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| Dr. Michele Byers |
Dept of Sociology & Criminology Publications:
Edited Collections
Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life. Co-edited with David Lavery. Forthcoming from Lexington Books.
Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. Toronto: Sumach Press. 2005. Refereed Journals With Rosalin Kreiger. “From Ugly Duckling to Cool Fashion Icon: Sarah Jessica Parker’s Blonde Ambitions.” Shofar. Forthcoming 2007.
“Material Bodies and Performative Identities: Mona, Neil, and the Promised Land.” Philip Roth Studies. 2006: 102–120. With Rosalin Kreiger. “Beyond Binaries and Condemnation: Opening New Theoretical Spaces in Jewish Television Studies.” Culture, Theory and Critique. 42(2). 2005: 131–145. “Scenes from the Frontier of the Material World: Television Images of Sexuality and Youth.” Studies in Popular Culture. October 2002. “Gender/Sexuality/Desire: Subversion of Difference and Construction of Loss in the Adolescent Drama of My So-Called Life.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 23(3), 1998: 711 – 734.
“Constructing Divas in the Academy: Why the Female Graduate Student Emerges in Prime-Time Television Culture.” Higher Education Perspectives. Vol. 1. 1996/1997: 99 – 118. Invited Book Chapters “I Am (A) Canadien(ne): Canadian Girls and Television Culture.” In Transforming Spaces: Girlhood, Agency & Power, edited by Yasmin Jiwani, Claudia Mitchell and Candis Steenbergen. Montreal: Black Rose Books. 2005: 227–242. With Rosalin Krieger. “Something Old Is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness on The O.C., Arrested Development and Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, edited by Vincent Brook. Rutgers UP. 2006: 277–297. “Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity.” In Between Empires: A Canadian Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Imre Szeman, Gail Faurschou, and Sourayan Mookerjea. Duke UP. Forthcoming.
Chapters in Books “Canadian Idol and the Myth of National Identity.” In Between Reality and Fiction on Canadian Television, edited by Zoë Druick and Patsy Kotsopoulos. Forthcoming from Wilfred Laurier Press. “Education and Entertainment: Degrassi does Degrassi Talks.” In Between Reality and Fiction on Canadian Television, edited by Zoë Druick and Patsy Kotsopoulos. Forthcoming from Wilfred Laurier Press. “Revisiting Teenage Truths: Engaging with Simonetti’s Questions of National Identity and Culture Ten Years Later.” In Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. Toronto: Sumach Press, edited by Michele Byers. 2005: 31–51. With Rebecca Haines. “That White Girl from That Show.” In Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. Toronto: Sumach Press, edited by Michele Byers. Forthcoming 2005: 167–190. “Have Times Changed?: Girl Power and Feminism on Degrassi.” In Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. Toronto: Sumach Press, edited by Michele Byers. 2005: 191–209. “Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style.” In Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture. Edited by Gunilla Holms, Susan Edgerton and Toby Daspit. Routledge, 2005: 191–209. “Race In/Out of the Classroom: Degrassi (Junior High) as Multicultural Context.” In Racism Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context. Edited by Charmaine Nelson and Camille Nelson. Captus Press, 2004: 298-315. “Waiting at the Gate: The New, Postmodern Promised Land.” In Suburban Sprawl: Culture, Theory, and Politics. Edited by Hugh Bartling and Matt Lindstrom. Rowan & Littlefield, 2003: 23-44. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Next Generation of Television.” In Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century. Edited Alison M. Piepmeier and Rory C. Dicker. Northeastern University Press. 2003: 171-87. Encyclopedia Entries “Degrassi.” Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Forthcoming from Greenwood Press 2007. “Bat Mitzvah.” Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Forthcoming from Greenwood Press 2007. “J.A.P.” Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Forthcoming from Greenwood Press 2007. Conference Proceedings
“Not just a Princess: Beyond the JAP in Jewish Girlhood” Conference Summary Report: What Are We Holding in Our Hands Now? Montreal: PowerCamp National/Filles d’Actions. 2004: 63-65. Book Reviews
Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminism. Edited by Lisa Bryn Rundle et al. RFR/DFR, February 2003. Non-Refereed Publications
“I Lost my Wife to Facebook, and Other Myths that Might be True.” FLOW. “Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Life and Times of the CBC.” FLOW. 5(8). 2007. “ Post-CSI TV: The Ecstacies of Dexter.” FLOW. 5(4). 2006. “Degrassi: Media Literacy and Literate Media.” Orbit: OISE/UT’s Magazine for Schools. April 2005. “Creating a Departmental Video Library (2000/01).” Office of Instructional Development Newsletter. Saint Mary’s University. Winter/Spring 2003: 1-2. “Cultural Studies Research Group.” The Times. Saint Mary’s University. 34(3). December 2003: 2, 4. “Creating a Video Archive and Library.” Office of Instructional Development Newsletter. Saint Mary’s University. Fall 2001: 11-12. “Diversity in the Classroom: Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning.” Office of Instructional Development Newsletter. Saint Mary’s University. Fall 2001:4.
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