Julie D'Acci, Department Chair

Julie D’Acci is a professor and chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department. She teaches the following classes:

• GWS 421: Gender and Media
• GWS 441: Contemporary Feminist Theory
• GWS 640: Senior Capstone Semina
• GWS 900: Feminist Methodologies.

Her areas of specialty are cultural theory, feminist theory, media theory and gender and media.

She is the author of Defining Women, University of North Carolina Press; the coeditor of Feminist Television Criticism, Oxford University Press; and the editor of Lifetime: Television for Women (special issue of Camera Obscura), University of Indiana Press. Among her articles are "Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities," in Television After TV, Duke University Press; "Television, Representation and Gender," in The TV Studies Reader, Routledge, London; "US Television Documentary and Abortion Discourses: Leading up to Roe vs Wade," in Feminist Television Criticism, Oxford University Press, London; and "Nobody's Woman?--Honey West and the New Sexuality on Mid-Sixties TV," in The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, Routledge, New York.

Julie D'Acci

1155 Observatory Drive

108 Ingraham Hall

Madison, WI 53706

608-263-2051

dacci@wisc.edu