Olivia Stowell

Olivia Stowell's research and writing focus on race, labor, and gender in U.S. contemporary television, film, and popular culture.

Her dissertation project, tentatively titled Reality Reckoning: Race and Reality TV After 2020, explores discursive formations of race and racism as they relate to gender, work, genre, and regulation in post-2020 U.S. reality television. Reality Reckoning historicizes post-2020 reality TV both as a form and as an industry practice to understand its engagements with identity, politics, and power, working at the juncture of cultural studies and political economy.

In both her research and her pedagogy, Olivia is committed to frameworks that center justice, equity, and accessibility.