Blake Beaver

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow

Member Of:
  • Writing and Communication Program
Email Address: bbeaver6@gatech.edu

Overview

Blake Karsten Beaver is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Blake received his Ph.D. from the Literature program at Duke University in 2024. Broadly speaking, Blake's research and teaching focus on 20th- and 21st-century American television, film, and literature, as well as the intermedial relationships between them. In his scholarship, Blake examines how these media stage broader cultural perceptions of and social attitudes toward technology, the family, advertising, and aesthetics. 

Education:
  • PhD, Literature, Duke University
  • MA, Humanities, The University of Chicago
  • AB, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Advertising Studies
  • Critical Theory And Cultural Studies
  • Film, Television, And Literary Genres
  • Film, Television, And New Media
  • Gender And Sexuality Studies
  • Media Theory, History, And Criticism
  • Post-1945 American Literature And Culture

Courses

  • ENGL-1101: English Composition I

Publications