Kathy M. Newman

I'm an expert on the history of the First Amendment, Banned Books (in the US context especially), and I'm also a cultural historian of US media, including radio, TV, film and streaming. I'm also an expert on representations of working class people and unions in the US mass media. My books are: Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism (UC Press 2004), and Backstory: Film, Television and Labor in the age of the Blacklist (forthcoming with Rutgers U Press). I teach in the English department at Carnegie Mellon University.