Author: Kit Hughes / Colorado State University

Kit Hughes is Assistant professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. She specializes in television history, nontheatrical film, studies of labor and capitalism, and histories of technology. Her forthcoming book, Television at Work: Industrial Media and American Labor (Oxford University Press), explores how American business developed workplace television as a medium of industrial efficiency, ideological orientation, and corporate expansion. Her research on sponsored film, workplace media, early video formats, and archival methods has appeared in Film History, Media, Culture & Society, Television & New Media, American Archivist, and elsewhere. As a one-time UT M.A. student, she served as Columns editor for FLOW (2008-09).