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Essays, research notes, and listening guides
Long-form posts that extend episode themes with television scholarship, feminist media studies, and cultural analysis—written for academically minded readers.
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What you will find on the blog
Use the blog to follow new writing between episodes, locate thematic reading lists, and track ongoing research and book projects.
Episode companions
Show notes expansions, key terms, and suggested viewing/reading to support classroom use and independent study.
Television history essays
Editorial-style analysis grounded in scholarship, with historical context and clear arguments.
Women in media focus
Posts centering women’s labor, authorship, representation, and industrial conditions across eras and genres.
Research & book updates
Progress notes, archival discoveries, conference reflections, and publication announcements.
Editorial approach
Writing that bridges scholarship and listening
Advanced TV Herstory publishes formal, accessible writing that connects television studies to the questions listeners bring to the archive: how industries change, how genres travel, and how women’s work shapes what we watch.
Posts are designed to be citable and teachable: clear claims, careful context, and pathways to further reading—without losing the pleasure of television.
Topics and methods
A rotating snapshot of the kinds of questions the blog returns to—across archives, genres, and production cultures.
