Florence Moore 310B
Dr. Emily Saidel studies the intersection of popular culture and politics through a feminist lens. She has previously held lecturer positions at the University of Michigan and Boston University. Her work examines narratives about the federal government in fictional American television, as well as issues of representation within televisual paratexts and video games. Before her doctoral education, she worked in performing arts administration and arts in higher education.
• Cote, A. and Saidel, E. (2024). ‘Race’ and race: Longitudinal trends in D&D Character Creation. In P. Sidhu, M. Carter, and J. Zagal (Eds.), Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, MIT Press.
• Saidel, E. (2020). Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feminist Media on Television’s Textual Edges. Cinephile, 14(1), 6-13.
• Saidel, E. (2012). The Fictional Shakespeare. In K Marshall and G. Malcolm (Eds.), Locating Shakespeare in the 21st Century, (pp. 108-121). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Selected Conference Presentations
• Saidel, E. (2022, June 23-25). The Undermined Legitimacy of Female American Presidents on Primetime Television. Paper presented at Console-ing Passions, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
• Saidel, E (2021, March 17-21). From Lists to Grids to Nothing at All: Time, TV, and Newspaper Broadcast Schedules. Paper presented at Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Virtual.
• Saidel, E. (2021, January 5-6). “Time Marches On…Or Does It?”: Nostalgia as Threat in Contemporary Fantasy Television. Paper presented at Genre/Nostalgia: An Online Film and Television Studies Symposium, Virtual.
