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Dr. Cynthia W. WalkerAssociate Professor, Department of CommunicationSt. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ
Contact Info:Office: 51 Glenwood (2nd Floor)
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Phone: 1-201-761-6332
Email: cwalker1@spc.edu
My blog: http://ciwalker.typepad.com/blog/
Office hours: M-F: 9:45-10:45 am; after 2 p.m. by appt.
Undergraduate Courses:
CU/AR 190 Intro to Film
CU 205 News Writing and Reporting
CU 206 Advanced News Writing and Editing Workshop
CU/MM 213 Advertising and the New Media
CU/MM 247 Marketing Communications
CU 256 The Horror Film
CU 265 Screenwriting
CU 266 Advanced Screenwriting
CU 270 Broadcast Studies
CU 280 Mediated Communication in Organizations and Society
CU 281 Media Literacy
CU/WS 285 Gender and Communication
CU 300 Film Theory and Criticism
CU 306 The Animated Film
CU 350 Public Relations
CU 400 Research Writing
Graduate Courses:
GB688-70 Social Networking and New Media
Research Interests:
Film, television, popular culture, fan and production studies, journalism, public relations, media literacy
Current Academic and Professional Activity
An Interview with Paula Smith, special history issue, Transformative Works and Culture (6), March 15, 2011 available at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/243/205
From Letter Columns to Social Networks: How New Media Shaped and Changed the Fandom Community, presentation as part of a panel, “Not Like It Used to Be: New Technologies, New Relationships and New Strategies for the New Media Environment,” at 15th annual New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA) conference, March 19, 2011, Bergen Community College, Paramus NJ.
Current Publications:
"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Ian Fleming's Other Spy" in R.G. Weiner, B.L. Whitfied and J. Becker (Eds.) James Bond and Popular Culture: The Films Are Not Enough, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2010.
"The Future Just Beyond the Coat Hook: Technology, Politics and the Postmodern Sensibility in the Man From U.N.C.L.E." In L. Geraghty (Ed.) Channeling the Future, Scarecrow Press, May 2009.
Critic and correspondent, professional regional theater for The Home News Tribune, a daily newspaper covering Central New Jersey. Links to my recent reviews:
Liner notes and onscreen commentary for The Man from U.N.C.L.E DVD set, produced by D*G Entertainment for Time/Warner and distributed by Time/Life. Release: November, 2007.
Backstage with Larry Nolan on Comcast recently featured the newly released DVD set and included clips from my onscreen commentary. You can watch it here or just click below:
Past Conferences
The Fans Did What? Introducing Students to Participatory Culture in session on Teaching Communication in the New Media Environment, NCA 96th Annual Convention, Nov. 14-17, 2010 in
The Role of the Communication Major at a Liberal Arts College: A Small Private Liberal Arts College Perspective, panel, 14th Annual Conference of New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA), April 10, 2010, at College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.
Where Do We Go From Here? Guiding Students to an Online Journalism Career, panel, 14th Annual Conference of New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA), April 10, 2010, at
Media Education and the Future of Journalism. Panel, Media Conversations VI 2009 : An International Conference of Youth, Media, and Education, June 4-6, 2009. Held at Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus, The Players Club, and Fordham University , Lincoln Center Campus, NYC. Organized with support from the Institute of General Semantics , Media Ecology Association (MEA) and The Players Club.
Remix, Rewrite, and Converge: Navigating Fan Communities and Participatory Culture. Presented as part of a panel, Gathering together: Social life on the Net at The 13th Annual New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA) Conference, March 28, 2009 at Kean University , Union, NJ .
Unlikely Allies: How Producers and Audiences Are Collaborating to Create Innovative Forms of Popular Culture. Presented as part of a panel called, "unCONVENTIONal Connections in a Culture of Convergence" at the 94th Annual Conference of The National Communication Association, November 22, 2008, in San Diego, CA
Transformative Culture: The Evolving Relationship between Fan Audiences and Media Producers. Presented at the 12th Annual Conference of New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA), March 22, 2008, at Marymount College in Manhattan.
Managing Competing Worldviews: Creating a Support System for Scholar/Mothers in the Communication Field. Presented at the 93rd Annual National Communication Association (NCA) Convention, November 15-18, 2007, Chicago, IL.
Other Publications:
Participated in the Summer, 2007 online symposium between male and female academics who study media fandom posted on the weblog of noted media scholar, Henry Jenkins.
My two-part conversation with Derek Kompare, asst. professor of Cinema-Television in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, begins here
Entries for Encyclopedia of Television. Edited by Horace Newcomb, Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 2005 (2nd ed.)
Online at the Museum of Broadcast Communication:
Media Literacy, Media Fandom and Participatory Culture, Journal of Media Literacy (54)2-3, Winter, 2007.
“Sexy Nerds: Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Spock, and the Image of the Cerebral Hero in TV Drama.” In L. Holderman (Ed.) Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, Lexington Books, published March, 2008. Purchase the book here
Membership, Professional/Academic Organizations
Executive board member, New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists (NJSPJ)
Society for Professional Journalists (National SPJ)
National Communication Association (NCA)
International Communication Association (ICA)
Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA)
Media Ecology Assocation (MEA)
National Association for Media Literacy Education NAMLE
Moderator, Aca-Moms discussion group, at Yahoogroups,com
Moderator: The Peacock Network, a Facebook discussion list for Communication Department alumni.
Want to join? Find us on Facebook or email Dr. Walker at cwalker1@spc.edu
Dr. Walker received her Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, A Dialogic Approach to Creativity in Mass Communication proposesa dialogic model of mass communication, using the 1960’s television series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as a case study.
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