beck krefting
PROFESSOR of american studies
Is Professor of the American Studies Department, affiliate faculty for Gender Studies,
IGR, and Media and Film Studies. Her research specializations are feminist comedy
studies; studies of visual and popular culture; preppers and post-apocalyptic cultural
texts; and pedagogical studies. Most recently she published two articles on Hannah
Gadsby's stand-up special Nanette, one in Studies in American Humor Journal and another in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She teaches courses fueled by her own scholarship like: Disorderly Women; A Humorous
(Dis)Course; Black Feminist Thoughts, and Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature. Other
course topics include: American foodways, human dilemmas, contemporary American cultures,
critical whiteness, and diversity in the United States.
and you can spot her walking around campus with her side-kick, Eli.