WI 53714
512-497-3992
vesey@wisc.edu
AREAS OF STUDY
Media studies (film, television, radio, Internet); media industries and production studies; feminist
media criticism; queer theory; critical race theory; popular music studies; cultural studies; sound
studies; Internet/digital and new media studies.
EDUCATION_________________________________________________
PhD, Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Anticipated Completion Date: May 2016)
Dissertation: “Resonant Frequencies: Musical Labor and Identity in Post-Network Television”
Advisor: Dr. Derek Johnson
-Distributed Minor: Film and Gender and Women’s Studies
MA, Department of Radio-Television-Film (Media Studies)
University of Texas at Austin (May 2008)
-Certificate: Women and Gender Studies
BJ, College of Communication (Journalism)
BA, Liberal Arts (History)
University of Texas at Austin (May 2005)
-Certificate: Senior Fellows Program
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“‘A Way to Sell Your Records’: The Politics of Pop Stardom on RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Television and New Media [revise and resubmit].
(2016) “Mixing in Feminism.” Popular Music and Society 39 (4): 1-20.
(2015) “Putting Her on the Shelf: Pop Star Fragrances and Post-feminist Entrepreneurialism.”
Feminist Media Studies 15 (6): 992-1108.
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Journal Articles in Special Issues
(2015) “Working for @LateNightJimmy.” Spectator: Performing Labor in the Media Industries
35 (2): 47-56.
(2014) “Waste not: Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse and the heterogeneous documentary film score.”
Studies in French Cinema 14 (3): 167-179.
(2013) “Reading Between the Lines of Gender and Viral Marketing.” In Focus: Gender and
Labor. Cinema Journal 53 (1): 144-149.
Anthology Chapters
(2013) “Live Music: Mediating Musical Performance on Saturday Night Live.” In Beyond
Saturday Night: Saturday Night Live and American Television Culture. Eds. Nick Marx, Matt
Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker. Bloomington, IN: IU Press. 112-129.
Works in Progress
“Playing in the Closet: Female Musicians, Capsule Collections, and the Ambivalence of
Citational Feminism.” In Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Postfeminist Media Culture.
Eds. Jessalynn Marie Keller and Maureen Ryan. [forthcoming anthology collection]
Prefaces and Introductions
(2014) “On Sound,” coordinating editor for a special issue on sound studies for The Velvet Light
Trap; co-edited with Andrew J. Bottomley, Eric Dienstfrey, and Booth Wilson, Vol. 74.
Selected Online Academic Publications
“Kim Gordon’s Self-Fashioning.” Antenna. March 9, 2015.
“Doing It Ourselves.” In Media Res. November 21, 2013.
“An Absolut Drag.” Antenna. December 31, 2012.
“Born in Flames, Reborn on Tour.” In Media Res. September 7, 2012.
“Pitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster Appeal.” Flow. 9 (9). March 20, 2009.
“‘I Can Have It All!’: Liz Lemon Negotiates Power, One Sandwich At a Time.” Co-authored
with k. lambert. Flow. 8 (4). July 25, 2008.
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Reviews
(2014) Book Review. Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United
States by Madhavi Mallapragada, Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2014. In Critical
Studies of Media and Communication’s podcast series.
(2013) DVD Review. Harold and Maude, distributed by the Criterion Collection, 2012. In The
Moving Image 13 (1): 243-244.
Selected Popular Publications
“She’s Got the Beat.” Bitch Magazine. Issue 53. Winter 2011.
Selected Conference Presentations and Workshops
“‘Elevate the Music’: Struggles for Awards Recognition and Cross-Industrial Legitimation in the
Guild of Music Supervisors.” SCMS Conference 2016. Atlanta. March 30-April 3, 2016.
“Mixing in Feminism: Playlists, Networks, and Counterpublics.” SCMS Conference 2015.
Montreal, Canada. March 25-29, 2015.
“Participatory Pedagogy.” Workshop Facilitator, SCMS Conference 2015. Montreal, Canada.
March 25-29, 2015.
“Taking Award Shows Seriously.” Flow Conference 2014. Austin, Texas. September 11-13,
2014.
“Giving License on RuPaul’s Drag Race.” ICA Conference 2014. Seattle, Washington. May 2226, 2014.
“Capturing Her Essence: Pop Star Fragrances as Postfeminist Paratextual Labor.” Console-ing
Passions 2014. Columbus, Missouri. April 10-12, 2014.
“Doing It Ourselves: Reading Between the Lines of Gender and Viral Marketing.” SCMS
Conference 2013. Chicago, Illinois. March 6-10, 2013.
“‘Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?’: Zooey Deschanel and Online Discourses of Feminist and
Womanist Anti-Fandom.” Console-ing Passions 2012. Boston, Massachusetts. July 19-22, 2012.
“Women’s Work: Gendering the Music Supervisor.” SCMS Conference 2012. Boston,
Massachusetts. March 21-25, 2012.
“Postfeminist Critical Pathways and New Media” Roundtable. Flow Conference 2010. Austin,
Texas. September 30-October 2, 2010.
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“‘That Boy Ain’t Right’: Boy Protagonists, Female Voice Actors, and the Queer Potential of
Prime Time Animation.” Console-ing Passions 2010. Eugene, Oregon. April 22-24, 2010.
“Bitches Get Things Done.” Moderator, Flow Conference. Austin, Texas. October 9-11, 2008.
Invited Lectures and Addresses
“Mixing in Feminism,” guest lecture in CA 200: Introduction to Digital Communication,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2015.
“Professionalization Workshop: Academic Publishing” with Derek Johnson, Eric Hoyt, and Lori
Kido Lopez, UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies Colloquium. November 2015.
“Articulating Intersectionality,” guest lecture in CA 250: Survey of Radio, Television, and Film
as Mass Media, University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 2015, October 2013.
“Putting Her on the Shelf: Pop Star Fragrances and Post-feminist Entrepreneurialism,” UWMadison Media and Cultural Studies Colloquium. January 2015.
“The Work of Representation,” guest lecture in CA 250: Survey of Radio, Television, and Film
as Mass Media, University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2014.
“Giving License on RuPaul’s Drag Race,” UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies
Colloquium. October 2013.
“Academic Blogging Workshop” with David Bordwell, Jonathan Gray, Myles McNutt, and JJ
Murphy; UW-Madison Joint Colloquium, Media and Cultural Studies and Film. March 2013.
“Doing It Ourselves: Gender, Digital Communication, and Creative Labor, in Best Friends
Forever,” UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies Colloquium. February 2013.
“(Some) Women Are Funny,” guest lecture with Sarah Murray in CA 540: Television Comedy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. December 2012.
“Media Work,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Media and Cultural Studies Colloquium.
Madison, Wisconsin. February 2012.
“Bending the Pitch: Music Licensing and Convergence,” guest lecture in CA 351: Introduction to
Television, University of Wisconsin-Madison. February 2013, October 2012.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND DISTINCTIONS ____________________ _
Chancellor’s Fellowship
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016)
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Honored Instructors Award
University Housing, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Spring 2015, Fall 2014)
Elliott Dissertation Scholarship
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Spring 2014)
Helen K. Herman Award
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2013)
First Year McCarthy Scholarship Award
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2011)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE_______________________________________ ___
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CA 557: Contemporary Media Industries (Spring 2014)
-Evaluation Scores: 5.43/7
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CA 200: Introduction to Digital Communication (Fall 2015)
-Evaluation Scores: 6.42/7
CA 250: Survey of Radio, TV, and Film as Mass Media (Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013)
-Evaluation Scores: 6.44/7, 6.45/7, 5.72/7
CA 351: Introduction to Television (Spring 2013, Fall 2012)
-Evaluation Scores: 6.25/7, 6.06/7
CA 100: Introduction to Public Speaking (Spring 2012, Fall 2011)
-Evaluation Scores: 6.25/7, 6.52/7
RTF 365: Media and Social Change (Fall 2007)
-Evaluation Scores: N/A
Grader, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CA 347: Race, Ethnicity, and Media (Fall 2012)
CA 451: Television Criticism (Summer 2012)
SERVICE
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Academic Service Experience
Women’s Caucus (SCMS) – Graduate Student Representative (2014-2016)
-Social Media Administrator
-Event Organizer, “Slow Scholarship” (Atlanta, GA 2016)
-Event Organizer, “Participatory Pedagogy” (Montreal, QC, CAN 2015)
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The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television (2008, 2011-Present)
-Coordinating Editor (Vol. 74, “On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies”)
-Editor (Vols. 63, 70, 72, 74, 76)
Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture – Managing Editor and Contributor (2011-present)
Flow Conference 2008 – Organizing Committee (May-October 2008)
Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture – Column Editor (Summer 2008)
Research Projects
Social Media Usage Project – Research Assistant to Craig Watkins (Spring 2007)
Related Professional Experience and Activities
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch Playlist Series – Curator,
“Apparition” mix (Fall 2014)
WSUM 91.7 FM, University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Radio – DJ (2013-2015)
UW-Madison Cinémathèque (Short-form documentary film; Color, 5m) – Directed with Matt
Connolly and Tony Tran (Fall 2012)
Get Off the Internet (SXSW Day Show) – Collective Member and Booking Agent (May 2011April 2012)
Cinemakids – Co-Instructor, Screening Committee Member (July-September 2009)
Girls Rock Camp – Band Manager and Curriculum Coordinator
-Madison chapter (August 2011-present)
-Austin chapter (June 2008-June 2011)
Feminist Music Geek – Founder (April 2009-present)
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum – Digitization Specialist (July 2008-July 2011)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
(2011-Present) Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
-Women’s Caucus
(2013-Present) International Communication Association
-Popular Communication Division
-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies Scholarly Interest Group