Jonathan Gray / University of Wisconsin - Madison

Jonathan Gray is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests center around the complex relationships between text, audience, and intertext, particularly with regards to television and film entertainment. He is author of Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (NYU Press, 2010), Television Entertainment (Routledge, 2008), and Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality (Routledge, 2006), and co-editor of three collections, the most recent being Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (NYU Press, 2009). He blogs at http://www.extratextual.tv