About
Maddie Ullrich is a PhD student in the Program of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on television and gender, specifically how the medium of TV has changed over time–narratively, formally, and aesthetically–in its relationship to the identity of “women” through appeals to “women’s culture,” femininity, feminism, and post-feminism, at different historical junctures. Her broader interests are in feminist media studies and queer theory.
When she’s not watching TV (or writing about it) Maddie is a fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities. During her time in the fellowship, she has worked as a project assistant for the University of Rochester’s Mediate, a digital annotation tool for audiovisual media, as well as for Reading Like a Victorian, a digital humanities project that recreates the Victorian serial reading experience, based out of Ohio State University.
Maddie has published her writing on television, queer theory, and digital humanities in both public-facing and academic journals. You can find her in ASAP/Journal, Post45, Digital Humanities Quarterly, View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, and InVisible Culture. Currently, she is co-writing a book chapter on the digital humanities in graduate education through University of Minnesota Press’s “Debates in Digital Humanities” series.