beck krefting
PROFESSOR of american studies

Is Professor of the American Studies Department, affiliate faculty for Gender Studies, IGR, and Media and Film Studies. Her research specializations are feminist comedy studies; studies of visual and popular culture; preppers and post-apocalyptic cultural texts; and pedagogical studies. Most recently she published two articles on Hannah Gadsby's stand-up special Nanette, one in Studies in American Humor Journal and another in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She teaches courses fueled by her own scholarship like: Disorderly Women; A Humorous (Dis)Course; Black Feminist Thoughts, and Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature. Other course topics include: American foodways, human dilemmas, contemporary American cultures, critical whiteness, and diversity in the United States.
 
You can learn more about her research and teaching here and you can spot her walking around campus with her side-kick, Eli.