Skip to content

Flow

A Critical Forum on Media and Culture

A Critical Forum on Media and Culture

  • Home
  • ABOUT FLOW
  • CONTRIBUTE
    • How to Contribute
    • CURRENT CALLS
  • CREDITS
    • AUTHORS
    • EDITORIAL TEAM
    • TECHNICAL CREDITS
    • FORMER EDITORS
  • OVER*FLOW

Author: Alexander Doty / Indiana University

Professor Doty was born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatello, Idaho.

If you get that reference, then you won’t be surprised to discover that he teachs and works in GLBTQ film and media studies. He was actually born in a military hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts the year the film he quotes above came out. His family, however, finally claimed west Texas as home, and, after decades of resistance, he has grown fond of the land of tumbleweeds, road runners, and horned toads.

He received his BA from the University of Texas-El Paso (or “Harvard on the Border” as it is known on bumper stickers), and his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana. Previous to coming to Indiana, He held positions at The American University in Cairo and at Lehigh University, which is in Bethlehem, just down the road from Nazareth and Egypt— Pennsylvania.

He has published MAKING THINGS PERFECTLY QUEER: INTERPRETING MASS CULTURE ( Minnesota) and FLAMING CLASSICS: QUEERING THE FILM CANON (Routledge), as well as co-edited OUT IN CULTURE: LESBIAN, GAY AND QUEER ESSAYS ON POPULAR CULTURE (Duke) and edited two special issues on CAMERA OBSCURA: “Fabulous! Divas I and II.” His current scholarship includes a co-written book (with IU’s own Patty Ingham) on the monstrous and the medieval, a project on contemporary film melodrama, and articles on Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, and “Queer Hitchcock.” He is thrilled to be at an institution that supported Kinsey’s work.

Remembering Alexander Doty
Corey Creekmur/University of Iowa

August 7, 2012 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 7 comments

Corey Creekmur remembers his friend, Alexander Doty.

Read more

Flow Remembers the Work of Alexander Doty:
I Love Shari: My Queerly Feminist Life with TV

August 7, 2012 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 2 comments

Read more

Flow Remembers the Work of Alexander Doty:
Modern Family, Glee, and the Limits of Television Liberalism

August 7, 2012 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 2 comments

Read more

Flow Remembers the Work of Alexander Doty:
Hot in Cleveland: Everything Old is New Again?

August 7, 2012 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 8 comments

Read more

Flow Favorites: Modern Family, Glee, and the Limits of Television Liberalism
Alexander Doty / Indiana University

May 19, 2011 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 13 comments

Jessalynn Keller’s Flow Favorite: Alexander Doty’s column on the 2010 Emmy broadcast reveals the tensions of a liberal politics of representation in the shows Glee and Modern Family.

Read more

Modern Family, Glee, and the Limits of Television Liberalism
Alexander Doty / Indiana University

September 24, 2010 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 15 comments

The 2010 Emmy broadcast reveals the tensions of a liberal politics of representation in the shows Glee and Modern Family.

Read more

Hot in Cleveland: Everything Old is New Again?
Alexander Doty / Indiana University

August 13, 2010 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 6 comments

Is the female-centered sitcom Hot in Cleveland empowering, or merely old-fashioned?

Read more

I Love Shari: My Queerly Feminist Life with TV
Alexander Doty / Indiana University

July 2, 2010 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 2 comments

A queer look back at the author’s kid and teen TV icons.

Read more
Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

Search Flow:

Archives

Over*Flow: Responses to Breaking TV & Media News

Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own
Lauren Rouse & Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida

Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

@FlowTV Conversations…

@FlowTVFollow

FLOW
FlowTVFLOW@FlowTV·
6 Mar

Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to http://flowjournal.org to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz, @kingisafink, @influencerlabor, and @westemilye!

Reply on Twitter 1632773532873531392Retweet on Twitter 163277353287353139211Like on Twitter 16327735328735313928Twitter 1632773532873531392
FlowTVFLOW@FlowTV·
22 Feb

New in Over*Flow: @rouselaurenc and @melstanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site http://archiveofourown.org, providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers. https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

Reply on Twitter 1628530472077623299Retweet on Twitter 162853047207762329925Like on Twitter 162853047207762329930Twitter 1628530472077623299
FlowTVFLOW@FlowTV·
14 Feb

Happy Flow-entines Day! We are proud to announce the release of special issue Volume 29.04, "The Struggle Is (for) Real: Cultivating Authenticity in the 'BeReal' age"! Thanks to guest editors @TomDivon and @disabledphd. Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

Reply on Twitter 1625607060451917824Retweet on Twitter 162560706045191782412Like on Twitter 162560706045191782434Twitter 1625607060451917824
Load More...

Popular Posts

  • The Devil in the Details: User Tracking Is Hurting More Than Our Privacy, It’s Doing Serious Damage to Public-Interest Media, Too.
    Josh Braun / UMass Amherst
    February 22, 2019 278 comments
  • Pass the Remote: Online News

    June 10, 2005 197 comments
  • Legal Fictions

    June 10, 2005 154 comments
  • Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?

    March 9, 2007 102 comments
  • Watching Everybody Hates Chris in Brazil
    Reighan Gillam / University of Michigan
    March 5, 2013 97 comments

Tags

Advertising American Politics Branding Comedy Commercial Interests Communication Technology COVID-19 Criticism Family Fandom Femininity Feminism Gender Globalization Global Media Global Politics Industry Media Influence Music Netflix New Media News Over*Flow Pedagogy Pop Culture Public Media Race/Ethnicity Radio Reality TV Representation social media streaming Technology Television UK Viewing Volume 23 Volume 24 Volume 25 volume 26 Volume 27 Volume 28 Volume 29 Whiteness Youth Culture