Gender and Sexuality Studies

Biography

Andrea Press is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology and Chair of the Media Studies Department at the University of Virginia.  She was founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies and Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival and has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan, the London School of Economics, Hebrew University, London’s Stanhope Center for Communications Policy Research, and the University of Illinois, where she produced the Roger Ebert Festival of Overlooked Films, was awarded the Beckman award for research, and was appointed to the Center for Advanced Study.  Awards include an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, two National Science Foundation awards, and a Danforth Foundation Fellowship.  Press has authored or co-authored Women Watching Television, Speaking of Abortion, The New Media Environment, Media and Class, Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age, The New Feminist Television Studies, the Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism and the forthcoming Cinema and Feminism.  Press edits the Communication Review. She holds the status of Fellow in the International Communication Association and is Chair of its Feminist Scholarship Division.