Daphne Gershon
About
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: dgershon@fau.edu
Areas of Expertise: Feminist Media Studies, Television Streaming, Textual Analysis, Sex and Sexuality in Popular Culture, Global Media Cultures, Comedy.听
Bio:
Dr. Daphne Gershon is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at 麻豆精品视频. Her research explores how entertainment media shape social norms, power relations, and cultural ideals, especially in relation to gender.
As co-editor of听Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis, her work seeks to develop new and innovative approaches to the study of media texts in an era increasingly defined by audience fragmentation, personalization, and algorithmic recommendation systems. She is particularly interested in television and the changing forms of storytelling and representation emerging in the streaming era.
In examining the changing conventions of media and how entertainment media shape the social world, much of her scholarship focuses on representations of sex, a subject that is often dismissed and overlooked. Through a wide range of studies that include web sex education series in India, narratives of sexless marriage and male hyposexuality in Japan, portrayals of erectile dysfunction in television comedy, and depictions of sexual violence in Pakistani cinema, her scholarship demonstrates both the expansiveness and social significance that depictions of sex possess for media industries and society.
Recent Publications/ Exhibitions/ Performances
Gray, Jonathan and Gershon, Daphne eds. (2026).听 Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis . New York: NYU Press.
Gershon, Daphne. (2026). 鈥淯nder the cover of Blackness: The Racialized Dimensions of Netflix鈥檚 Personalized Cover Art.鈥澨
Television & New Media
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Gershon, Daphne. (2026). 鈥淧utting entertainment education on trial: examining PFI鈥檚 sex education web series Sex Ki Adalat.鈥澨
Feminist Media Histories
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Gershon, Daphne. (2025). 鈥淢inority media for the majority: the Milwaukee Gay/Lesbian Cable Network (1986- 1994)鈥 in听
Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics,听
edited by Annie Sullivan and Lauren Herold. Part of the Peabody Series in Media History from the University of Georgia Press edited by Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson.
Gray, Jonathan and Gershon, Daphne. (2024). 鈥淭he Unsituated Comedy.鈥澨 Journal of Cinema and Media Studies , 64(1), 53-74.听听
Gershon, Daphne. (2024). 鈥淪triking poses of possibility: exploring the transgressive imaginations of the series Pose and its promotional posters鈥 in听
New Queer Television: From Marginalisation to Mainstreamification
, edited by Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday and Dany Girard. Bristol: Intellect.
Gershon, Daphne. (2022). 鈥淢ore than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We鈥檙e in Japan!.鈥澨 International Journal of Cultural Studies , 25(2), 157-173.
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