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Department of
Communication Studies

Max Dosser

Senior Lecturer

Max Dosser is a senior lecturer of communication studies at Vanderbilt University. Before that, he was a graduate teaching fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph.D. in communication and rhetoric and Ph.D. certificates in film & media studies and in cultural studies. When he isn't teaching about or researching speculative fiction, fandoms, or reactionary rhetoric, he's writing about heroic blueberries, raven knights, and long voyages in outer space. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Flash Point Science Fiction.


Representative Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Edited Collections

  • 2016 Dalton, Mary, Rebecca Steiner, Katie Nelson, and Max Dosser, eds. Critical Media
    Studies: Student Essays on Deadwood. Winston-Salem: Library Partners Press, 2016.

Book Chapters

  • FC Dosser, Max. “Returning to Mayberry amid the 2020 Social Crises: An Oral History.” In
    Exploring Utopia and Nostalgia in The Andy Griffith Show: A Contemporary Analysis of
    a Classic TV Show, edited by David Johnson and William Rampone. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, forthcoming.
  • FC Dosser, Max. “What You Did is Not Okay: The Emotional Truth behind American Vandal’s Absurdity.” In Televising True Crime: The True Crime Genre in the Digital Age, edited by Anna Froula, Tanya Horeck, Melissa Lenos, and Erin Meyers. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • FC Dosser, Max. “Anger.” In Feminism and Feminist Movements in America: An Encyclopedia of Ideals and Activism, edited by Sarah Kornfield. New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • FC Dosser, Max. “Hegemonic Masculinity.” In Feminism and Feminist Movements in America: An Encyclopedia of Ideals and Activism, edited by Sarah Kornfield. New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • 2024 Smith, David E.K., and Max Dosser. “Teaching and Imagining Decoloniality through Indigenous Speculative Fiction.” In Inclusive Learning Through Fantasy, edited by
    Camille D.G. Mustachio. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, forthcoming in 2024.
  • 2024 Dosser, Max. “No Longer Lost in the Woods: Kristoff and a Non-Hegemonic Disney Prince Masculinity.” In The Frozen Phenomenon, edited by Maja Rudloff, Helen Haswell, and Brittany Eldridge. New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2024.
  • 2023 Dosser, Max. “From Fan Blogs to Earth Rumble VI: Disability Discourse on Avatar: The Last Airbender.” In The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma, and Fandom, edited by Francis M. Agnoli, 189–205. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • 2022 Dosser, Max, and Kevin Pabst. “Who Lives, Who Dies, He Tells the Story: Hip-Hop, Antagonist-Narrators, and the Impact of Musical Genre on Storytelling.” In The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton, edited by Luke Winslow, Nancy J. Legge, and Jacob Justice, 169–83. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
  • 2017 Dosser, Max. “Development Un-Arrested: Cancelled Sitcoms Meet Streaming Services.”In Critical Media Studies: Student Essays on Contemporary Sitcoms, edited by Mary Dalton, 5–22. Winston-Salem, NC: Library Partners Press, 2017.

Book Reviews