Lisa Doris Alexander
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Representations in popular culture
Education
- 2006 Ph.D., American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University Specialization: Critical Studies in Film, Media, and Culture
- 1999 M.A., Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Specializations: History; Film and Television
- 1997 B.A., Political Science, Grinnell College Concentration: Afro-American Studies
Awards and grants
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2014 John Coates Next Generation Award for the article – “But They Don’t Want to Play With the White Players, Right?: Depictions of Segregation and Negro League Baseball in Contemporary Popular Film”
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2013 Robert Peterson Recognition Award for the book – When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime.
News mentions
- Brown like me: Why Disney’s The Little Mermaid is vital
- Reading up on race? Here are more than 30 Michigan authors to check out
Selected publications
Books
- 2021 Homicide: Life on the Street. TV Milestone Series. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press
- 2019 Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press
- 2012 When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight, and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company
Journal articles
- 2019 African American Filmic Artifacts From Body and Soul to Black Panther. The American Historian
- 2016 “Far Beyond the Stars: The Framing of Blackness in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 44.3
- 2014 “Sports History: What’s Next?” Journal of American History 101.1
Book chapters
- 2016 “Andy Murray: From Outsider to Savior and Back Again” with Dan Travis in More than Cricket and Football Ed. Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen S. Smith. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi
- 2015 “I’m the King of the World?: Barry Bonds and the ‘Race’ For The Record,” in Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Essays on Sports, Race, and the Media Ed. Chris Lamb. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (reprint)
- 2013 “‘Raindrops on a Window’”: Race and Sex and the Framing of the Sheryl Swoopes Narrative” in A Locker Room of Her Own: Sport, Gender, and the Construction of Athletic Reputations. Ed. Joel Nathan Rosen and David C. Ogden. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi
Courses taught by Lisa Doris Alexander
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- AFS2010 - African American Culture
- AFS3200 - The African-American Film Experience
- COM3230 - The African-American Film Experience
Fall Term 2024 (current)
- AFS2010 - African American Culture
- AFS4240 - African Americans in Television
- COM4240 - African Americans in Television
Spring-Summer Term 2024
Winter Term 2024
- AFS2010 - African American Culture: Historical and Aesthetic Roots
- AFS3200 - The African-American Film Experience
- COM3230 - The African-American Film Experience
Fall Term 2023
- AFS2010 - African American Culture: Historical and Aesthetic Roots
- AFS4240 - African Americans in Television
- COM4240 - African Americans in Television
Winter Term 2023
- AFS2010 - African American Culture: Historical and Aesthetic Roots
- AFS2245 - Blacks and Sport in the United States
Fall Term 2022
- AFS2010 - African American Culture: Historical and Aesthetic Roots
- AFS4240 - African Americans in Television