Communication Department Faculty

Lisa Cuklanz

Professor, Director of Women's and Gender Studies

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Lisa Cuklanz

Ph.D.

Contact

St. Mary's Hall S477

Telephone: 617-552-8894

Email: cuklanz@bc.edu

Research Interests

Media Representation

News Framing

Gender Violence in Media

Critical Methodologies

Department

Communication

Profile

Professor Cuklanz has been a member of the Communication Department at 艾可直播 College since 1991, teaching a range of courses including The Rhetorical Tradition, Rhetorical Theory, Public Speaking, Violence and Media, Gender Representation and Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Gender and Media, and Film and Popular Culture. Internationally, she has taught courses on film, popular culture, and communication criticism in Bordeaux, Rome, Venice, and Hong Kong.

Professor Cuklanz has served as a Fulbright scholar in Communication in Hong Kong, and as Harvard Law School Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Communication. Her research areas include media representations of violence, news framing, gender violence in media, and critical methodologies. She has published 6 books and several dozen articles and book chapters, and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Quarterly, Women's Studies in Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and SIGNS. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and academic awards including a Goldsmith Research Grant from the Kennedy School of Government, a CSPAN Research Grant, an Aristos Campus Mundos grant, The Everett Lee Hunt Book Award, and the Jane A. Weiss Memorial Dissertation Scholarship.聽

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Cuklanz, Lisa. (Ed.) Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • Moorti, Sujata, and Cuklanz, Lisa.聽All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in聽. London: IB Tauris, 2017.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and McIntosh, Heather (Eds.)聽Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements. New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2015.
  • Vaidya, Kishor., et. al. Communication for the Curious: Why Study Communication? The Curious Academis Publishing, 2015.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and Moorti, Sujata. (Eds.)聽Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa.聽Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Articles and Chapters:

  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Historical Contexts for Considering the Significance of Source Hostility." Journalism and Communication Monographs 24.3 (2022).
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and Erol, Ali. "New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries." International Journal of Communication, 15 (2021).
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and Rodriguez, Maria Pilar. New Perspectives in Feminist Methodological Research. Investigaciones Feministas 11.2 (2020).
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, ad McIntosh, Heather. "Researching Mass Media: Images and Texts," in The Practice of Qualitative Research: Engaging Students in the Research Process, Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Washington, DC: Sage Publications, (CHapter 9), 2017.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, ad McIntosh, Heather. "Researching Mass Media: Images and Texts," in The Practice of Qualitative Research: Engaging Students in the Research Process, Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Washington, DC: Sage Publications, (CHapter 9), 2017.
  • Rodriguez, Maria Pilar, and Cuklanz, Lisa. Gender Dimensions in Media and Communication Studies: Main Concepts and Illustrations in Mass Mediated Texts." Analisi: quaderns de comunicacio i cultura 50 (2014).
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Mass Media Representation of Gendered Violence," in聽The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender, Edited by Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin, and Cynthia Carter. New York: Routledge, pp. 32-41, (Chapter 2), 2013.聽
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and Moorti, Sujata. 鈥淭elevision鈥檚 New Feminism: Prime Time Representations of Women and Victimization.鈥� Reprinted in聽Gender, Race, and Class in Media聽Edited by Gail Dines and Jean Humez, Chapter 19. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2014.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa, and Moorti, Sujata. 鈥淭elevision鈥檚 New Feminism: Prime Time Representations of Women and Victimization.鈥澛�Critical Studies in Media Communication聽23.4 (October, 2006): 302-321.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. 鈥淕endered Violence ad Mass Media Representation,鈥� in聽The Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication, edited by Bonnie Dow and Julia T. Wood. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006, pp. 335-354.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "The Masculine Ideal: Prime Time Representations of Rape, 1976-1978."听Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15聽(December 1998): 423-448.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Mainstream News Frames the Hill/ Thomas Hearings."听Outsiders Looking In: A Communication Perspective on the Hill/Thomas Hearing, Paul Siegel (Ed.). Communication and Law Series. New York: Hampton Press, 1996, pp. 167-182.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Opposing Verdicts in the Webb-Dotson Rape Case: Legal Versus News Constructions."听Communication Studies 46聽(Spring 1995): 45-56.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Shrill Squawk or Strategic Innovation: A Rhetorical Reassessment of Margaret Sanger's聽Woman Rebel."听Communication Quarterly 43.1聽(Winter 1995): 1-19.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Public Expressions of 'Progress' in Discourses of the Big Dan's Rape."听Women and Language 27.1聽(Spring 1994): 1-11.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Truth in Transition: Discursive Constructions of Character in the Rideout Rape in Marriage Case."听Women's Studies in Communication 16.1聽(Spring 1993): 74-101.
  • Cuklanz, Lisa. "Male is to Female as _____ is to _____ : A Guided Tour of Five Feminist Frameworks for Communication Studies." with Kathryn Cirksena.聽Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication. Lana Rakow (Ed). New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992: 18-44.

Publications

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Feminism and Identity Politics in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sumatra Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz

London: IB Tauris, 2017

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Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real

Edited by Lisa Cuklanz

London: Routledge, 2023.

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Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements

Lisa Cuklanz and Heather McIntosh

New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.

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Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti

New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.

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