Dr. Tiffany A. Christian

Bio

Dr. C (fluid pronouns) has lived much of her life in the west, including California, Oregon and Washington. In the process, she has taken on jobs ranging from typer of obituaries (and other things) for a weekly newspaper, to the editor of a small magazine about converting buses into motor homes, to adjunct composition instructor at a variety of institutions. An occasional work of creative writing was published. Finally, in 2017, she accomplished one of her #lifegoals: earning a Ph.D. 

Dr. C's research interests include (but are certainly not limited to) the relationships among gender, race, sexuality, dis/ability, and body size in media and popular culture. Her dissertation work focused on the functions of narrative and folklore in the maintenance of dominant forms of masculinity in disaster preparedness culture. She is a social justice bard. 

Personal interests include writing, singing, gaming, "geek" popular culture (science fiction and in particular anything to do with the apocalypse), animals, and the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Currently she is working on a "novel-like" manuscript in addition to her teaching at SVC. 

Her cat has an Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missyprincesskitty/

Publications

• “Science-Fiction Shows on Television." Race in American Television: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation [2 volumes], edited by David Leonard and Stephanie Robbins, Greenwood, 2021, pp. 574-584. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440843068.
• "Using the Past to Recuperate the Present: The Authentic Evil of Madame Delphine Lalaurie in American Horror Story: Coven." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 5, Oct. 2019, pp. 1101-1119, doi:10.1111/jpcu.12845.
• “’Look at the flowers’: Meme Culture and the (Re)Centering of Hegemonic Masculinities Through Women Characters.” The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and Comics, edited by Elizabeth Erwin and Dawn Keetley, McFarland, 2018.
• “The Recuperation of Wounded Hegemonic Masculinity on Doomsday Preppers.” InThe Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media, edited by Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, and Mary F. Pharr, McFarland, 2016.
• Zombies R Us: Disaster Preparedness Groups, Self-Reliance, and the Death of Modernity -- folklore documentary, 2011.
• Five Minutes of Fame: a Karaokumentary – folklore documentary, 2009.

Education

• PhD, 2017, Washington State University -- American Studies
• MA, 2011, University of Oregon -- Folklore
• MFA, 2005, Chapman University -- Creative Writing
• BA, 1999, Pacific University -- English Literature/Creative Writing

Links

Zombies R Us (folklore documentary): https://youtu.be/F7LwhYI1Ut8

Five Minutes of Fame: a Karaokumentary (folklore documentary): https://youtu.be/mnsPf5dE8YI 

reading of original poem "Her Monster": https://youtu.be/TxOByERLsQI