Hollis Griffin / Denison University

Hollis Griffin is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Denison University. He has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Colby College, having earned a doctorate in media & cultural theory at Northwestern, where he won the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Dissertation Prize. Hollis holds a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction from Cornell. His research and teaching interests include media historiography, narrative analysis, queer & critical theory, and issues related to emotion, citizenship, and consumer culture. He is currently at work on a book manuscript about queer media, digital technology, and affect called Affective Convergences: Manufactured Feelings in Queer Media Cultures. Hollis has published research in Cinema Journal, Popular Communication, Television & New Media, Velvet Light Trap, Spectator, JumpCut, In Media Res, and the anthology Film and Sexual Politics. From 2007-2009, Hollis held the graduate student seat on the Board of Directors for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies. Prior to beginning his graduate work, Hollis worked in the publishing industry, working for Grove Press, Routledge, Penguin Putnam, W.W. Norton & Company, and Continuum, Inc.