Brooke Bennett

she/her

Communication Studies

NA Ford Hall

224 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Master of Arts: Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California, 2018
Bachelor of Arts: English, Gender Studies, University of Arkansas, 2016
Associate of Applied Science: Game Development, Animation, and Motion Graphics, Austin Community College, 2022

Publications

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Bennett, Brooke. 2020. "'Posts' in the Zombie Apocalypse: Post-Feminism and Postracial Discourses in The Walking Dead and Z Nation." Feminist Media Studies 20 (3): 311-324.
Bennett, Brooke. 2019. "Tough Women of the Apocalypse: Gender Performativity in AMC’s The Walking Dead" Horror Studies 10 (1): 87-104.
Bennett, Brooke. 2019. "The Undying Ideologies of Race and Gender: The Zombie Apocalypse in Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Season One." Feminist Media Studies 19 (5): 637-650.
Bennett, Brooke. 2015. "Visual Pleasure and ‘A Work of Art.'" Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 46 (3): 197-200.
Bennett, Brooke. 2018. "‘Things are Different Now. There’s No N*ggers Anymore…. There’s Us and the Dead.’: AMC’s The Walking Dead in Post-Racial, Colorblind America." In The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and Comics, edited by Dawn Keetley and Elizabeth Erwin, 43-53. Jefferson: McFarland.

Awards

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Runner-up for William E. Brigman Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Popular Culture Presented at the National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2017
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2017
Cossette Endowed Fund for Intern Support, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2017
Honors College Research Grant, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Honors College, University of Arkansas, 2016
Honors College Travel Grant, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Honors College, University of Arkansas, 2015
Honors College Study Abroad Airfare Grant, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Honors College, University of Arkansas, 2015
Sturgis Study Abroad Grant, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Honors College, University of Arkansas, 2015