Jennifer Fleeger, Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Dr. Fleeger received her Ph.D. from the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa in 2009. Her dissertation, ?Opera, Jazz, and Hollywood?s Conversion to Sound,? concentrates largely on sound shorts released between 1926 and1932 and analyzes competing film sound technologies with respect to the genres of music employed to catalogue cultural experience. Dr. Fleeger?s research shows that embedded within the cinematic presentation of opera and jazz are particularly American concerns over class, race, ethnicity, and gender. She has published articles in Music, Sound and the Moving Image and an anthology on media marketing and her piece on Al Jolson and the Vitaphone is scheduled to appear this fall in The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Research and teaching interests include: sound studies, classical Hollywood cinema, Scandinavian cinema, classical film theory, Marxist aesthetics, and the relationship between technology and popular culture.

Fall 2009 Courses: