Lynn Spigel is the

Frances E. Willard Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an Americans, American educator, Temperance movement, temperance reformer, and women's suffrage, women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Wom ...

Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. She has written extensively on numerous topics including post-war culture and popular media. She has also edited numerous anthologies including ''Television after TV'' (Duke University Press, 2004) and ''Feminist TV Criticism'' (McGraw Hill, 2007). She is the editor of the Console-ing Passions book series from

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Du ...

. Spigel was named a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2012 for a project to study the history of

smart home Smart or SMART may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Smart'' (Hey! Say! JUMP album), 2014 * Smart (Hotels.com), former mascot of Hotels.com * ''Smart'' (Sleeper album), 1995 debut album by Sleeper * ''SMart'', a children's television seri ...

s and digital technologies for everyday life.Spigel Wins Guggenheim Fellowship for Project on Modern Living
Northwestern University School of Communication.

Publications

*''TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television'' (University of Chicago Press, 2008, ) *''Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs'' (Duke University Press, 2001, ) *''Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992, )

References

External links

School of Communication, Northwestern University
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