Lisa Wells Jacobson

Lisa Wells Jacobson is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. Her academic work examines historical narrative construction in contemporary media with emphasis on television's relationship to digital culture.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in Film & Media from the University of California, Berkeley
• MA in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley
• MA in Art and Literature from Leiden University, Netherlands

Dr. Jacobson's research centers on how period television serials like FX's 'The Americans' dramatize discontent with digital connectivity through nostalgic portrayals of slower-paced historical eras. She investigates the rise of deliberately anachronistic historical storytelling in the 'post-truth' era, bridging Television Studies, Film History, and Digital Media Critique. Her interdisciplinary approach connects seriality, historical fiction, and media materiality to contemporary socio-technological anxieties.

Her recent publications reveal a scholarly trajectory focused on narrative temporality and media archaeology, analyzing how analog technologies like the Walkman function as cultural time machines that critique digital saturation through embodied historical engagement.

Scientific Awards: None mentioned in source material.

Advising and grants: No information available regarding student supervision or funded research projects.