Rate My Professor Jonathan Kraszewski

Jonathan Kraszewski, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts at Seton Hall University’s College of Human Development, Culture, and Media, where he serves as program coordinator for the Visual and Sound Media major. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University, M.A. from Georgetown University, and B.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Kraszewski’s research interests include media as cultural geography, media and the politics of space, media history, media and identity politics, television studies, and production cultures. He teaches media studies courses, helping students develop critical media analysis skills and a sense of social justice through engagement with media texts.

The author of two books, Reality TV (Routledge, 2017) and The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), Kraszewski has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on television and film. Key publications include “The 1980s Action Film and the Politics of Urban Expulsions” in A Companion to the Action Film (Wiley, 2019), “The Weather Channel: Genre, Trust, and Unscripted Television in an Age of Apps” in From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels (Routledge, 2018), “Televising Superstorm Sandy: New Configurations of Poverty and Neoliberalism in Extreme Weather Coverage” in Extreme Weather and Global Media (Routledge, 2015), and “Branding, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Race on VH1’s Flavor of Love” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2014). His current research projects explore the cultural politics of class, race, and gender in representations of pit bull owners and the architectures of play on television game shows as they relate to economic assumptions of selfhood in American culture. Kraszewski received a Seton Hall University Research Council grant for “Route 66: Understanding the Series as a Television Milestone.”