Teaching the Lone Television Studies Graduate Seminar

Abstract

will try to add more television courses to the books in an effort to build up the field so that it warrants teaching, whether from a television, television-film, or television-new media perspective. If television continues to be a marginal presence in many Media Studies curricula, it will become increasingly vulnerable, especially when Television Studies scholars retire and departments consider whether they want to make another TV Studies hire or use the line for something else. If more of us don't build up Television Studies within our curricula, then I foresee a day when there will be no job ads for Television Studies scholars and TV Studies courses will either be removed from the