ONEONTA, N.Y. --
Dr.
Christine Quail, Assistant Professor of
Communication Arts at the SUNY College at Oneonta, has been
awarded the 2007 Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic
Excellence. Quail will deliver the thirteenth annual Richard
Siegfried Lecture, an address entitled "The Hypersexualization of
Girls in Media and Culture," in the Craven Lounge of the Morris
Conference Center at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 29. Admission
to the event is complimentary, and members of the community are
invited to attend the presentation and the dessert reception that
precedes it at 7 p.m.
Quail will address the stretching of adolescence and how the
hypersexualization of girls contributes to a culture in which girls
are crafted as overly sexual at a young age. She will also consider
how this phenomenon limits the possibilities for girls' success in
society and normalizes degradation of girls and humanity in general.
Her multimedia presentation will include short clips from a variety
of media.
Dr. Quail, who joined the SUNY-Oneonta faculty in 2005, is
co-author of the 2006 book Vulture Culture: The Politics and
Pedagogy of Daytime Television Talk Shows, which explores how
daytime television talk shows take guests' personal narratives and
transform them into spectacle, entertainment, and information.
At SUNY-Oneonta, Quail teaches courses in Media Law and
Regulation, Mass Media and Culture, Mass Communication, and the
History and Philosophy of Documentary. Her research interests
include community communication infrastructure, the political
economy of communication, youth culture and media, and race, gender,
sexuality, class, and religion in media. She holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Oregon and a master's and bachelor's degree from Penn
State.
The Siegfried Prize, which is awarded annually, recognizes a
non-tenured SUNY-Oneonta faculty member for outstanding academic
achievement outside the classroom. The prize was made possible by
gifts from alumni to the Alumni Annual Fund and by a special gift
from Alice Siegfried in memory of her husband, theater professor
Richard K. Siegfried, who taught at the College from 1958 to 1995. |
