Communication

Courses

  • Media Literacy/Media Education (SL option)
  • Spike Lee and Black Cultural Production
  • Media Analysis
  • Introduction to Television
  • Advanced Television

Publications

  Editor, Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black
  Audiences (Rutgers UP, forthcoming 2012)

  Pimpin' Ain't Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television
  (Routledge UP, 2007)

  Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television
  (Rutgers UP, 2002)

Education

  University of California, Los Angeles
  Ph.D. Film and Television Critical Studies
  1997

  Brooklyn College (CUNY)
  M.F.A. Television Production
  1990

  Clark College (Clark Atlanta University)
  B.A. Mass Communication/Broadcast Management
  1988   

  Hunter College (CUNY)
  Domestic Exchange
  1986-1987

Contact

  Ph:  (504) 862-3036
  Fax:  (504) 862-3040
  Email:  drbess@tulane.edu
  Office:  219 Newcomb Hall, Office C
  Office Hours:  Mondays 2pm - 4:30pm or by appointment.