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Auburn University

Partial Curriculum Vita
Dr. J. Emmett Winn

Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching , College of Liberal Arts

Executive Director of the Southern States Communication Assn.

Associate Professor

College of Liberal Arts

Office of the Dean

2046 Haley Center

Auburn University, AL 36849-5223
Email: winnjoh @ auburn.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Communication, University of South Florida, August, 1999.
  • M.A., Communication, Auburn University, emphasis in Film and Television Studies, August 1991.
  • B.A., Communication, Auburn University, concentration in Mass Communication, June 1990.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, 2001-present: Auburn University, Department of Communication & Journalism.
  • Assistant Professor of Communication, 2000-2001: Auburn University, Department of Communication.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication, 1999-2000: Auburn University, Department of Communication.
  • Mass Communication Instructor, 1997-1999: Auburn University, Department of Communication, Radio/Television/Film.
  • Graduate Teaching Associate, 1995-1997: University of South Florida, Department of Communication.
  • Mass Communication Instructor, 1992-1995: Auburn University, Department of Communication, Radio/Television/Film.
  • Communication Instructor, 1991-1992: Alabama State University, Department of Advancement Studies, Speech Communication faculty.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1990-1991: Auburn University, Department of Communication.

 

BOOKS

  • Winn, J. E. (2007). The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
  • Winn, J. E. & Brinson, S. L. (Eds.). (2005). Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Winn, J. E. (2008). Documenting racism in an agricultural extension film. Film & History, 38 (1), accepted for publication.
  • Winn, J. E. (2006). Jean Rouch. In The encyclopedia of the documentary film (Vol. 3, pp. 1151-1154). New York & London: Routledge
  • Winn, J. E. & Rentz, D. (2006). You got to stay in: Communication norms among players at Winnerland Greyhound Racetrack and the American Dream. The McNeese Review, 44, 35-52.
  • White, T. R. & Winn, J. E. (2006). Tomorrow could bring salvation: Jan Svankmajer’s Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe.  Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 26, 27-38.
  • Brumbeloe, S. J. & Winn, J. E. (2005). WAPI: Entertainment and sports radio broadcasting at an educational radio station in the 1920s.  In J. E. Winn & S. L. Brinson (Eds.), Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting. (pp. 111-136). Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
  • Winn, J. E. (2005). Radio Flyer: The therapeutic rhetoric of child abuse in a social drama film. Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 23, 75-86.
  • Winn, J. E. (2004). Investigating the American Dream in Pretty Woman (1990). Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 19 (Special American Dream Issue), pp. 59-68.
  • Youngblood, J. D. & Winn, J. E. (2004). Shout glory: Competing communication codes experienced by the members of the African American Pentecostal Genuine Deliverance Holiness Church. Journal of Communication, 54 (2), 355-370.
  • Winn, J. E. (2003). Every dream has its price: Personal failure and the American Dream in Wall Street and The Firm. Southern Communication Journal, 68, 307-318.
  • Winn, J. E. (2003). Highly offensive Ferengi: Racial issues and Star Trek’s multicultural Deep Space Nine.  Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 19, 87-100.
  • Sutton, D.L. & Winn, J. E. (2001). "Do we get to win this time?”: POW/MIA rescue genre films and the American monomyth. Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, 24, pp. 25-30.
  • Winn, J. E. (2001). Challenges & compromises in Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 18, 452-465. 
  • Winn, J. E. (2001). Motion pictures. In Encyclopedia of life-support systems. Oxford, England: Eolss Publishers Co Ltd.
  • Winn, J. E. (2000). Moralizing upward mobility: Investigating the myth of class mobility in Working Girl. Southern Communication Journal, 66, 40-51.
  • White, T. R. & Winn, J. E. (1999). Islam, animation and money: The reception of Disney's Aladdin in Southeast Asia. In J. Lent (Ed.), Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning, (pp. 61-76). Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
  • Winn, J. E. (1997). Mad Max, Reaganism, and The Road Warrior. Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 8, 57-75.
  • White, T.R. & Winn, J. E. (1997). Schindler's List in Malaysia: Anti-Semitism or national politics? Asian Cinema, 9, 18-33.
  • Brinson, S. L. & Winn, J. E. (1997). Talk shows' representations of interpersonal conflicts. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 41, 25-39.
  • White, T. R. & Winn, J. E. (1995). Islam, animation and money: The reception of Disney's Aladdin in Southeast Asia. Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 2(3), 54-69.