Melissa Click

Melissa Click

Contacts:
University of Missouri
108 Switzler Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
573.884.4694 / Fax: [phone]
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., February 2009 Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dissertation: It’s ‘a good thing’: The commodification of femininity, affluence and whiteness in the Martha Stewart phenomenon.
Certificate, May 2000 Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
M.A., February 2000 Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Thesis: Who dunnit?: The utility of theorizing (in)visible identities in feminist action.
B.B.A., December 1993 Retail Marketing and Women’s Studies, James Madison University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Media Audiences and Fans * Television Criticism * Popular Culture * Gender & Sexuality

APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor University of Missouri, Columbia (Fall 2008-present) Course Director of COMM 1200: Public Speaking
Resident Instructor University of Missouri, Columbia (Fall 2005-Summer 2008)
Visiting Instructor University of Missouri, Columbia (Fall 2003-Spring 2005)
Teaching Associate University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Fall 1995-Winter 2002)
Research Assistant University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Assistant to Dr. Michael Morgan. Fall 1997, Spring 1998

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles:
Click, M. A., Lee, H., & Holladay, H. (2013). Making monsters: Lady Gaga, fan identification, and social media. Popular Music & Society, 6 (3), 360-379.

Aubrey, J. S., Behm-Morawitz, E., & Click, M. A. (2010). The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series. Transformative Works & Culture, 5 . Available at: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/216/184

Click, M. A., & Ridberg, R. (2010). Saving food: Finding the politics of the everyday in food preservation. Environmental Communication, 4, 301-317.

Aubrey, J. S., Click, M. A., Dougherty, D. S., Fine, M. A., Kramer, M. W., Meisenbach, R. J., Olson, L. N., & Smythe, M. J. (2008). “We do babies!”: The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of pregnancy and parenting in the academy. Women’s Studies in Communication, 31, 186-195.

Click, M. & Kramer, M. W. (2007). Reflections on a century of living: Gendered differences in popular songs. Popular Communication, 5, 241-262.

Edited Volume:
Click, M. A., Aubrey, J. S., and Behm-Morawitz, E. (Eds.). (2010). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and the vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang.

Book Chapters:
Click, M. A. (accepted). Fifty Shades of postfeminism: Contextualizing readers’ reflections on the erotic romance series. In E. Levine (ed.) Feeling Feminine: Popular Culture for Women in the Early 21st Century.

Click, M. A. , Aubrey, J.S., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (2010). Introduction. In M. A. Click, J. S. Aubrey & E. Behm-Morawitz (Eds). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and the vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang. 1-17.

Behm-Morawitz, E., Click, M. A., & Aubrey, J. S. (2010). Relating to Twilight: Fans’ Responses to Love and Romance in the Vampire Franchise.” In M. A. Click, J. S. Aubrey & E. Behm-Morawitz (Eds). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and the vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang. 137-154.

Aubrey, J. S., Walus, S., & Click, M. A. (2010). “Twilight and the Production of the 21st Century Teen Idol.” In M. A. Click, J. S. Aubrey & E. Behm-Morawitz (Eds). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang. 225-242.

Click, M. A. (2007). Untidy: Fan response to the soiling of Martha Stewart’s spotless image. In J. Gray, C. Sandvoss, & C. L. Harrington (Eds.), Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. New York: New York University Press. 301-315.

Book Reviews:
Click, M. A. (2013). [Review of Genre, reception, and adaptation in the “Twilight” series] 24 (2), in press.
Click, M. A. (2013). [Review of the book Spreadable Media]. Transformative Works & Culture, 14 Available at: in press.
Click, M. A. (2000). Stella Bruzzi’s Undressing Cinema [Review of the book Undressing Cinema]. Film Quarterly, 53 (4), 67-68.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Click, M. A., Holladay, H. W., Lee, H., & Kristiansen, L. J. (revised and resubmitted). “Let's Hug It
Out, Bitch”: Audience response to hegemonic masculinity in Entourage. Television & New Media

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Walus, S. & Click, M. A. (preparing for submission) “I can’t think of a more unlikely rock star than me”: Exploring “Averageness” in the myth of rock and roll.
Click, M. A. (edited volume, preparing for submission) Dislike, Hate, and Anti-Fandom in the Digital Age.
Click, M. A., Holladay, H. W., Behm-Morawitz, E., & Aubrey, J. S. (preparing for submission) Hating Twilight: Anti-fans’ responses to the vampire franchise and its fans.
Lee, H., Holladay, H. W., & Click, M.A. (preparing for submission) Social media, activism, and Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters.
Click, M. A., Aubrey, J. S., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (preparing for submission) Understanding teen girls’ attraction to Twilight.
Click, M. A. (book manuscript, preparing for proposal submission) Good Things: The commodification of femininity, affluence and whiteness in the Martha Stewart phenomenon.
Click, M. A. (analyzing data) The trouble with Thomas: A closer look at the popular children’s Series.
Click, M. A., & Edgar, A. N. (analyzing data) Ancestry and American Identity: Exploring the Messages of NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"

GRANTS
Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support travel to the International Communication Association in London, England. May 2013
Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Research and Creative Activities Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support research on readers’ reactions to the messages in the Fifty Shades of Grey book series. April 2013
Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support research on readers’ reactions to the messages in the Fifty Shades of Grey book series. April 2013
Center for Arts and Humanities Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support travel to the annual conference of the Society for Cinema in Media Studies in Chicago, IL. March 2013
Research Board Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support continued research for Good Things manuscript. May 2010
A&S Alumni Organization Faculty Incentive Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support initial research on the PBS children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine. February 2010
Center for Arts and Humanities Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to facilitate the creation of an index for Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and the vampire franchise (Peter Lang, 2010). December 2009
Center for Arts and Humanities Grant, University of Missouri. Awarded to support travel to attend TwiCon in Dallas, TX for study of Twilight fans. July 2009

HONORS & AWARDS
Advisor of the Year Award from Association of Communication Graduate Students of the University of Missouri. May 2013
Outstanding Mentor Award from Association of Communication Graduate Students of the University of Missouri. May 2011
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of Missouri. May 2010
Outstanding Professor, from Intercollegiate Communication Organization (iCOM) of the University of Missouri. April 2007
Purple Chalk Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for teaching excellence at the University of Missouri. February 2007
Nominated for an Excellence in Education Award from Student Affairs at the University of Missouri. Spring 2006

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Click, M. A. (2013, June). Twitards and Tyler’s Van: Anti-Fans, Twilight, and textuality. Paper presented at the International Communication Association in London, England.
Click, M. A. (2013, March). Making Monsters: Lady Gaga, social media, and fan culture. Paper
presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Chicago, IL.
Click, M. A. (2012, November). Twitards and Tyler’s Van: Anti-fans, Twilight, and textuality.
Paper presented at Flow: A Critical Form on Television and Media, Austin, TX.
Click, M. A. (2012, November). Dwindling domestication: Tracing the changes in feminized
daytime television through Martha Stewart Living. Paper presented at the American Studies
Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Click, M. A. (2012, July). Work, Study and Scholarship as an Academic Parent. Panel participant at
Console-ing Passions, the International Conference of Feminism and Television, Video, New Media
and Audio, Boston, Massachusetts.
Click, M. A. (2012, May). New Directions in Popular Communication Research. Panel participant
at the International Communication Association, Phoenix, Arizona.
Click, M. A. (2012, April). Food realities: Food and individual responsibility in US reality TV.
Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, Massachusetts.
Click, M. A. (2012, April). Hate is a strong word: Disciplinarity and distaste. Workshop participant
at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, Massachusetts.
Click, M. A. (2011, September). Taking a bite out of the Twilight Fandom: Exploring fans' active
and passive responses to the vampire franchise. Paper presented at the Reception Studies Society
Conference, Maryville, Missouri.
Click, M. A. (2011, April). Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies. Workshop participant at the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Click, M. A. (2010, March). Collaboration, Mentorship, Promotion: Women Mobilizing the Past &
Future of SCMS. Workshop leader at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Los
Angeles, California.
Aubrey, J. S., Behm-Morawitz, E. & Click M. (2009, November). “Damn it! Why don’t you
glitter?” An audience analysis of Twilight Moms’ readings of the Twilight Series. Paper presented
at the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Click, M. A. (2009, April). Gender and media scholars' use of blogs. Paper presented at the Cultural
Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri.
Olson, L. Click, M. A. & Baiocchi, L. (2008, November). Researching the unconventional: Tales
from the field, the office, and the dinner table. Paper presented at the National Communication
Association, San Diego, California.
Click, M. A. (2008, October). Asserting feminist perspectives in the blogosphere. Paper presented
at Flow: A Critical Form on Television and Media, Austin, TX.
Click, M. A. (2008, May). Putting Martha Stewart back in Martha Stewart Living: How The
Martha Stewart Newsletter replaces the magazine’s missing ingredient. Paper presented at the
International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Missouri (2003-present)
Undergraduate Courses:
The Fall Television Schedule (HONORS 1030H)
Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication (COMM 3636)
Television Criticism (COMM 4618)
Visual Literacy (COMM 4975)
New Technologies and Communication (COMM 4638)

Graduate Courses:
Television Criticism (COMM 7618)
New Technologies and Communication (COMM 7638)
Intro to Graduate Studies (COMM 8110).
Seminar in Television Criticism (COMM 8150)
Topics in Mass Communication (COMM 9530)
Senior Project (COMM 4974)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1995-2002)
Cultural Codes in Communication (COMM 312)
Social Impact of Mass Media (COMM 226)
Social Impact of Mass Media for Talent Advancement Programs/Seminar
( COMM 226s/192s)
Independent Instructor of COMM: Processes of Communication for Talent
Advancement Programs/Seminar (150s/191s)
Writing About Communication (COMM 375)
Public Speaking (COMM 260)
Processes of Communication (COMM 150)
Media Programming and Institutions (COMM 297G)

ADVISING
Graduated:
Stephen Price (PhD, April 2011)
Scott Walus (PhD, May 2013)
Current Advisees:
Holly Willson Holladay (PhD, May 2014)
Hyunji Lee (PhD, May 2014)
Amanda Edgar (PhD, May 2015)
Nettie Brock (PhD, May 2017)
Committees Completed:
Lars J. Kristiansen (Ph.D., December 2012)
Sacheen Mobley (PhD, August 2010)
Siobhan Smith (PhD, December 2010)
William Force (PhD, Sociology, May 2011)
Taryn Wood (MA, Journalism, May 2010)
Anne Cicero (MA, Journalism, December 2009)
Current Committees:
Hillary Pennell (PhD, May 2014)
Hayley Cole (Ph.D., May 2014)
Sarah Turner McGowan (Ph.D., May 2015)
Brandon Miller (Ph.D., May 2016)
Jennifer Lewallen (Ph.D., May 2016)
Cristin Compton (Ph.D., May 2016)

SERVICE
Department:
Committee Member, University of Missouri, Department of Communication Faculty Awards Committee (2012-present)
Committee Member, University of Missouri, Department of Communication On-Line Courses Advisory Board (2012-present)
Committee Member, University of Missouri, Department of Communication Research Lab Committee (2011-present)
Committee Member, University of Missouri, Department of Communication Faculty/Alumni Grants Committee (2011-2012)
Committee Member, University of Missouri, Department of Communication Graduate Admissions Committee (2008-2009; 2010-2012).

University:
Student Publications Committee (Sept 2013-August 2016)
Disability Services Advisory Group, University of Missouri (2012-present)
Arts and Sciences Status of Women Committee, University of Missouri (2006-present)
Faculty Affiliate of Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Missouri (2005-present)
Committee on Student Organizations, Government, and Activities, University of Missouri (2011- 2012)

Professional:
Vice-Chair of the International Communication Association’s Popular Communication Division (July 2013- )
Organizing Committee Chair for Console-ing Passions (April 2014)
Editorial Board, Transformative Works & Cultures
Member, Awards Committee for Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (2011-present)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Communication
Association International Communication Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Cultural Studies Association
American Studies Association