Graduate Speaker Series

Join us for an exciting collaboration with Villanova University for our annual series Transit Talks! This in-depth conversation will feature Dr. Sarah Banet-Weiser, dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication!

About the Lecture

Dr. Sarah Banet-Weiser will discuss some of the assumptions made when choosing a method for developing research projects. How does a question define a method? How does a method define/limit a question? What are the appropriate relationships between the researcher and their research subjects?

Banet-Weiser, a renowned researcher and author, will emphasize the methods personally used in her research, including ethnography, interviews, and feminist methodologies.

Her teaching and research interests include gender in the media, identity, citizenship, cultural politics, consumer and popular media, race and the media, and intersectional feminism.

About the Speaker

Sarah Banet-Weiser, the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, is also its Lauren Berlant Professor of Communication. She is also a research professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the founding director of the Center for Collaborative Communication at the Annenberg Schools (C3).

Her research is deeply interdisciplinary, as is her editorial work. She was formerly the editor of the flagship journal of the American Studies Association, American Quarterly, and co-editor of the International Communication Association journal, Communication, Culture, Critique. She was the founding co-editor of the New York University Press book series Critical Cultural Communication Studies.