KATHLEEN COLLINS is an experienced author and researcher who has studied and written about television, media history and popular culture. Her work has appeared in the periodicals Critical Studies in Television, FlowTV, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Library Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Booknotes Quarterly and in the anthology Secrets & Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women’s Friendships (Seal Press: 2004). She has a Master’s degree in journalism with a specialization in cultural reporting and criticism from New York University and a Master’s degree in library science from Long Island University. For almost a decade she worked as an editorial researcher for a variety of publications including Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal and National Law Journal. She is now a librarian at John Jay College and lives in Manhattan.

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Also by the author:

TV Cooking Shows: The Evolution of a Genre
http://flowtv.org/?p=1316

Compromising Positions

http://bitchmagazine.org/article/compromising-positions

Suburban Blight

http://bitchmagazine.org/article/suburban-blight