Academics
Devorah Heitner
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Phone 847-735-6253
E-mail heitner@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
African American Cinema and Media
Television Studies
Documentary Film Children’s Media
Video Art
Activist Media
US Cultural History
Education
PhD, Northwestern University. Department of Radio, Television and Film BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Articles
"Performing Black Power in the ‘Cradle of Liberty:’ Say Brother Envisions New Principles of Blackness in Boston." Television and New Media, forthcoming 2009.
"The Good Side of the Ghetto: The Case of Inside Bedford Stuyvesant," Velvet Light Trap, forthcoming in October 2008.
Book Reviews
Christine Acham, "Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power."
Jumpcut (Fall 2005)
Laurie Ouellette, "Let Them Eat PBS: A Review of Viewers Like You?: How Public Television Failed The People" Framework (Spring 2004).
Arlene Davila, Latino’s Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People. Journal of Communication (September 2003).
Encyclopedia
"Foreign Language Radio in the Midwest" The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Indiana University Press, 2007. P. 945.
Grants and Awards
Alumnae Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2006-2007
American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2005-2006
Graduate Affiliate Award, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities,
Northwestern University, Theme: "African Americans and the Law," 2005-2006
Mellon Graduate Research and Travel Grant, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University, 2004-2005
Graduate Research Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2004-2005
Travel Fellowship, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, 2004-2005
Summer Field Research Grant, Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, 2002
Access Grant/Mentorship Program with Su Friedrich, Film/Video Arts, New York, 1998-1999
Community Arts Program Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 1997, 1998, 1999
Selected Presentations
"Model Cities, Model People: Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, March 2008.
Invited talk: "Black Power TV," African and Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul University, November 16, 2006
"Oral History Research in Media Studies," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, October, 2006.
"Urban Planned and Moynihanned: Televising Black Women’s Liberation," American Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, October 4, 2006
"Television as Development: Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant," International Conference on Feminism and Television, Video, Audio and New Media: Console-ing Passions, Milwaukee, WI, May, 2006.
"Building Black Civic Space in the Black Power Era," Race, Roots and Resistance, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, March, 2006.
"Activism and Public Television," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, BC, March, 2006
"Black Power Television: Reading Say Brother's Radical Pedagogy," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November, 2005.
Panel on Black Popular Culture (Workshop Session) Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, December 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
"Training a Generation of Black Media Workers: The Black Journal Workshop," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November, 2004, Atlanta, GA.
"Gendering the Black Public Sphere: For You...Black Woman," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA. March 2004.
"Jive Talking Muppets: an Investigation of Sesame Street’s Anti-Racist Pedagogy," Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO. May 2002.
"Sunny Days: Performing Whiteness on Sesame Street," Bowling Green State University, Youth Culture and Everyday Life Conference, Bowling Green, OH. February 2002.