Elizabeth Gailey
Associate Professor
Elizabeth Gailey is a scholar and critic of mainstream media, as well as an independent film maker and social activist. Along with media activism and social change, her teaching and research interests focus on national and transnational media discourses about gender, racial, and sexual identities.
Her first documentary, Girl Fight (2008), draws attention to the growing problem of in-school violence against girls, and she is currently working on a documentary about talk-radio culture and activism that focuses on the work of Chattanooga talk-show host Jeff Styles.
She is the author of Writing to Death: News Framing of the Right-To-Die Conflict from Quinlan’s Coma to Kevorkian’s Conviction and most recently of “Self-Made Women: Cosmetic Surgery Shows and the Construction of Female Psychopathology,” published in Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled.
