Title: Associate Professor and Chair

Department: Communication Studies, 213F Calhoun

Contact Information:

VU Box # 351505-B
Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 37235-1505

Phone: 615.343.1346 or 615-322-2307
Fax: 615.343.7918
bonnie.j.dow@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees:
• B.A. Baylor University, 1985
• M.A. University of Kansas, 1987
• PhD. University of Minnesota, 1990

Bio:

Bonnie J. Dow is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Studies and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women’s Movement Since 1970 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), and the co-editor (with Julia T. Wood) of The Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication (2006). She is also a co-editor of The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th –19th Centuries (Aunt Lute Books, 2004). Dow’s research interests include the rhetoric and representation of the first and second waves of feminism in the United States, and her current book project is tentatively titled Framing Feminism: Television News, Women’s Liberation, and 1970.

» CV is available here.