Author: Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan

Amanda D. Lotz is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Communication Theory, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Television & New Media, Screen, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Women and Language. Her first book, Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era explores the rise of female-centered dramas and cable networks targeted toward women in the late 1990s as they relate to changes in the U.S. television industry. She is currently working on a book that explores the effects of the institutional redefinition of the U.S. television industry since the 1980s on the medium's role as a cultural institution.