Alexander Russo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and English

Dr. Russo received his BA in History and American Studies from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D in American Civilization from Brown University. His dissertation “Roots of Radio’s Rebirth: Audiences, Aesthetics, Economics, and Technologies of American Broadcasting, 1926-1951” examines the origins of the musically oriented, market defined formats of much of the last fifty years of radio programming. Dr. Russo’s publications include a contribution on race and the public sphere in 1930s radio serial The Green Hornet in The Radio Reader and a forthcoming article on sound-on-disc transcriptions and rhetoric of radio liveness in The Velvet Light Trap.

His research interests include Media History, Critical and Cultural Theory, Advertising and Consumer Culture, and the Social History of Technology.

Fall 2008 Courses:

MDIA 353 - Television and American Culture
MDIA 499 - Senior Seminar: Topics in Media Studies