Hugh Curnutt

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Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Media

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Life Hall 225A
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973 655-4464
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Degree(s):
BS:New York University
MA:Georgetown University
PhD:University of Pittsburgh
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Profile

Hugh Curnutt works in the areas of critical media and cultural studies. His research is broadly concerned with evolving communication technologies and the shifting intersection of media producers and consumers. Currently, his main project explores the changing televisual landscape, especially the relationship between television and reality TV's participants. His interests include celebrity, media and cultural history, psychoanalytic theory, technology, and television studies.


Courses Taught:

- Critical Television Studies
- HBO to Mad Men: Premium Television and the Post-Network Era
- In the Control Room: Perspectives on Reality TV and the Work of Being Watched
- Media and Society
- Persuasion and Transmedia Campaigns
- Seminar in Media and Cultural Studies
- Theorizing Communication and Media Arts
- TV Dinner: Foodie Television in the Post-Network Era


Selected Publications:

Curnutt, H. (2013). You can't handle my truth: Reality TV's trompe-l'oeil effect and the (im)possible reality of its participants. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, advanced online publication (doi: 10.1057/pcs.2013.5). http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/pcs20135a.html

Curnutt, H. (2012). Flashing your phone: Sexting and the remediation of teenage sexuality. Communication Quarterly, 60(3), 353-369. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01463373.2012.688728

Curnutt, H. (2011). Durable participants: A generational approach to reality TV's 'ordinary' labor pool. Media, Culture & Society, 33(7), 1061-1076. http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/33/7/1061.abstract

Curnutt, H. (2009). 'A fan crashing the party:' Exploring reality-celebrity in MTV's Real World franchise. Television & New Media, 10(3), 251-266. http://tvn.sagepub.com/content/10/3/251.abstract

Curnutt, H. (2008). 'I did reality TV before it was called reality TV:' Navigating generational constraints in MTV's reality-celebrity. In K. R. Hart (Ed.), Film and Television Stardom (pp. 248-269). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/9781847186287-sample.pdf

Office Hours

Spring

  • Monday 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
  • Thursday 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm