MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Jason Mittell, who has been teaching in the departments of film & media culture and American studies at Middlebury College since 2002, has been promoted from assistant professor to the rank of associate professor without limit of tenure.
The board of trustees, at its meeting on December 6 in New York City, accepted the recommendations of President Ronald D. Liebowitz and the board’s educational affairs committee in promoting Mittell. His promotion takes effect July 1, 2008.
Jason Mittell received his B.A. in English and theater from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1992. He earned his M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) from the media & cultural studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an assistant professor at Middlebury since 2002. He had worked previously as a lecturer and teaching assistant in the communications art department at Wisconsin (1994-2000), and as an assistant professor of communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta (2000-2002). Mittell is the author of numerous book chapters, articles, and reviews and his most recent book is Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004). He has a contract with the Oxford University Press for a book about television and American culture.
Mittell’s research interests include television history and criticism, media and cultural history, genre theory, animation and children’s media, cultural historiography, race and gender studies, and new media studies and technological convergence. At his Web site, he says he writes “informally on my blog, Just TV, and semi-formally on Flow; please visit and comment!”