Dustin Harp
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Assistant Professor
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Contact Information:
CMA 7.232
512-471-6720
dustinharp@mail.utexas.edu
Curriculum Vita (PDF)
Dustin Harp's research is bound by an interest in women's and gender issues, critical and cultural theoretical perspectives, and the use of qualitative methods. A prominent area of her research centers on new media. She is particularly interested in the online environment and how women and marginalized groups navigate through traditional obstacles and use the tools offered by the Internet to access a public sphere of political and social discourse.
This interest in new media, however, has not taken her away from research that considers more traditional forms of journalism. Her book on the history of women's sections in American newspapers and how the news industry has courted and constructed women readers as consumers, titled "Desperately seeking women readers: U.S. newspapers and the construction of a female readership," is due out in early 2007. Among her publications, Harp's research appears in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, and The Howard Journal of Communication.
Harp joined the School of Journalism in Spring 2003 after earning her Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her M.A. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin; and her B.A from Sonoma State University in California. A native Californian, Harp switched to a career in teaching and research after four years as a newspaper reporter in Northern California. Harp's professional journalism experience also includes editing and design.
Recent Publications
Dustin Harp (in press), Desperately Seeking Women Readers: Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Dustin Harp and Mark Tremayne (2006), "The Gendered Blogosphere: Examining Inequality Using Network and Feminist Theory," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 83(2), 247-264.
Dustin Harp (2006), "Newspapers' Transition from Women's to Style Pages: What Were They Thinking?"Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 7(2), 197-216.
Don Heider & Dustin Harp (2002), "New Hope or Old Power: New Communication, Pornography and the Internet," The Howard Journal of Communication, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 285-299.
Dustin Harp (in press), "Feminists and the News," in Women, Men, and News: Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape by Paula Poindexter, Sharon Meraz & Amy Schmitz-Weiss, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Paula Poindexter and Dustin Harp (in press), "The Softer Side of News," in Women, Men, and News: Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape by Paula Poindexter, Sharon Meraz & Amy Schmitz-Weiss, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Recent Conference Papers
Dustin Harp (2006), "Spaces for Feminist (Re)articulations: The Internet, Newspapers, and the Gang Rape of "Jane Doe," presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Commission on the Status of Women), San Francisco, CA.
Dustin Harp, Sandy Nichols, Mark Tremayne and Tina Castronovo (2006), "Women in the Blogosphere: Access, Practices, and Gender Politics," presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Commission on the Status of Women), San Francisco, CA.
Dustin Harp and Mark Tremayne (2005), "The Gendered Blogosphere: Where Promise Meets Reality," presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Communication Technology and Policy), San Antonio, TX.
Dustin Harp (2003),"Newspapers Transition from Women's to Style Pages: What Were They Thinking?" Presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Commission on the Status of Women), Kansas City, MO.
Dustin Harp (2003),"Feminist Consciousness and the Production of a Contemporary Women's Section," presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association (Feminist Scholarship Committee), San Diego, CA.
Recent Courses
Graduate Level:
Qualitative Methods (J381)
Mass Communication Theory II (J395)
Critical & Cultural Communication Theories (J95)
Visual Journalism (J380v)
News and the Construction of Identities (J395)
Undergraduate:
Women and the News (J340C)
News Media Writing and Editing (J315)
Print Design (J349)