Melissa Meade

Dr. Melissa Meade holds an M.A. and PhD from the University of Washington and a BA from Purdue University. Her scholarship, teaching, and thinking has been at the intersection of media studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, and before coming to SPSCC she taught communication, media, and gender studies at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. She has worked with the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force, The Third Wave Fund, and FemTechNet (feminist technology network), and recent articles have appeared in LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader (NYU Press) and Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). Most recently she has presented her work on communication, media, gender, and psychoanalysis to the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. She is currently working with Professor Liza Brenner, on "The Medusa Project," a series of paintings and essays exploring collective female subjectivity.