Dr. Dubrofsky was a visiting assistant professor in the department for 2006-2007 and joined the department full time in August 2007. Her research focuses on critical/cultural studies of communication and feminist media studies with a specialization in TV studies and cyberculture. Her current projects look at the reality TV phenomena and at online social networking sites.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Race and Gender in Popular Film and TV
• Special Topics in Media Analysis: Reality TV
• Analyzing Culture & Media

Graduate course offerings

• Critical Studies of Media
• Critical Methods

Representative publications

• Dubrofsky, Rachel E. (2009). “Fallen Women on Reality TV: A Pornography of Emotion.” Feminist Media Studies, 9(3).
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E. & Antoine Hardy. (2008). “Performing Race in Flavor of Love and The Bachelor.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(4).
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E. (2007). "'Therapeutics of the Self’: Surveillance in the Service of the Therapeutic.”  Television and New Media, 8(4).  
  
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E. (2006). "The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem.”  Critical Studies in Media Communication, 23(1).
  
• Dubrofsky, Rachel E. (2002) "Ally McBeal as Postfeminist Icon: the Aestheticizing and Fetishizing of the Independent Working Woman."  Communication Review, 5(4).

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005

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

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