ANNOUNCING: The SCMS Television Studies SIG 2026 Graduate Essay Contest! Essays due January 2, 2026—more details below!
Submit essays to: Matt Boyd Smith (mbsmith@yhc.edu)
Sign up to review here: forms.gle/K4muyibPH8Y1...
Get in touch with any questions!
Happening in one hour! Get in touch if you didn't receive the zoom link!
UPCOMING EVENT: Join the SCMS TV SIG, Taylor Cole Miller, and Alfred L. Martin, Jr. for "A Chat About GOLDEN GIRLS: TALES FROM THE LANAI" on Thursday, November 6, at 3:30pm ET/12:30pm PT. Check your email or DM for the event link! #scmstv @scmstudies.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Université de Valenciennes conference on PEAKY BLINDERS. Proposals due October 12, 2025. See details below!
Please congratulate your new board (as of July 1st)! @kaytilausch.bsky.social will move up to Sr. Co-Chair. Matt Boyd Smith will move up to Jr. Co-Chair. @bkrugerr.bsky.social will be our incoming First Year Board Rep. And Olivia Stowell is our incoming Grad Student Rep. Go team! #scmstv
I'd also like to thank our outgoing Grad Student Rep, Cameron Brown @camlbrown.bsky.social, for his excellent service to the SIG over the past couple years! #scmstv +
Hello, TV SIG! Molly here! Today is my final day as a board member, so I'd like to say thank you to this great community of scholars. It's been wonderful serving on the board and seeing some of the amazing work our colleagues are doing (including our graduate students)! #scmstv +
Also, please congratulate our runners-up: "Thinking Outside Crisis Theories" by Akhil Goswami and "'In honor of Pride Month, Netflix brings you, Stereotype: The Series'" by Nathan Workman #SCMS #SCMSTV #GradStudent #EssayContest #tvstudies #mediastudies
Please join us in congratulating the winner and runners-up of the 2025 TV Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Contest! Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas's winning essay, “Formulaic Frontiers” will be published in an upcoming issue of the New Review of Film and Television Journal!
Thanks to all who voted in the election and/or participated in SIG events this year, and we look forward to more exciting television scholarship and discussion to come! #SCMSTV #TVSIG 📺
Your new TV SIG Board as of July 1st will be:
Senior Co-Chair: Kayti Lausch @kaytilausch.bsky.social
Junior Co-Chair: Matt Boyd Smith
First Year Board Rep: Ben Kruger-Robbins @bkrugerr.bsky.social
Grad Student Rep: @oliviastowell.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce the results of our TV SIG Board election! Our new First Year Board Rep will be Ben Kruger-Robbins. Our new Grad Student Rep will be Olivia Stowell. Congrats to both!
Let's also enthusiastically thank all of our candidates for their willingness to serve. 📺 #SCMSTV #TVSIG
A reminder that voting is underway for our TV SIG Board election! We're electing 2 positions this year: First Year Board Rep and Graduate Student Rep. (Check your email for further details and the link to the voting portal.) Voting will close on Friday, May 16th. #SCMSTV
Voting is now open for our TV SIG Board election!
We're electing 2 positions this year: First Year Board Rep and Graduate Student Rep.
Voting will close on Friday, May 16th. (Check your email for the link.)
REMINDER: Send us us those nominations! Due tomorrow.
(See your email from April 14th for details, or email or message Molly with any questions @moschneids.bsky.social )
A reminder that self-nominations are open for our upcoming TV SIG Board Election! We're electing a First Year Rep and a Grad Student Rep. Interested in running? Please send a 100-word bio and a 200ish-word nominating statement to Molly by Friday. (Check your email for details.) #SCMSTV
Also sponsored by the SIG is R19 "Doing Political History with TV: How and Why to Use TV Texts as Primary Source"! Chaired by Aniko Bodroghkozy and featuring presentations from the chair, Heather Hendershot, David Lipson, and A. Brad Schwartz #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
Q09 "Adaptation & Gamification: Asian Media and the Transnational Market": This panel is sponsored by the TV SIG and chaired by Charlotte Stevens with presentations from the chair, Lisa W. Jacobson, Shiyi Zhao, and Shan Mu Zhao #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
Happy Last Day of #SCMS, everyone! As you wrap up your time here, be sure to check out the following panels featuring members of the TV SIG! #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
Good morning, Chicago! If you’re in this beautiful city on this beautiful morning, come hear me talk about the battle between Ed Murrow and Joe McCarthy this afternoon at #SCMS25.
@scmstudies.bsky.social @scms-tv.bsky.social
AND WE’RE LIVE! Happening now, “O14-‘I (Still) Want My MTV!’: Tracing the Channel’s Past, Present, and Future” chaired by @amandaannklein.bsky.social with presentations from the chair, Ethan Thompson, Laurel Westrup, and @alyxvesey.bsky.social. #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
Also today, we got to see "G6, "Specters Onscreen: Network-Era TV Horror Formats and their Ghostly Contemporary Traces."" with presentations from @jotorresbarth.bsky.social, @andyowens85.bsky.social, and Alex Remington #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
Today saw panels like "F13 Policy and Power Regulating Global Media in the Digital Age" featuring presentations from Maureen Mauk, Swapnil Rai, Jennifer Porst, and Sylwia Szostak #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
As a SIG, our members are doing such great work that we have an excess of excellence preventing us from "officially" sponsoring all the panels submitted so we want shout out panels that we could not include in our "official" list of sponsored panels. #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
E17 "Badge and Screen: Deconstructing Police Narratives in Popular Television" chaired by Brian Faucette with presentations from the chair, Matt Smith, David Pierson, and Maria Suzanne Boyd #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
E11 "Useful Television: Expanding Understand of the Medium through Alternative Histories" chaired by Kit Hughes with presentations from the chair, Jennifer Blaylock, Hannah Spaulding, Annie Sullivan and Stace Takacs #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
E01 "Re-Imagining the K-Drama: Memory, Sexuality, and Desire" chaired by Steve Choe with presentations from the chair, Min Boo Lee, Jinhee Choi, and Ji-yoon An #scms #scms25 #scmstv #tvstudies
D17 "Uncomfortable Couples: Television and Interracial Sex" Chaired by Meenasarani Linde Murugan featuring presentations by Melissa Phruksachart, Leigh Goldstein, & Brandy Monk-Payton with Hunter Hargraves responding. #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
C11 "Women Showrunners in Contemporary Television: Authorship and Representation" chaired by Yael Levy and Stefania Marghitu with presentations from the chairs as well as Theresa Trimmel and Madison Barnes-Nelson #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
B17 "Shifting Sector Strategies Outside the US: Scripted Series in the UK, Australia, and Canada" chaired by Amanda D. Lotz and featuring presentations from Beth Johnson and Dr. Lotz #scms #scms2025 #scmstv #tvstudies
