Jenn Brandt, Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Chair
Department: Women’s Studies
Email: jbrandt@csudh.edu
Phone: (310) 243-3564
Contact Preference: Email
Areas of Expertise
Women’s Studies/Contemporary Women’s Issues, Feminist History, Popular Culture (TV, Film, Social Media), Contemporary Literature, Literature of 9/11
Professional Background
Dr. Brandt’s research explores the relationship between contemporary narratives of identity and institutional structures of inequality. In examining narrative’s role in the maintenance and critique of ideology, her goal is to bring greater understanding to the ways individuals use stories—literary, cultural, digital, and visual—to make sense of the self in an increasingly globalized world. She is particularly interested in the ways in which politics shape and reflect contemporary culture.
Dr. Brandt is the co-author of An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power.
Education
Ph.D., English/Women’s Studies, University of Rhode Island
M.A., Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
B.A., English, Drew University
Related News Stories
Women’s Studies Grants First Degrees, CSUDH Campus News Center, 2021
Exhibition Explores ‘100 Years of the Women’s Vote’, CSUDH Campus News Center, 2020
