Who participates in CED?
CED membership is open to everyone in the Northwestern community as well as the larger Evanston and Chicago community. Events are open to the public. For more information, please contact us at northwesternced@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you at CED events!
2012-2013 CED Co-Chairs
Meenasarani Linde Murugan
Ph.D. Screen Cultures (in progress), Northwestern University
M.A. Cinema Studies, New York University
B.A. Film Studies, Wesleyan University
Linde does work on television, mid-century culture, race, and empire. Here other research interests include gender, transnationalism, and fashion. She has written about contemporary television programs such as Mad Men and The Mindy Project for print and online publications. Her dissertation
project is tentatively titled, “Exotic Television: Intimacy, Empire, and
Entertaining Globalism, 1950s-1970s.” Linde is from Indianapolis, Indiana, but her heart and home can also be found in New York, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Madison, and Tamil Nadu, among other places.
Kimberly Alecia Singletary
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Public Culture (in progress), Northwestern University
M.A. Communication, Culture, Technology, Georgetown University
B.J., Missouri School of Journalism
Kim's research
uses principles of rhetoric to examine images of U.S. blackness in contemporary
German culture. Her article, “Opposing Blackness: Black American Women and
Questions of Citizenship in the U.S. Media,” was recently accepted for
publication in the REAL Yearbook 2011, in association with the John F. Kennedy
Institute for North American Studies, in Berlin, Germany. Her article,
“Interdisciplinary Intellect: HASTAC and the Commitment to Encourage Collective
Intelligence,” will be published in Arts
and Humanities in Higher Education in January 2012. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna,
Austria, in 2003; her research in Austria focused on the rising popularity of U.S.
hip-hop culture and amidst a vocal right-wing political movement. Kim is from the south suburbs of Chicago and while she still calls
Chicagoland home, she has hung her hat in several countries and states
and cities, while always making sure to look around the corner for the
next new adventure and the next exciting place to hang her hat.
