Biography

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1993) is Professor of Communication whose work specializes in the history of film, radio and television and audiences. Fuller-Seeley is the author of four books that relate to various aspects of American film history: Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies in Small Town Moviegoing (California 2007, edited), Celebrate Richmond Theatre (Dietz 2001), At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture (Virginia 2001; Smithsonian 1997), and Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy (Cambridge 1996, with G. Jowett and I. Jarvie). She is completing work on book projects about nickelodeon-era history and early film exhibition in Cooperstown, New York, and researching a book on Jack Benny’s radio program in the Great Depression. Among her recently published book chapters are “Learning to Live with Television: Technology, Gender, and America’s Early TV Audiences,” in The Columbia History of Television (Columbia 2007)“Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitors and Female Audiences during the Great Depression,” in Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method (Duke 2008),  “Provincial Modernity? Film at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition” in Convergence Media History (Ruoutledge2008), and “Shirley Temple: Dreams Come True” in Glamour in a Golden Age:  Movie Stars of the 1930s (Rutgers forthcoming) Fuller-Seeley has been the recipient of fellowships from the NEH and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2000 she received a Young Alumnae award from Agnes Scott College. She served as Project Scholar for a TV documentary about Mary Pickford which aired on PBS in 2005. Research Areas: Film, radio and television history; audiences and media reception. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.A. (Film & Video). Core Graduate Seminars

Regularly Taught: Media Historiography; Media Reception; Communication Pedagogy; Film History.