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Her teaching and research focus on advancing creative, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to visual media culture, identity, gender and sexuality, and online communication. Her research contributes to visual culture studies, feminist intersectional media studies, and critical media approaches to crime and criminalization. She holds a PhD in Communication from Carleton University, a MA in Media Studies from The University of Western Ontario, and an Honours BA in Media, Information and Technoculture also from Western.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Research Interests<b><\/b><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My research explores varied visual media practices tied to notoriety construction in North American popular culture. Looking to familiar images of criminalized and victimized subjects, I consider how notoriety emerges through the transmediated use of photographic and artistic images. For example, I am currently investigating the legal, journalistic, and social conventions tied to courtroom art production in Canada \u2013 and in particular, how drawn likenesses of accused criminals are created and used in news reporting. A secondary, ongoing project considers the commercial function of crime in a postfeminist, \u2018true crime\u2019 media culture. My co-authored research published in the Journal of Gender Studies and TOPIA offers critiques of other visual materials circulating online (e.g., anti- and pro-vaccination memes) and in colonial texts and policies (e.g., through Indian Residential School reports and photography). Questions of method, knowledge production and affect are central to all my research endeavours, which also directly informs my teaching practice.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Teaching Experience and Supervision<b><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>I regularly teach research-focused classes, such as \u2018Introduction to Communication Research\u2019 (COMS 2004), \u2018Qualitative Research in Communication\u2019 (COMS 3002) and \u2018Professional Communication Research\u2019 (COMS 4507), and I teach specialized undergraduate elective courses like \u2018Media and Crime\u2019 (COMS 3003), \u2018Gender, Sexuality and Media\u2019 (COMS 4604), and \u2018Gender, Sexuality, Culture\u2019 (COMS 5509) at the graduate level. Overall, my pedagogical approach is student-centred, experiential, and oriented around skills development.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, I was awarded the Faculty of Public Affairs\u2019 Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of my commitment to student satisfaction, engagement and support, along with curriculum development.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of a <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/awards-and-grants\/internal-funding\/sotl-grant-recipients\/\">Scholarship in Teaching and Learning grant<\/a>, I am conducting research on co-op students\u2019 perspectives on the learning outcomes of the program, and at a broader level, developing a systematic process for consulting students as part of program review and curriculum development.<\/p>\n<p>I also supervise undergraduate and graduate students on a wide range of projects and topics, such as: age and gendered practices on Instagram, postfeminist pop culture, decolonial news and art, and gaming culture and geek masculinity. I regularly work with undergraduate students through the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/future-learning-lab\/sapp\/\">Students as Partners Program<\/a> and mentor graduate Research Assistants with hands-on research training. I welcome expressions of interest re: supervision from MA Communication students who are pursuing Major Research Essays.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Publications<b><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Robinson, S., &amp; Hiltz, E. (2024). Platformed misogyny in Depp v Heard: #justiceforjohnny and networked defamation. Feminist Media Studies, 24:1, 162-165. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14680777.2023.2284107\">10.1080\/14680777.2023.2284107<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brady, M. J., Christiansen, E., &amp; Hiltz, E. (2022). Good Karen, Bad Karen: visual culture and the anti-vaxx mom on Reddit, Journal of Gender Studies. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09589236.2022.2069088\">10.1080\/09589236.2022.2069088<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brady, M., &amp; Hiltz, E. (2017). The archaeology of an image: The persistent persuasion of Thomas Moore Keesick\u2019s residential school photographs. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. DOI: 37(Spring), 61-85. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/utpjournals.press\/doi\/10.3138\/topia.37.61\">10.3138\/topia.37.61<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Select Conference Presentations<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWeaponizing defamation: Harms, hate, and platformed misogyny in Depp v Heard.\u201d Console-ing Passions 2023, Calgary AB, June 23, 2024. Presented with Sandra Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Finding \u2018Karen\u2019: Tracking the Good and Bad \u2018Anti-Vaxx\u2019 Mom on Reddit.\u201d Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. Panel: Grappling with feminisms in our methodologies. June 4, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe violence of smiles through the Black Dahlia image: Cultural remediations of Elizabeth<\/p>\n<p>Short\u2019s victim photographs.\u201d Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa. March 23, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotoriety as postfeminist sensibility.\u201d Histories \/ theories \/ archaeologies \/ archives: 40 years of communication and media research. Panel: Histories. Carleton University, Ottawa. Sept. 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visual construction of criminal notoriety: Discourse analysis as an historical critique of violent women\u2019s notoriety.\u201d Paris 2017, The International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) \u2013 Media and History: Crime, Violence and Justice. Paris, France. 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