Viveca Greene

 

Biography
Viveca Greene, assistant professor of media studies, holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (communication). In 2003, Viveca received UMass/Amherst's highest teaching honor: The Distinguished Teaching Award. She is co-editor (with Ted Gournelos) of A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) and her work has appeared in The Nation and In Media Res. Her most recent article (co-authored with Raúl Pérez),"Debating Rape Jokes vs. Rape Culture: Framing and counter-framing misogynistic comedy," appears in the January 2016 issue of Social Semiotics. Viveca teaches courses in consumer culture, popular culture, audience research, and media studies. Her research explores how humor, irony and satire both challenge and uphold systems of power.

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Education

 * Ph.D. University of Massachusetts/Amherst: Department of Communication Feb 2012
 * Ed.M., Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA. June 1993
 * B.A., Politics, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA. June 1990

Courses

 * Speaking the Unspoken: Media Irony and Cultural Politics
 * Audience Research & Media Studies
 * Critical Media Studies: Irony, Crisis and Political Culture
 * Introduction to Cultural Studies
 * Reading &amp; Writing Analyses of Popular Culture
 * History and Politics of Consumer Culture
 * Politics, News and Irony
 * Ideology, Agency and Irony

Online Work

 * "Introduction: Popular Culture and Post-9/11 Politics" (with Ted Gournelos). A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America. Univ Press of Mississippi, 2011.http://www.amazon.com/Decade-Dark-Humor-America-ebook/dp/B005EEQID0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313589488&amp;sr=1-1#reader_B005EEQID0
 * "'Do the Right Thing': Still a Racial Rorschach at 20" (with Chris Tinson). The Nation, August 18, 2009. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/greene_tinson
 * "Shirley, You Can't Be Serious: David Zucker's Praxis of Evil." In Media Res, January 2008

Community Involvement
Prior to returning to academia, Viveca worked for a range of non-profit organizations that focused on media issues: The Center for Media Literacy, The Institute for Alternative Journalism/Alternet, and Children Now. For each of these organizations she organized large events that brought together media producers, activists and scholars.

Nonprofit groups she currently supports include the Media Education Foundation, The Free Press, WITNESS, The Enviornmental Working Group, and the National Priorities Project.

Additional Information
Viveca is an invited (peer) reviewer for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Television and New Media.