Dr. Dubrofsky is a visiting assistant professor in the department for 2006-2007 and joins the department full time in August 2007.  Her research focuses on critical studies of communication and feminist media studies with a specialization in TV studies.  Her current projects look at the reality TV phenomena.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Race and Gender in Popular Film and TV
• Reality TV: Social Issues

Graduate course offerings

• Critical Studies of Media

Representative publications

• Dubrofsky, Rachel E.  "'Therapeutics of the Self’: Surveillance in the Service of the Therapeutic.”  Television and New Media, Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 263-284, November 2007.  
  
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E.  "The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem.”  Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 39-56, March 2006.
  
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E.  "Ally McBeal as Postfeminist Icon: the Aestheticizing and Fetishizing of the Independent Working Woman."  Communication Review, Vol. 5, No. 4., p. 265-284, October-December 2002.

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004

M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, York University (Toronto), 1998

B.A., English Literature (Honors), Western Civilization and Culture (Major), Concordia University (Montreal), 1993.