Aniko Bodroghkozy
Aniko Bodroghkozy joined the Media Studies Program and English Department at the University of Virginia in 2001. Prior to coming to Virginia, she taught in the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Alberta and at Concordia University in Montreal. Between 2003–2006 she served as the Interim Director of the Media Studies Program. She now serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Prof. Bodroghkozy received her PhD in 1994 from the University of Wisconsin/Madison's Department of Communication Arts where she worked with John Fiske and Lynn Spigel. She received an MFA in Film from Columbia University in New York, and a BA High Honours from the Department of Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Prof. Bodroghkozy's first book, Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion was published by Duke University Press in 2001. She is currently completing her second book, tentatively titled, Negotiating Civil Rights in Prime-Time: Television Audiences and the Civil Rights Era. She has published numerous articles on American cinema and television and the social change movements of the postwar era. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Cinema Journal, Screen, Television and New Media, and the online TV Studies journal Flow. Her work has also been frequently reprinted and anthologized in volumes such as Television: The Critical View, Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture, and Critiquing the Sitcom. She teaches film and television history and historiography, feminist media theory, and Cultural Studies approaches to media analysis.
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Director of Undergraduate Programs
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