Lisa Jacobson

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow

Member Of:
  • Writing and Communication Program
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
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Email Address: lisawj@gatech.edu

Overview

Pronunciation of Name:
LEE-suh JAY-cub-sin
Personal Pronouns:
she/her

Lisa Wells Jacobson is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Film & Media in 2022. Her scholarship asks how contemporary television writes history. Her recent work investigates how US period television serials like The Americans (FX, 2013-2018) dramatize discontent with today’s digitally connected world by imagining a slower, more human-scale past. She is also currently researching the rise of openly anachronistic historical films and television series in the “post-truth” era. Her writing has appeared in New Review of Film and Television Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, and Film Quarterly. She recently co-edited a double issue titled "Experiments in Ungrading in North American Classrooms" for the open-access Teaching Media Dossier of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Education:
  • PhD in Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley
  • MA in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
  • MA in Art and Literature, Leiden University, Netherlands
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Digital Media
  • Film & Media Studies
  • Historical Fiction
  • Seriality
  • Television Studies

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Communication
  • Digital Media
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Media Studies
Issues:
  • Cinema Studies
  • Digital Communication
  • Film History and Theory
  • Television Studies

Courses

  • ENGL-1101: English Composition I
  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II
  • LMC-3403: Tech Communication

Publications

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