Bill Kirkpatrick: Curriculum Vitae
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Bill Kirkpatrick
Department of Communication
327 Higley Hall
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
(740) 587-8512
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Department of Communication Arts
Major Area: Media and Cultural Studies
Minor Areas: History and Political Science
Degrees: M.A. (May, 1999), Ph.D. (December, 2006)
New York University, Gallatin Division
(interdisciplinary program)
Major Area: Cinema Studies
Minor Area: Journalism
Degree: B.A. (May, 1989)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical-cultural approaches to media history and cultural policy; impacts of popular culture on American public life; theories, practices, and future of citizen-produced media; cultural approaches to popular music; disability and media.
MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
Book Project:
Air Space: Localism in American Thought
and Media Policy to 1941
Aiming to present the first comprehensive treatment of
the political and cultural role of localism in
American thought and early media policy,
this book explores Americans' shifting ideas of
the local and how they impacted both the
shape of the U.S. media system and
Americans' sense of space and place.
Status: This book is currently in the proposal stage
"Localism in American Media, 1920-1934"
Defended: December, 2006
Against the backdrop of the United States coming to terms with modernity, this study explores how regulators, the radio industry, and the public used discourses and structures of "localism" in a range of struggles to shape the media system.
Advisor: Michele Hilmes; Committee: Robert Asen, Michael Curtin, Julie D'Acci, Jack Mitchell
PUBLICATIONS
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Sounds Local: The Competition for Space
and Place in Early U.S. Radio."
Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction. Eds. David Suisman and Susan Strasser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Nekola, Anna and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Cultural Policy in American Music History: Sammy Davis, Jr. vs. Juvenile Delinquency." Journal of the Society for American Music 4:1 (Jan. 2010), 33-58.
Russo, Alexander and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Not Quite 'Beyond' the Terrestrial: Networked Distribution, Media
Convergence, and the Place of the Local in Satellite Radio."
Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures. Eds. Lisa Parks and James Schwoch. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Kirkpatrick, Bill and Jason Mittell. The Communication Arts Guide to Research in Radio, Television, and Film (Departmental Research Primer for Undergraduates). Madison, WI: Primus (McGraw-Hill), 2003.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Swigging, Sampling and Sporting: Encountering Audiences as Cultural Agents." Community Media Review 24:4 (Winter 2001-2002), 17-19.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox" (Book Review). The Velvet Light Trap 46 (Fall 2000), 85-87.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Denison University (Granville, OH):
Media Literacy
Digital Technology and Cultural Change
US Broadcast History and Theory
Global Communication
Mediating Gender and Sexuality
Media Criticism and the Politics of Aesthetics
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor):
Propaganda & Persuasion in the Mass Media
Theories of the Public Sphere
University of Wisconsin (Madison):
Survey of Radio, Television, and Film
Introduction to Speech Composition
Edgewood College (Madison):
Introduction to Communication Studies
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Radio, Visuality, and Indecency"
Broadcast Education Association
Las Vegas, Apr., 2010
"Popular Radio Regulation Before 1927"
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Los Angeles, Mar., 2010
"Visual Culture in/and Radio Studies, or, The Pictures that
Were Better on the Radio Were Pictures"
The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum
Toronto, July, 2009
"Disability, Citizenship, and Cultural Policy:
Radio and the Discourseof the 'Shut-In,' 1920-1940."
Cultural Studies Association
Kansas City, Apr., 2009
Panel Discussion: "The Digital Conversion."
Flow Conference
Austin, Oct., 2008
"Sammy Davis, Jr. vs. Juvenile Delinquency:
Rock, Race, and the Record Industry."
2008 Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project:
"Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change,"
Seattle, Apr., 2008
(Co-authored with Anna Nekola)
"Early Local Radio and the Reorganization of Space in
Modern America, 1920-1934."
The Hagley Center:
"Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction"
Wilmington, DE, Nov. 2007
"Radio and Publicness" (Panel Chair).
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Chicago, Mar. 2007
"Communications Technology and Democracy:
Localism and Nationalism
at the Birth of American Broadcasting."
The Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian Institution:
"Inventing America: The Interplay of Technology and
Democracy in Shaping American Identity"
Charlottesville, VA, Nov. 2006
"The Look of Your Channel:
How Can Media Theory Help Practitioners?"
Wisconsin Association of PEG Channels
Madison, WI, May 2006
"Sound as Storytelling: Teaching Television Sound."
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Atlanta, Mar. 2004
"The Strange Case of the Novelty Single."
The International Association for the Study
of Popular Music,
Los Angeles, Sept. 2003
"What's Local about Local Media?"
The Alliance for Community Media National Conference,
Houston, July 2002
"Re-thinking 'Access': Cultural Barriers to
Public Access Television" (White Paper).
The Alliance for Community Media National Conference,
"Educational, Public, Alternative, Community:
Paradigms for Non-Commercial Media."
The Society for Cinema Studies
Washington, DC, May 2001
"Bringing Blue Skies Down to Earth:
Negotiating for Public Access."
Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Orono, ME, June, 2000
MEDIA-RELATED WORK AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Peer Reviewer, Technology and Culture
(2009-present)
Peer Reviewer, New Media and Society
(2007-present)
Producer, Here On Earth (radio program on global politics and cultural affairs) Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison, WI (2003-2005)
Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap (1997-2004)
Coordinating Co-Editor (2001-2003)
Member, Broadband Telecommunications Regulatory Board
(municipal cable board), Madison, WI (2000-2007)
Member, Editorial Board, The Community Media Review (2001-2003)
Miscellaneous volunteer activities with
WYOU Public Access Television and
WORT Community Radio, Madison, WI (1998-2007)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Swissair: Crew Disposition (troubleshooter for daily airline operations), Zurich, Switzerland (1989-1997)
Audio Magazine: Editorial Assistant, New York, NY (1985-1989)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
College of Letters and Sciences Teaching Fellowship 2004
Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship 2004
Department Nominee, Letters and Sciences
Innovative Teaching Award 2003
Communication Arts Graduate Teaching Award 2002
Ruth McCarty Dissertation Scholarship 2002
Fellowship to the American Research Center
in Cairo, Egypt 1999
(Two-month graduate-level program of study and research
organized through Duke University)
The Ruth McCarty Early Achievement Award,
University of Wisconsin 1998
Humanities Enhanced University Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin 1997 - 2001
William F. Vilas Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin 1997 - 1998