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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
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August 7, 2012 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 7 comments

Corey Creekmur remembers his friend, Alexander Doty.

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

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

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

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

May 19, 2011 Alexander Doty / Indiana University 12 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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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