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Laurie Ouellette is a Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts (1998) and an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research (1993). Her research focuses on critical media and cultural studies, examining media’s role in shaping subjectivities, gender, race, class, and precarity. She co-edited Keywords in Media Studies and authored Viewers Like You? and Lifestyle TV.
Her work analyzes reality TV’s intersection with neoliberalism, governance, and social issues, including studies on prison-televisual entanglements, police representation (COPS), and feminist critiques of decluttering culture. She is editor-in-chief of Television & New Media and a columnist for Film Quarterly.
Recent research explores carceral systems (60 Days In), media’s role in social justice, and the political implications of reality TV. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges media studies, cultural theory, and feminist analysis.
