School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Kevin GlynnKevin Glynn

Qualifications

PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies Program)
MA (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Political Science)

Room

505, History building

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6276
kevin.glynn@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Profile

Associate Professor Kevin Glynn received his professional training and PhD in the field of media and communication studies from the Media & Cultural Studies Program in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied media theory, criticism, history and audiences under John Fiske and Lynn Spigel. His research concentration is in media studies and television studies and includes cultural studies and aspects of popular communication and culture more broadly. His work has appeared in leading international journals such as Television & New Media; Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Communication Studies; Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; International Journal of Cultural Studies; Comparative American Studies: An International Journal; Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and others. He is author of Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television, which was published in Duke University Press's "Console-ing Passions" series; this series was described by University of Melbourne Professor Sean Cubitt as "compulsory reading for the cultural analysis of television and television history" (International Journal of Cultural Studies, June 2007). Dr Glynn's work on popular journalism has been widely cited in media studies, journalism studies and cultural studies. His recent publications have examined indigenous peoples' media, digital media and convergence culture, popular and political cultures of the Americas, and media and postcolonialism. His ongoing research projects involve Indigenous media practices; media convergence; and intersections between popular culture, citizenship, politics and the media.  

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses

Areas of Research and Supervision

  • Media Studies
  • Television Studies
  • Audience and Fan Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Popular Culture
  • Culture and Politics
  • Indigenous Media
  • Media Geography
  • Contemporary Media and Cultural Theories
  • New Media and Media Convergence

Research Projects

Geographies of Media Convergence

School Administration

  • American Studies Undergraduate Programme Coordinator
  • Cultural Studies Programme Coordinator

Selected Publications

Authored and Edited Volumes

New Zealand Geographer 65 Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn (eds.), New Zealand Geographer 65 (no. 2, April 2009), Special Issue: “Counter-cartographies: New (Zealand) Cultural Studies/Geographies and the City.”
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18 Kevin Glynn & Howard McNaughton (eds.), Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18 (no. 4, Dec. 2004), Special Issue: “Culture Incorporated.”
Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television

Kevin Glynn, Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, 324 pp.

Articles & Chapters

Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn, “Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers (in press).

Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples, "Indigenous MediaSpace and the Production of (Trans)locality on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast," Television & New Media 12 (no.2, March 2011), pp. 101-35.

Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray and Pamela Wilson, "Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular," in John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture, 2nd edition (pp. xxxix-lvii). London: Routledge, 2011.

Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn, “Editorial: Countercartographies: New (Zealand) Cultural Studies/Geographies and the City,” New Zealand Geographer 65 (no. 1, April 2009), pp. 1-5.

Kevin Glynn, “Contested Land and Mediascapes: The Visuality of the Postcolonial City,” New Zealand Geographer 65 (no. 1, April 2009), pp. 6-22. Winner of the US-based Urban Communication Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award for “an outstanding book and/or journal article that exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication.”

Kevin Glynn, “The 2004 Election Did Not Take Place: Bush, Spectacle and the Media Nonevent,” Television & New Media 10 (no. 2, March 2009), pp. 216-45.

Kevin Glynn, “And Postmodern Justice for All: The Tabloidization of O.J. Simpson,” in Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn (eds.), The Tabloid Culture Reader (pp. 176-90). Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2008.

Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn and Irving Larios, “Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (no. 4, Dec. 2007), pp. 786-801.

Kevin Glynn and A.F. Tyson, “Indigeneity, Media and Cultural Globalization: The Case of Mataku, or the Maori X-Files,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (no. 2, June 2007), pp. 205-24.

Kevin Glynn & Howard McNaughton, “Introduction—Culture Incorporated,” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18 (no. 4, Dec. 2004), pp. 477-481.

Kevin Glynn, “Tabloid Television in the United States,” in Horace Newcomb (ed.), Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd edition, vol. 4 (pp. 2249-2252). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004.

Kevin Glynn, “Challenging Disenchantment: The Discreet Charm of Occult TV,” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 1 (no. 4, Dec. 2003), pp. 421-447.

Kevin Glynn, “Tele-Visions of the Otherworldly: The Seductions of Media Culture,” in Victoria Grace, Heather Worth, and Laurence Simmons (eds.), Baudrillard West of the Dateline (pp. 207-227). Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press, 2003.

Kevin Glynn, “Bartmania: The Social Reception of an Unruly Image,” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 38 (May 1996), pp. 61-91.

John Fiske & Kevin Glynn, “Trials of the Postmodern,” Cultural Studies 9 (no. 3, Oct. 1995), pp. 505-521.

Kevin Glynn, “Reading Supermarket Tabloids as Menippean Satire,” Communication Studies 44 (no. 1, Spring 1993), pp. 19-37.

Kevin Glynn, “Tabloid Television’s Transgressive Aesthetic: A Current Affair and the ‘Shows that Taste Forgot’,” Wide Angle 12 (no. 2, April 1990), pp. 22-44.