Elizabeth Nathanson

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., Haverford College
M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University


Contemporary Film, Media, and Cultural Studies

Dr. Nathanson is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how contemporary American popular culture represents women's everyday life, specifically life at home, in the postfeminist context. She explores how the media as technologies and as cultural forms organize women's time and depict women's experiences of the time-crunch and life cycle in the contemporary context. Her work includes studies of lifestyle television, cooking programs, arts and crafts television shows, depictions of pregnancy and childbirth in popular film, and the impact of new technologies like TiVo and the Internet on cultural constructions of "women's time." Her article on domestic temporal efficiency and the Food Network show 30 Minute Meals will be published by Television and New Media this summer. Her work has also appeared in Framework. Before entering graduate school, she worked for the Education Department at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. She is teaching Popular Culture and Communication, 20th Century Media, and a special topics course called "Media and the Home.".