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Liz Patton

Liz Patton

Chair and Associate Professor

Media and Communication Studies

Fine Arts 420

Education

Ph D New York University 2013

MA Drexel University 2005

BA New York University 1998

About

Elizabeth Patton is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, affiliate faculty in the department of Language, Literacy and Culture and Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies. She received her PhD in 2013 from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Her book, Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office (Rutgers University Press, 2020), examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and by the communication and real estate industries through mass media during the 20th century. She has also published chapters in edited books and journal articles on media, space and identity and has served as co-managing editor of the Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture since March 2020.

Research Interests

Research interests include representations of gender, class, and race within mass media; the history of communication technology; and the impact of communication technology on space, social identity, leisure studies, and work-life balance.

Teaching Interests

Research methods; history of media and technology; media, space and social identity

Selected Classes

  • Fall 2015 MCS 222 – Introduction to Media and Communication Studies
  • MCS 222 – Introduction to Media and Communication Studies

Intellectual Contributions