Jennifer Boland
PhD Candidate/Instructor
Biography
An alumnus of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Communication programme, Jen鈥檚 research foci include popular culture; audience studies; television studies, and especially reality television; and representations of consumption, family, and the home. Her current research project combines the work of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, among others, to re-think contemporary circulations and audience encounters of 鈥榮nippets鈥� of popular culture. Jen also has a diploma in graphic design from Algonquin College.
Jen has been a contract instructor in the Department of Journalism and Communication since 2016, teaching courses such as Screen Studies, Global Media and Popular Culture, Media Audiences and Users, and Qualitative Methods in Communication.