Hop on Pop The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

Henry Jenkins is Anne Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of editor of several books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and The Children’s Culture Reader.

Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California and author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.

Jane Shattuc is Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. She is author of The Talking Cure: Television Talk Shows and Women and Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture.