You can view my interactive CV and published pieces on Research Gate and Academia.
Selected Publications:
Praise for Teen TV:
“Stefania Marghitu has written the book on the evolution of an often overlooked yet fiercely beloved TV genre, teen television. Teen TV provides a rich and insightful chronological history of the genre from Baby Boomer teen TV to the teen TV of Gen Z by mixing textual, cultural and industrial analysis intersped with illuminating interviews with key producers of the genre. A must read for everyone who’s watched TV as a teenager.”
-Gry C. Rustad, Associate Professor, University of Bergen
“In Teen TV Stefania Marghitu anchors engaging and accessible genre analysis not to decades but rather to generations. By accentuating generational specificities, cross-generational conflicts, and demographic shifts, Marghitu invites us to consider how different youth cultures are cultivated and chased by the corporate television complex. Attentive to key creatives, series, and episodes, Teen TV crafts a sweeping and swift journey through a television genre that is always on the verge of stirring up a moral panic.”
-Deborah L. Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Boston University
Author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry
“Broad City and Insecure’s Millenial Showrunners: From Indie Web Series to Cable and Streaming Crossovers,” Feminist Media Studies, Commentary and Criticism: Independent Women from Film to TV, edited by Safiya Noble and Melanie Kennedy, Vol. 19, No. 7, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1667075
“‘It’s just art’: auteur apologism in the post-Weinstein era,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol.18, No.3, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1456158
“Feminist Online Responses Against the U.S. Alt-right: Using The Handmaid’s Tale as a Symbol and Catalyst of Resistance,”Stefania Marghitu and Kelsey Moore Johnson,
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 2018, Pages 183–185. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcx008
“But Seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl’: The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless,’” Refocus on Amy Heckerling, Second Author: Lindsey Alexander, Eds. Frances Smith and Timothy Shary, Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
“The Business of Cause Marketing: A Conversation with Judi Ketcik,” The Spectator, Performing Labor in the Media Industries issue, with Eleanor Huntington, Volume 35, No. 2, Fall 2015, 65-69.
“Body Talk: Reconsidering the Post-Feminist Discourse and Critical Reception of Lena Dunham’s Girls,” Gender Forum, Second Author: Conrad Ng, Issue 45, October 2013.
“The Romanian New Wave: Witnessing Everyday Life in the Ceausescu Era and Understanding Post-Communist Dilemmas,” The UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies, Spring 2012.
Stefania Marghitu 