Louisa Ellen Stein, Associate Professor

Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College

[email protected]

Education

• Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, 2006. Dissertation: “‘A Transcending Genre Kind of Thing’: Teen/Fantasy TV and Online Audience Culture.” Chair: Anna McCarthy.
• M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, 2000.
• B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998.

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College, 2016–present.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College, 2010–2016.
• Assistant Professor, School of Theatre, Television and Film, San Diego State University; Head of Critical Studies, 2006–2010.
• Adjunct Instructor, Department of Film and Media, Hunter College, 2005–2006.
• Adjunct Instructor, Department of Media Studies, Queens College, 2003–2005.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, 2000–2002.

Books

Single-Authored Book

• Stein, Louisa. 2015. Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Edited Books and Special Issues

• Stein, Louisa Ellen, and Samantha Close, eds. 2025. The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship. New York: Routledge.