- Phone
- (909) 607-7025
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West Hall Q122
Bio
Elizabeth Affuso has been with Pitzer since 2011, serving as both a faculty member and Academic Director of Media Studies.
Elizabeth’s scholarly interests include issues of spectatorship, fandom, branding, technology, social media, celebrity, and consumer culture. She is the co-editor (with Suzanne Scott) of Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (2023). Her work has appeared in scholarly journals including JumpCut and Film Criticism, where she co-edited the special issue on “Films and Merchandise” (2018) with Avi Santo. She has published chapters in edited collections including Documenting Fashion (ed. Elena Caoduro and Boel Ulfsdotter, 2023), Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail (ed. Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson, 2019), and The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (ed. Melissa Click and Suzanne Scott, 2018).
Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Cinema Studies and Fine Art at New York University.