Melissa Lenos

Melissa Lenos is Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement for the Humanities. Her B.A. in English and M.A. in English, Critical and Cultural Studies are from the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. in Mass Media and Communication is from Temple University. Melissa's primary research areas are narratology and media pedagogy; her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, In Media Res, and Antenna. She is co-author (with Michael Ryan) of An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film and (with Kevin L. Ferguson) of Generation X: The Popular Culture that Defined the MTV Generation, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, as well as co-editor of Televising True Crime: The True Crime Genre in the Digital Age, forthcoming from Routledge.