Marina Levina, PhD

Academic Positions

 

• Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2024-2027

• Book and Media Review Editor, Women’s Studies in Communication 2019-2022

• Chair, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2025-present

• Co-Chair, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 2025-2026

 

Research Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

           

• University of Memphis Graduate Student Association Mentorship Award, 2025

• National Communication Association Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award, 2024

• University of Memphis Ralph Faudree University Professorship, (2022-2024)

• University of Memphis, College of Communication and Fine Arts Outstanding Research Award, 2018

• University of Memphis, Professional Development Leave, Spring 2017

• University of Edinburgh, Genomics Forum, Bright Ideas Visiting Fellow, October 2012

• University of Memphis Faculty Research Grant 2012

• University of Memphis College of Communication and Fine Arts New Faculty Research Grant 2011

• University of California Lecturer Teaching Fellow 2009-2010

• University of California Professional Development Grant 2008-2009

• Illinois Program for Research in Humanities Graduate Fellow 2004-2005

• University of Illinois Gender and Women Studies’ Feminist Scholarship 2004

• University of Illinois Graduate College Fellowship 2000-2002

 

Teaching and Mentorship Awards

 

• Graduate Student Association Mentorship Award, University of Memphis, 2025

• Nominated for University of Memphis Alumni Association Campus-Wide Teaching Award, 2018, 2019

• Recipient of Campus Wide Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Illinois, 2004

• Recipient of College of Communications Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Illinois, 2004

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students (rated “outstanding”), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2004

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Happe, K. E., Johnson, J., & Levina, M. (Eds.). (2018). Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power. New York University Press. (Reviewed in New Genetics and Society; Journal of Disability and Religion)

 

Levina, M. (2015). Pandemics and the Media. Peter Lang Press. (Reviewed in The Communication Review)

 

Levina, M., & Bui, D. M. T. (Eds.). (2013). Monster culture in the 21st century: A reader. Bloomsbury Academic Press.

 (Reviewed in Choices; CINEJ: Cinema Journal; Information, Culture, and Society)

 

Levina, M., & Kien, G. (Eds.). (2010). Post-global network and everyday life. Peter Lang Press.

 

Special Journal Issues

 

Levina, M (Ed.). (2025). Refuge. Special issue of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, 22(2).

 

Levina, M. (Ed.). (2022). Cultural Chronicles of COVID-19 [Two Part Special FORUM Issue(s)]. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(1) and 19(2).

 

Levina, M. & Silva, K. (Eds.). (2018). Cruelty in the Age of Trump [Special FORUM Issue] Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15(1).

 

Levina, M. & Hasinoff, A. (Eds.). (2017). The Silicon Valley Ethos: Tech Industry Products, Discourses, and Practices, Television & New Media, 18(6).

 

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed journals)

 

Levina, M. (2022). Epidemiology as Methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the Problem of Whiteness. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,19(2).

 

Tabrizi, H. & Levina, M (2022). Conceptualizing “the end” of COVID-19: temporality and linear mobilization toward health, Review of Communication, 22(2)..

 

Christensen, K. & Levina, M. (2022). Saving White Women: Vulnerability and the Immobilized Body in Don’t Breathe (2016). Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, online first, June 26, 2022.

 

Levina, M. (2020). Queering Intimacy, Six Feet Apart. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(3), 195-200.

 

Dubrofsky, R. E., & Levina, M. (2020). The labor of consent: affect, agency and whiteness in the age of# metoo. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 37(5), 409-423.

 

Levina, M. (2020). The Violence of Merit. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9(1), 20-24.

 

Levina, M. (2018). Whiteness and the joys of cruelty. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15(1), 73-78.

 

Levina, M., & Silva, K. (2018). Cruel intentions: affect theory in the age of Trump.  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15(1), 70-72.

 

Levina, M. (2017). Under Lenin’s watchful eye: Growing up in the former Soviet Union. Surveillance & Society, 15(3/4), 529-534.

 

Levina, M. (2017). Disrupt or die: Mobile health and disruptive innovation as body politics. Television & New Media, 18(6), 548-564.

 

Levina, M., & Hasinoff, A. A. (2017). The Silicon Valley ethos: Tech industry products, discourses, and practices. Television & New Media, 18(6), 489-495.

 

Levina, M. (2014). From feminism without bodies, to bleeding bodies in virtual spaces. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 11(3), 278-281.

 

Levina, M. (2012). “Healthymagination: Anticipating health of our future selves. The Fibreculture Journal, 20.

 

Levina, M. (2010). Googling your genes: personal genomics and the discourse of citizen bioscience in the network age. Journal of Science Communication, 9(1).

 

Levina, M., Dantas, G., Fishbein, M., Von Haeften, I., & Montano, D. (2001) “Factors influencing men who have sex with men’s intentions to always use condoms for vaginal, anal and oral sex with their regular partners”, Psychology, Health & Medicine, 6(2), 191-206.

 

Levina, M., Waldo, C.R., & Fitzgerald, L.F. (2000). “We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re on TV: The Effects of Visual Media on Heterosexual’s Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbians”, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30(4), 738-759.

 

Book Chapters

 

Levina, M. (2023). Covid and Essential Workers: Medical Crises and the Rhetorical Strategies of Disposability. In J. Malkowiski, A. Rowland, & E. Winderman (Eds.), COVID, AND... Perspectives at the Intersections of Disease and Rhetoric Michigan State University Press (The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2024 Book of the Year Award)

 

Levina, M. (2018). Non-human biocitizens: Lab animals and the politics of hope. In Happe, K. E., Johnson, J., & Levina, M. (Eds.). Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power (pp. 233-254). New York: New York University Press.

 

Levina, M. & Bui, D. (2013.) Toward a Comprehensive Monster Theory in the 21st Century, In M. Levina and D. Bui (Eds.), Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader, Bloomsbury Academic Press.

 

Levina, M. (2012). Our Data, ourselves: Feminist narratives of empowerment in Health 2.0 discourse. In R. Gajjalla & Y.J. Oh (Eds.), Cyberfeminism 2.0, Peter Lang Publications.

 

Levina, M. (2011). Cultural narratives of blood” in Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies Robert Smith (Ed.), University of Ottawa Press, 2011

 

Levina, M. & Kien, G. (2010). Control and fear in post-global network. In M. Levina & G. Kien (Eds.), Post-global network and everyday life, Peter Lang Publications.

 

Levina, M. (2010). Health 2.0 and managing “dividual” care in the network. In M. Levina & G. Kien (Eds.). Post-global network and everyday life, Peter Lang Publications.

 

Levina, M. (2009). Regulation and discipline in the genomic age: A consideration of differences between genetic engineering and genomics. In S. Binkley & J. Capetillo (Eds.). A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Levina, M. (2007). Cracking the code: Genomics in documented fantasies and fantastic documentaries,” In M. Grebowicz (Ed.), Joys of SF: Essays in Science and Technology Studies. Open Court Press.

 

Levina, M (2003). How the vampire got neutered: Boundary surveillance and technoscientific discourse on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In C.T. Kungl (Ed.), Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of the Enduring Evil, Inter-Disciplinary Press.

 

Invited Publications

 

Levina, M. (2025). Doing critical cultural studies in the age of totalitarian thought. Editorial for Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, 22(1).

 

Levina, M. (2018). Technology. Feminist Media Histories, 4 (2), 191–195

 

Levina, M. (2017).  Network. In J. Gray and L. Ouellette (Eds.), Keywords for Media Studies (pp. 127-130). New York University Press.

 

Levina, M., & Quinn, R. (2011). From symptomatic to pre-symptomatic patient: The tide of personal genomics. Journal of Science Communication, 10(3).

 

Research in Progress

 

“His House (2020) and the Performance of Refugee Identity” (with Dr. Kalemba Kizito and Sneha Goswami), article under development for Qualitative Inquiry

 

“From Russian to Ukrainian: The impossibility of language and decoloniality”, invited chapter for The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism (Drs. Shinsuke Eguchi and Jungmin Kwon, Editors)

 

Teaching

 

Courses Taught and Developed

           

University of Memphis (2010-present)

 

Graduate Seminars (mixed level PhD and MA)

• Body Studies

• Cultural Meanings of Pandemics

• Current Trends in Critical Cultural Studies

• Surveillance Studies

• Bodies and Technologies

• New Media and Society

• Affective Politics, Politics of Affect

• Critical Studies of Science and Technology

• Media Theory and Criticism

 

Undergraduate/MA Mixed Level Courses

• Monster films

• Gender and Film

• Media Theory and Criticism

• Media 2.0

• Monster Films

• Bodies and Technologies

 

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Film

• Rhetoric of Popular Culture

• Television and Culture

 

University of California, Berkeley (2006-2010)

 

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Mass Media

• Visual Communication

• The Structure of Mass Media

• Television Studies

• Critical Studies of Popular Culture

• Monster Films

• Visual Culture Studies

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Seminar

 

University of Illinois at Chicago (2004-2006)

           

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Mass Media

• Interpersonal Communication

• Communication Research Methods,

• Critical Studies of Popular Culture

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000-2004)

 

Undergraduate Courses

• Communication and Popular Culture

• Social and Cultural Fundamentals of Mass Media

 

Graduate Advising

 

PhD Chair

 

Current

• Curtis Chamblee, The University of Memphis (projected defense date 2025)

• Sneha Goswami, The University of Memphis (projected defense date 2026)

• Kenneth Avery, The University of Memphis (projected defense date 2027)

 

Completed

• Hannah Tabrizi, The University of Memphis (defended 2023)

• Kalemba Kizito, The University of Memphis (defended 2019)

• Carolyn Block, The University of Memphis (defended 2019)

• Kyle Christensen, The University of Memphis (defended 2018)

• Scarlett Hester, The University of Memphis (defended 2017)

 

PhD Committee

 

Current

• Jonathan Briedenbaker, The University of Memphis (projected defense date 2025)

 

Completed

• Celnisha Dangerfield, The University of Memphis (defended 2023)

• Rachel Camp, The University of Memphis (defended 2023)

• Adam Hughes, The University of Memphis (defended 2022)

• Sarah Scott, The University of Memphis (defended 2019)

• Scott Anderson, The University of Memphis (defended 2017)

• Kirsten Hungerford, the University of Memphis (defended 2016)

 

MA Chair

 

Current

• Anna Dean, The University of Memphis (projected defense 2026)

 

Completed

• Katherine Slattery, The University of Memphis (completed 2012)

 

MA/MFA Committee

 

Completed

• Aiden Boatman, The University of Memphis (defended 2019)

• Bradley Knox, The University of Memphis (defended 2018)

• David Goodman, University of North Texas (MFA defended 2015)

• Anna Creagh, University of California, Berkeley (defended 2009)

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Academic Addresses

 

Invited Presentations

 

National Communication Association Scholar Office Hours, 2022-2025

 

Rhetoric Society of America Summer institute, invited workshop leader, “Mediated Rhetorics of Crisis and Renewal” (co-lead with Drs. Sarah Jackson and Claire Sisco King), June 2021

 

“Cultural Meanings of Pandemics,” invited speaker, 26th MURAP Annual Academic Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (via zoom July 2020)

 

“Pandemics in the Media,” university-wide lecture sponsored by the Otter Student Union, California State, Monterey Bay (via zoom March 2020)

 

“Pandemics in the Media” invited speaker at Davidson College (via zoom April 2020)

 

“Pandemics and the Media” invited speaker at Skidmore College (via zoom April 2020)

 

“Body Disruptions: Biohacking and the Politics of Memory,” invited speaker at the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (February 2019)

 

“Disrupt or Die: Mobile Health and Disruptive Innovation as Body Politics,” invited speaker at the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, University of California, Davis (June 10, 2016)

 

“Pandemics, Globalization, and Digital Media,” invited speaker at a Café Scientifique, Edinburgh, UK and organized by the Genomics Network, University of Edinburgh (October 23, 2012)

 

“Pandemics, Citizenship, and Digital Media Technologies,” invited speaker at the Department of Sociology Colloquium, Lancaster University, UK and at the EGENIS seminar, University of Exeter, UK (October 9 and October 15, 2012)

 

“A Pre-Patient’s Bill of Rights: Genomic Data-Sharing, Citizenship and the Moral Economy of the Network,” invited speaker at the Genomics Policy & Research Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK (February 10, 2012)

 

“Patient Forums, Consumer Health Care, and Biolabor in Network Society” presented at the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Future of the Forum Symposium, University of California, Berkeley (December 5, 2009)

 

“Health 2.0, Network Subjectivity, and the Work of Being Healthy” presented at the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, University of California, Berkeley (October 19, 2009)

 

“Viral Networks and Zombie Invasions: Conceptualizing control of [post]human life” presented at the Berkeley Center for New Media Faculty Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley (February 19th, 2009)

 

“New media and genetics: Networks and remediation of the human body” presented at The Mediated Self conference, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay (May 30, 2008)

 

“Metaphors of blood and genes in popular culture” presented at the Department of Communication Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago (February 13, 2006)

 

“Managing difference: The transition from blood to genes in popular and scientific discourse” presented at the Gender and Women Studies Feminist Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (September 7, 2005)

 

“From Blood to Genes: Constructing difference through science” presented at Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Seventh Annual Conference “Difference”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 1st, 2005)

 

“Of Monsters, Freaks, and Mutants: Popular culture, scientific discourse and the management of monstrous bodies” invited speakerat the Institute of Medicine and Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland (March 21, 2005)

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Selected Conference Presentations (All refereed)

 

“Refugee Hauntings and Trauma in His House (2020)” presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2024.

 

“Intervening in Surveillance: A Critical Conversation on Crisis Vision” discussion panel presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2023

 

“Fighting for Freedom, Centering Ukrainian Voices” discussion panel presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2023

 

“Saving White Women: Vulnerability and the Immobilized Body in "Don't Breathe" (2016)” presented at Critical and Cultural Studies Division Top Paper Session, at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2021

 

“COVID-19 as a Pandemic of Intersection: Toward Critical Articulations of Health and Intersectionality” discussion panel presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2021

 

“Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access of/by/for U.S.-Based International Scholars in NCA” discussion panel at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2020

 

“Emerging Outbreaks Revisited: Exploring the Rhetorical Contours of the Coronavirus” discussion panel at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2020

 

“The Affective Labor of Consent: Agency and Desire in the age of Metoo” (with Rachel Dubrofsky) presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 2019

 

““Don’t Breathe (2016), disability, vulnerability, and the affective politics of cruelty” presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, April 2019

 

“Performing Vulnerabilities: The Politics of Resistance and Privilege” presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 2018

 

"“Living Like a Refugee”: A Post-National Life in a Post-National World" presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 2018

 

“Zika Virus and Media Coverage of Brazil Epidemic” presented at Southern States Communication Association Conference, April 2018

 

“Mothering in the Academy” presented at Southern States Communication Association Conference, April 2018

 

“Cruelty in Age of Trump” presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 2017.

 

“Monstrosity and Communication Discipline” presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 2017.

 

“Non-human Biocitizens: Lab Animals and the Politics of Hope” presented at Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, November 2015

 

“Post-Apocalypse/Post-Affect: Kinships and Re-Productive Imaginaries in Feminist Science Fiction” presented at Affect Theory Conference, October 2015

 

“Non-human lab bodies as saints and monsters: Scientific production of affective monstrosities” presented at the Popular Communication Association Conference, April 2015

 

100 Years of Postcoloniality: Intersections of Communication Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Digital Humanities and Affective Labor” panel discussion at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2014

 

“A Pre-Patient’s Bill of Rights: Data-Sharing, Biocitizenship and the Moral Economy of the Network” presented at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2014

 

“Biological Warfare and Synthetic Organisms” presented at the Southern Communication Association Conference, April 2014

 

“Critical feminist interventions in new media studies” panel discussion at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2013

 

“Game of Drones: Critical/Cultural Perspectives on America's New Warfare” panel discussion at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2013

 

“Engaging the Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project” panel discussion at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2013

 

“Zombie Apocalypse and Its Viruses: An Intersectional Approach” presented at the National Communications Association Conference, November 2013

 

“Ontology of Monstrosity and Synthetic Life” presented at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, July 2012

 

“Biocapitalism of Monstrosities” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2011

 

“Healthymagination: Anticipation and Affect in Health Information Technologies” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, October 2011

 

““And Man Made Life”: Synthetic Organisms and Monstrous Imaginaries” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, October 2011

 

“Citizen Bioscience in the Age of New Media” presented at the Media in Transition 7 Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2011

 

“Personal Genomics, Consumer Affect, and Biolabor 2.0 in Network Society” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2010

 

“Oprah-phication of Medicine: Exploring Rhetorical Boundaries of Controversial Medical Practices” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2010

 

“Affective Labor and Personal Genomics in Network Society” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, October 2009

 

 “[Post]Global Network: Stability, Change and Everyday Life in the Array” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2009

 

“Biocitizenship 2.0: Personal Genomics and Free Labor in Network Society” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2009

 

“Google Health 2.0 and Managing Individual Care in the Network” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, May 2009

 

“Viral Networks and Zombie Invasions: Conceptualizing control of [post]human life” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2008

 

“Save the Cheerleader, Save the Network: Heroes, convergence tactics, and the corporatization of cult narratives” presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, March 2008

 

“Revamping the Vampire: Blood Metaphors and the Historical Construction of Sexual Identity in Vampire Cinema” presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2007

 

“Regulating the Other in the Genomic Age: A Consideration of Differences between Genetic Engineering and Eugenics” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2006

 

“The Second Coming: Transgenic Mice, Glowing Rabbits, and Humanimals of the Art Exhibit Gene(sis)” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2006

 

“Constructing the abnormal: Scientific metaphors and cultural classification of difference” presented at Mephistos: International Conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine, April 2006

 

“Visualizing genomic science: Experiencing the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology’s genetics exhibit” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2004

 

“Communicating the scientific: Human Genome Project and the genetic body in the documentary Cracking the Code of Life” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2004

 

“Transgressions of the Genetic Kind: Gattaca and the Management of the Freakish Body in the Genomic Age” presented at the Crossroads – 5th International Conference in Cultural Studies, June 2004

 

“How the vampire got neutered: Boundary surveillance and technoscientific discourse on Buffy the Vampire Slayer” presented at the “At the Interface” series’ first global conference on Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of the Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 2003

 

“Keep the Blood Flowing: Blood Banks and the Construction of (Trans)national Identity” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, 2002

 

“The Bloody Tales of the Queer ‘Other’: AIDS and the Vampire Cinema of the 1990s” presented at the National Communication Association Conference, 2001

 

“To Thine Own Group Be True: Social Identity Construction and Queer Youth Subculture” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, 2001

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Professional Service

 

Departmental and University-Wide

 

• College of Communication and Fine Arts, Budget Advisory Committee, 2024-present

• College of Communication and Fine Arts Strategic Plan Committee 2023-2024

• Director of Graduate Studies, 2019 -2023

• Graduate Committee, Department of Communication and Film, 2014-2023

• College of Communication and Fine Arts Graduate Council 2014-2016; 2019-2023

• Search Committee, Department of Communication, University of Memphis, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2020

• Department Chair Search Committee, 2018-2019

• Department Workload Committee, 2018

• Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, 2015 and 2016

• Supervising Faculty, University of Memphis Department of Communication PhD Student Publishing Group, 2014-2015

• Reviewer, University of Memphis Faculty Research Grant Review Committee in Arts and Humanities, 2013-2015

• Judge, University of Memphis 24th Annual Student Research Forum, 2012

• Media, Technology, and Society Colloquium Organizer, Department of Communication, University of Memphis 2012-present

• Advising to the Chair Committee, Department of Communication, University of Memphis, 2011-2013

• Public Address Conference Organizing Committee, Department of Communication, University of Memphis, 2011-2012

• Web/PR Committee, Department of Communication, University of Memphis, 2010-2012

• Admissions Committee, Media Studies Program, UC Berkeley, 2007-2010

• Outcomes Assessment Committee, Media Studies Program, UC Berkeley, 2007-2008

 

Discipline

           

• National Endowment for Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant Reviewer, 2024

• Leadership, Critical Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2022-present

• Publications Council, National Communication Association 2020-2023 term

• Editorial Board, Surveillance and Society, Television and New Media

• Manuscript Reviewer for Communication, Culture and Critique, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Electronic Journal of Communication, Foucault Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Television and New Media, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Science Communication, New Media and Society, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, New Genetics and Society, Surveillance and Society, Culture, Health, and Sexuality.

• Submissions Reviewer, National Communication Association

• Monograph Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Routledge, Peter Lang, University of California Press, Bloomsbury Academic Press, and Continuum Press

• Grant Referee for European Research Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

 

Conference

 

• Panel Chair, “Representing Refugees in Film, Television, and Visual Media,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2024

• Panel Chair, “Fighting for Freedom, Centering Ukrainian Voices,” National Communication Association Conference, November 2023

• Panel Chair, Monstrous Transformations: Male Monsters in 1970s Popular Culture, National Communication Association Conference, 2021

• Respondent, “COVID-19, Vulnerability, Resistance, and Renewal,” National Communication Association Conference, 2021

• Panel Chair, “Performing Vulnerabilities: The Politics of Resistance and Privilege,” National Communication Association Conference, 2018

• Respondent, “Bodies that Matter: Exposed, Vulnerable, Human, and Nonhuman,” National Communication Association Convention, 2018

• Panel Chair, “Technologies of Monstrosity and Feminist Intersectionality in the 21st Century”, National Communications Association Conference, 2013

• Panel Chair, “Monstrous Culture in the 21st Century”, National Communication Association Conference, 2011

• Panel Chair, “Going Rogue: Feminist Discourse and Politics of Transgression in Contemporary Culture,” National Communication Association Conference, 2010

• Panel Chair, “Denoting Danger, Connoting Freedom: Everyday life in the [post]global network,” International Communication Association Conference, 2009.

• Panel Chair, “Denoting Danger, Connoting Freedom: Theorizing control in the new global [post]human network”, National Communication Association Conference, 2008

• Panel Chair, “Thinking beyond new media: Convergence culture and a production of narratives, identities, and communities”, Popular Culture Association Conference, 2007

• Panel Chair, “Politicizing Art: Visual Culture as a Site for Social Action and Critique”, National Communication Association Conference, 2006

• Panel Chair, “Visualizing Technoscapes”, National Communication Association Conference, 2004

• Respondent, “Depictions of Femininity on Television”, a panel at the Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, 2002

 

In the Media

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Behind the Mask: Four Memphians on the Myths, Merits, and Making of Masks, Memphis Flyer, August 5, 2020

 

Zombies and viruses: Memphis scholar studies pandemic movies to understand society's response, Commercial Appeal, April 14, 2020

 

What’s Us About? Dr. Marina Levina On 2019’s Most Intriguing Film, Memphis Flyer, March 30, 2019

 

University of Memphis becomes Monsters U for Film Class, Commercial Appeal, December 17, 2013

 

Remake: Protests aside, revisiting source material nothing new for Hollywood filmmakers,, Commercial Appeal, November 20, 2011

 

FX's Small Screen Screamer by David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 2011

 

Creature Feature by Louis Goggans, Memphis Flyer, October 27, 2011

 

Technology: A flavour of the future by Arran Frood, Nature, 468, S21-S22, Dec 23, 2010
Monster Classes Probe New Vein of Scholarship by Michelle Locke, The Associated Press, Oct 29, 2009.

A Zombie Invasion: Monster movies class looks beyond the thrills and the chills of the scary genre by Carol Ness, UC Berkeley News, Oct 27, 2009

Vampires: Still Undead and More Popular than Ever radio interview, WFPL 89.3, Louisville, KY, October 29, 2009

New Media  and  Presidential Election, Live Interview with SkyNews, England, Nov 3, 2008

 

InFocus: Marina Levina on American Media Television interview, CalTV, Berkeley, CA, October 23, 2008

 

Membership

 

• National Communication Association

• Society of Cinema and Media Studies

• Rhetoric Society of America

 

Languages

 

• Fluent – English, Russian

• Proficiency – Ukrainian

• Elementary Level – French