Faculty Expertise
Throughout your time at Washington College, you will work with faculty in classes, lab and field work, internships, and more. Faculty serve as teachers and mentors, and as advisors for your Senior Capstone Experience (SCE). Explore the research interests of our faculty below.
Communication and Media Studies Faculty
Meghan Grosse
Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies
Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies
Meghan Grosse
Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies
Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies
Areas of Expertise
New media, media history, and critical media theory
Research
Currently, my primary research looks at the history of the 1990s internet, the Clinton administration policies that defined internet governance of that era, and the ways in which this policy was exported and understood internationally.
Stephanie Brown
Assistant Professor in Communication and Media Studies
Stephanie Brown
Assistant Professor in Communication and Media Studies
Areas of Expertise
Gender, power, popular culture, emerging media, the comedy industry
Research
My research tends to combine gender, power, popular culture, emerging media, and the comedy industries. My current book project explores identity, power, and labor in stand-up comedy as a media industry. Other ongoing projects include theorizing the political aesthetic of humor on TikTok, live comedy podcasting as an archive of marginalized voices, and the desktop documentary's potential to explore pop culture and interpersonal relationships and community building.