Dayna Chatman
Senior Instructor I
Media and Intersectionality
Email: dchatman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3594
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 147
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Gender, Race, Media, Fandom
Dayna Chatman joined the faculty at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication in Fall 2018. Her research focuses on the intersections of media industries and media audiences in the age of social media. Dr. Chatman’s work draws on feminist theory, critical race theory, and cultural studies approaches to media research.
Prior to joining the faculty at the SOJC, Dr. Chatman was a George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication (2016-2018). She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
At the SOJC, Dr. Chatman advises undergraduate theses for Media Studies students in the SOJC Honors Program and Clark Honors College. She also works with graduate students as a committee member for exams and dissertations. Dr. Chatman is unavailable to advise doctoral students or chair doctoral committees at this time.
Chatman, D. E. (2017). Black Twitter and the politics of viewing Scandal. In Gray, J., Sandvoss, C. Harrington, C. L. (Eds.), Fandom: Identities and communities in a mediated world, second edition. New York: NYU Press.
Chatman, D. E. (2015). Pregnancy, then it’s “back to business”: Beyoncé, black femininity, and the politics of a post-feminist gender regime. Feminist Media Studies, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1036901