Novotny Lawrence

Assistant Professor

SIUC Faculty Since 2005

Contact Information

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Room: 2215 Communications Bldg.

Office Phone: (618) 453-3075

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Education

Ph.D. at University of Kansas, 2004

M.A. at University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998

Interests

African American representations in film and television, Japanese animation, Hindi cinema, film history, genre theory.

Biography

Novotny Lawrence received his Ph.D. from the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Race, Media, and Popular Culture in the Radio-Television Department at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale where he teaches courses such as Understanding Electronic Media, Media and Society, Documenting the Black Experience, and the History of African American Images in Film and Television. Dr. Lawrence is the author of the book Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre which was published by Routledge Press in 2007. His article, “The Jeffersons Redux: Repositioning a Popular Television Sitcom,” was published in Screening Noir and he has also written book chapters on the comedy of Dave Chappelle and the sci-fi series The Twilight Zone.

Courses

• RT 393 - Media and Society Spring 2008  Syllabus
• MCMA 555 - Documenting the Black Experience  Syllabus