Department of English

 

Mandy Elizabeth Moore (she/her) is a PhD candidate working in Media Studies through a humanities lens, with a particular focus on television, fandom, and children’s media. She received her B.A. from Hollins University in 2016 and her M.A. from Kansas State University in 2018, both in English. Her dissertation develops a methodology for studying fan communities using posthumanist/new materialist rhetorical theory–in other words, studying the impacts that nonhuman things (like hashtags and images) have on fandoms. She received a 2022 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship for her dissertation project from UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. Mandy has published in journals like Research on Diversity in Youth Literature and contributed to the first book-length collection of scholarship on the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe (Representation in Steven Universe, edited by John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards). At UF, she has taught courses on film, teen television, children’s media, fandom studies, and posthumanist television. She currently serves as a style editor for the journal ImageTexT.