PRESENTATIONS

Jennifer Gillan’s current areas of research are the U.S. television and film industries and Media Industry Convergence, with specific focus on content-promotion hybrids. These include film trailers, the Disneyland TV series, Disney Channel special programming, Mad-vertising for AMC’s Mad Men, the Ricky Nelson videos on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, and various new media television strategies for engaging audiences.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Gillan, J. L. (2016). "Disney and American Culture." Presented at the Phi Alpha Theta's National History Honor Society Biennial Convention, Orlando, FL. 

Gillan, J. L. (2015). "From Sony to Shout! Factory: Distributing Classic TV on DVD." Presented at the University of Worcester (UK)'s Home Media Renaissance: Distributors, Discs, & Disciples, Worcester, UK. 

Gillan, J. L. (2015). "Creative Differences: Set Design, Creative Control, & Exhibition in David Lynch and Bryan Fuller." Presented at the University of Salford (UK)'s The State of Serial TV Conference: TwinPeaks @25, BBC's Media City, UK.. 

Gillan, J. L. (2014). "Multitasking Paratexts: The Emergence of New Industry Sectors & Hybrid Forms." Presented at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA. 

Gillan, J. L. (2013). "Sustainable Television." Presented at the Free University, Berlin's Collaborative Research Centre , Berlin, Germany . 

Gillan, J. L. (2013). "Following Television." Presented at the University of Regensburg and Utrecht University 's Das Ist Fersehen! , Regensburg, Germany. 

Gillan, J. L. (2013). "Short-form and Short-term Brandcasting: 1950s and Now." Presented at the University of Bologna's Media Mutations; Ephemeral Media, Bologna, Italy. 

Gillan, J. L. (2013). "Must-Click TV." Presented at the Collaborative Research Centre, Free University, Berlin's Seminar, Berlin, Germany . 

Gillan, J. L. (2012). "Television's Friend Economy: The Value of Social Interactivity at Disney-ABC Television." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA. 

Gillan, J. L. (2011). ""Sync in Progress: Disney/ABC Transmedia Marketing and Audience Address""." Presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MiT7: Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms, Cambridge, Ma. 

Gillan, J. L. (2011). "Protect This Mouse! Company Voice Advertising on Disney and NBC." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans. 

Gillan, J. L. (2010). "The State of U.S. Network Television." Presented at the University of Texas, Austin's Dept. of Radio and Television's FLOW-TV Conference, Austin, Texas. 

Gillan, J. L. (2010). "The Global Circulation of U.S. Television: Flow Meets Global Flows." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, CA. 

Gillan, J. L. (2009). "Representing NBC's Television City: Media Conglomeration Meets Art Deco New York." Presented at the European Television Studies Television Cities, University College, Dublin, Ireland. 

Gillan, J. L. (2008). "Flow 2.0 Roundtable Panelist." Presented at the Flow 2.0, Austin, TX. 

Gillan, J. L. (2008). "The TV Franchise in the Website Windows: The Architecture of Network TV Programming in the Media Conglomerate Era." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA. 

Gillan, J. L. (2008). "Must-Click TV: New Media Practices, Metrics, and Intermedial Strategies of US Networks." Presented at the Television Without Borders: Global TV Conference, Reading, UK. 

Gillan, J. L. (2007). "Hybrid TV: Overflow from Netlets to Networks." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago. 

Gillan, J. L., Miller, T., Spigel, L., Becker, R. (2006). ""The Great American Makeover" Panel." Presented at the American Studies Association, Oakland, CA. 

Gillan, J. L., Ponte, L. (2006). "Gender Performance Over Job Performance?" Presented at the Duke University Law School, Makeup Identity Performance and Discrimmination Symposium, Duke University Law School. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (2006). "Featured Reader and Presenter--Creative Non-Fiction Writer and Anthology Editor." 

Gillan, J. L. (2006). "Support Our Troops, Docusoap Style." Presented at the Film & History League Conference, Dallas, TX. 

Gillan, J. L. (2006). "National Trauma and Recovery in Extreme Makeover Home Edition." Presented at the Literature & Film Conference, Tallahassee, FL. 

Gillan, J. L. (2006). "Still Living in Sitcom Nation? Literary & Cultural Representations of Television Flow" Presented at the MELUS: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Boca Raton, FL. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (2003). "Interview on WPAT-New York (on all 3 anthologies: Growing Up Ethnic in America, Identity Lessons, and Unsettling America)." 

Gillan, J. L. (2003). "From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Development of the Reality (Star) Sitcom." Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis. 

Gillan, J. L. (2003). "The Filipino Rita Hayworth: Imported and Indigenous Homeplaces." Presented at the The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US, Boca Raton, Florida. 

Gillan, J. L. (2002). "The Sopranos in Pleasantville: Responses to TVLand's Nostalgic Family Marathons." Presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Denver. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (2002). "Keynote Address: Exploring Ethnic Diversity Through Literature." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh/ Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center Conference, University of Pittsburgh. 

Gillan, J. L. (2001). "Reading & Resistance in American Literature (Teaching Multi Ethnic Literatures Panel)." Presented at the Modern Language Association, New Orleans. 

Gillan, J. L. (2001). "Do the Andersons Know Best? Are the Hollisters So Happy? The Ideal Family and the Ethnic American Reader" Presented at theNortheast Popular Culture Association, New Haven. 

Gillan, J. L. (2001). "All That The Man in The Gray Flannel Suit Allows: Spectatorship and the Unsuitable American in 50s Film." Presented at theSociety for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (2000). "Featured Guest, Jersey's Talkin' with host Lee Leonard on TV-12, New Jersey. An interview about Growing Up Ethnic in America and Identity Lessons." 

Gillan, J. L. (2000). "Identity as Desire (Casa Italiana Writer's Rountable, Maria Laurino's Were You Always an Italian)." 

Gillan, J. L. (2000). "White City, Cultural Mask: Monolithic Fairs and Multifaceted Identification in Maso's Ghost Dance." Presented at the The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, New Orleans. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (2000). "Voice of America radio interview about Growing Up Ethnic in America and Identity Lessons." 

Gillan, J. L. (1999). "Broad Shouldered Blueprints for Cooperative Cities: Wright's and Gilman's Utopias." Presented at the A Millennium of Utopias Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (1999). "Identity Lessons: Reinventing the Multicultural Anthology (Invited Author Presentation)." Presented at the NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English, Denver. 

Gillan, J. L. (1999). "If we forgive our fathers what is left? Traumas of Citizenship and Spectatorship in Alexie and Morrison" Presented at the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Nashville. 

Gillan, J. L. (1997). "Border Perceptions: Reading U.S. Intervention in Roosevelt and Hagedorn." Presented at the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado. 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (1994). "Discussion on Inside New Jersey, PBS, about Unsettling America and American Culture." 

Gillan, J. L., Gillan, M. M. (1994). "Interview on State of the Arts, PBS-13, about Unsettling America and Contemporary American Poetry."