Helen Morgan Parmett
Associate Professor
Director of Speech & Debate
425 Old Mill
94 University Pl
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Communication Studies with an emphasis on Critical Media Studies, 2012
- M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communication Studies, with emphases in Rhetoric and Media Studies, 2002
- B.A., University of Vermont, Sociology and Political Science, minor in Speech, 2000
BIO
Helen Morgan Parmett, the Edwin W. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Forensics, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is also Director of the Speech and Debate Program and the Lawrence Debate Union as well as Affiliate Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Film and Television Studies Programs. Helen's research and teaching centers on critical media studies, where she focuses especially on relationships among media, identity, and space/place. Her research is invested in how media’s production practices (particularly those of radio, film, TV, interactive new media, and sports media) are materially implicated in urban spatiality and the constitution of place and identity.
Publications
Helen Morgan Parmett Publications (DOCX)
Area(s) of expertise
Critical Media Studies; Television Studies; Space/Place
Bio
Helen Morgan Parmett, the Edwin W. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Forensics, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is also Director of the Speech and Debate Program and the Lawrence Debate Union as well as Affiliate Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Film and Television Studies Programs. Helen's research and teaching centers on critical media studies, where she focuses especially on relationships among media, identity, and space/place. Her research is invested in how media’s production practices (particularly those of radio, film, TV, interactive new media, and sports media) are materially implicated in urban spatiality and the constitution of place and identity.
Publications
Areas of Expertise
Critical Media Studies; Television Studies; Space/Place