Megan Wood

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Name:
Megan Wood
Title:
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Email:
m-wood@onu.edu
Phone:
419-772-2056
Office:
Performing Arts Center 127
Address:
525 South Main Street, Ada, OH, 45810
Academic Credentials
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gV2cLvvrCpedCeKuhHQjJvU4sNoSOLRu-0jMLOfTcgA/edit
Research Interests
Cultural Studies (practice, pedagogy, history), Media and Technology Studies, Cultural Economy, Critical Corporate Studies, Surveillance Studies, Black Atlantic and Transnational Feminist Theory, U.S. Political and Popular Cultures
Employee degree:

BA, Christopher Newport University

MA, University of South Florida

PHD, Univ of North Carolina Chapel

Biography
Megan Wood is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture within the Department of Art & Communication at Ohio Northern University. She holds a Ph.D. in communication and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Ìý

Megan's research draws on her training inÌýcultural studies, media & technology studies, feminist theory, and political economy. Interested inÌýthe relays between popular and political cultures, her recent projects include studies of melancholy as the dominant mood of theÌýpolitical present, the significance of the "billionaire space race,"Ìý andÌýtheÌýimplications of corporate empowerment for political identity and domains of civic practice in the United States.

Megan's scholarly work has been published in journals includingÌýCultural Studies,Ìý³Ù³ó±ðÌýJournal of Cultural Economy, Lateral, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and in edited collections such asÌýFeminist Surveillance Studies (Duke University Press) and Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond: Critical Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies (Palgrave MacMillan).ÌýShe also writes and speaks regularly on the histories and responsibilities of the practice of cultural studies and on teaching cultural studies, and is actively conspiring with others to build better, accessible spaces for enabling the kinds of transdisciplinary, collaborative work required for effectively facing the difficulties of our political present.

MeganÌýformerly servedÌýas the Reviews and Commentaries editor for the Journal of Cultural Economy, and is now an Associate Editor for the journal. She currently serves as a board member of both the Cultural Studies Association and the international Association for Cultural Studies.Ìý

In addition to her academic work, Megan is also a consultant atÌýVocable Communications.

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Recent Scholarship:Ìý

  • Fisher, Jill, Megan M. Wood, and Torin Monahan. (2021). Speculating on Precarious Income: Finance Cultures and the Risky Strategies of Healthy Volunteers in Clinical Drug Trials. Journal of Cultural Economy 14 (4): 464–484.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2019). On ‘Telling Better Stories’: Lawrence Grossberg and Cultural Studies in the Present. Cultural Studies 33 (1): 19–28.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2019). Conjuncturally Teaching. In Jaafar Aksikas and Sean Andrews (eds.) Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond: Critical Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2018). All in the Family? Journal of Cultural Economy 11 (1): 83-88.
  • Brownlow, Ryan and Megan M. Wood (co-first author). (2017). Not About White Workers: The Perils of Popular Ethnographic Narrative in the Time of Trump. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6 (2): 1–15.

Classes Taught:Ìý

  • CAMS 1301: Presentational Speaking
  • CAMS 2321: Group Dynamics and Team Interaction
  • CAMS 3341: Communication, Gender, & Culture
  • CAMS 4431: Communication Theory
  • CAMS 4381: Communication & Media Studies Senior Thesis

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