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Peter C. Kunze serves as Assistant Professor and Internship Coordinator in the Department of Communication at Tulane University, teaching courses including Disney and US Culture, Film Analysis, Media Industry Analysis, Race and the Hollywood Musical, and Wes Anderson and World Cinema. His academic foundation includes dual Ph.D.s in Media Studies (University of Texas at Austin) and English (Florida State University), complemented by an M.A. in English and dual B.A. degrees in Communications and English from Rowan University.
His research centers on US media history, media aesthetics, industry studies, convergence culture, and children's media, with current projects examining digital animation transformation, unproduced film historiography, and Hollywood DEI policies. Kunze's 2023 monograph Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press) reinterprets creative talent flows between theatrical and film industries during Disney's creative resurgence.
Scholarly output demonstrates consistent focus on Disney studies, Broadway-film intersections, and children's media across journals like Black Camera, Creative Industries, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. His recent publications (2022-2025) reveal evolving attention to contemporary industry issues including 'woke' corporate branding, AI pedagogy, and media labor politics within entertainment conglomerates.
Professionally, Kunze co-founded SCMS's Children's and Youth Media SIG (2016), currently co-chairs the Media Industries SIG, serves on SCMS Professional Development Committee and Children's Literature Association board, and holds editorial roles at Studies in Musical Theatre (Reviews Editor), International Journal of Disney Studies, and Literature/Film Quarterly. Since 2022, he has co-hosted the New Books in Film podcast while directing Tulane's internship program through seminar instruction and student mentorship.
