Professor Emeritus

Graduate Studies in Media Arts
Film & Television Studies

Caren Deming earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at The University of Michigan. She taught English-Humanities and speech at Edsel Ford High School, Dearborn, Michigan, 1965-1969. She began her full-time university teaching career at San Francisco State University in 1976. From 1980 to 1985, Dr. Deming was Chairperson of the Broadcast Communication Arts Department.

In 1985-1986, she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Radio-Television at The University of Arizona. She was Professor and Department Head, Department of Media Arts from 1986 to 1994.

Notable publications include "Bar Talk: Gender Discourse in Cheers!, co-authored with Mercilee M. Jenkins, in Television Criticism, edited by Leah Vande Berg and Lawrence Wenner; Media in Society: Readings in Mass Communication, co-edited with Samuel L. Becker; "For Television-Centered Television Criticism: Lessons from Feminism" in Communication Yearbook 11; "Hill Street Blues as Narrative" in Critical Studies in Mass Communication; "Miscegenation in Popular Western History and Fiction" in Women in Western Literature, edited by Helen Winter Stauffer and Susan J. Rosowski; "Television and Human Fantasy Life: Implications for the Developing World" in Telecommunications in Transcultural Perspective, edited by Jack Steinbring and Gary Granzberg; "Chasing the Popular Arts Through the Critical Forest" in Journal of Popular Culture, co-authored with Billie Wahlstrom; and "Cultural Analysis: Unmasking the Makings of Oppression" in University of Michigan Papers in Women's Studies, co-authored with Billie Wahlstrom.

Dr. Deming has served as chair of the Mass Communication Division and At-Large Delegate to the Legislative Council of the Speech Communication Association, as well as a national task force developing media literacy standards for K-12 education in the United States. She is on the national Advisory Board of the Council for International Non-Theatrical Events (CINE). She is an active member of the International, National, and Western States Communication Associations. In 1996, she was a delegate to the First International Communication Research Symposium in Moscow, Russia. She has been an Associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press since its founding in 1977. She has served on the editorial boards of Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Western Journal of Communication, and the Wayne State University Press Film and Television Series. She was a member of the Arizona Humanities Council from 1989 to 1995.

Locally, she has served on the Board of Directors of Tucson Community Cable Corporation and the Arizona Media Arts Center.

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