Dr. Holly W. Holladay

Biography

Dr. Holly Holladay is an associate professor of media theory and criticism in the Department of Communication, Media, Journalism and Film. In addition to her teaching and research, she serves as a proactive advisor for the college, and is a member of committees across the university and within the media and communication studies discipline.

Details

Education

• PhD, Media and Cultural Studies, 2015, University of Missouri
• Graduate Certificate, Women's and Gender Studies, 2015, University of Missouri
• MA, Communication Studies, 2008, Ball State University
• BS, Organizational Communication, 2006, Murray State University

Teaching

• MED 220 Media Literacy
• MED 304 Mass Media Theory
• MED 355 Social Media
• MED 454 Media Analysis and Criticism

Professional experience

Professional affiliations

• National Communication Association
• Popular Culture Association
• American Association of University Women

Selected publications

• Holladay, H. W. (2023). TV Milestones: Parks and Recreation. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
• Click, M.A., Edgar, A. E., & Holladay, H. W. (2021). Race talk, fandom, and the legacy of plantation culture in the NFL player protests. Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, 15(3), 256-273.doi: 10.1080/17513057.2021.1918213
• Holladay, H.W., & Classen, C. L. (2021). The drip, drip, drip of dystopia: The Handmaid’s Tale, temporal boundaries, and affective investment. Feminist Media Studies, 21(3), 477-492.doi: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1678504
• Holladay, H. W., & Edgar, A. N. (2019). “I’m never gonna stop watching it”: The paradox of parasocial breakups in a post-object era. Journal of Fandom Studies, 7(3), 213-227. doi: 10.1386/jfs_00001_1
• Edgar, A. N., & Holladay, H. W. (2019). “Everybody’s hard times are different”: Country as a political investment in precarity. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 16(2), 122-139. doi: 10.1080/14791420.2019.1638952
• Holladay, H. W. (2019). Back on the porch: Southern working-class whiteness and the liberal redneck revolution. The Journal of Popular Culture, 52(3), 500-517. doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12804
• Holladay, H. W., & Click, M. A. (2019). Hating Skyler White: Gender and anti-fandom in AMC’s Breaking Bad. In M. Click (Ed.), Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age (pp. 147-166). New York: New York University Press.
• Holladay, H. W. (2018). Reckoning with the "redneck": Duck Dynasty and the boundaries of morally appropriate whiteness. Southern Communication Journal, 83(4), 256-266. doi: 10.1080/1041794X.2018.1472797
• Holladay, H. W. (2016). How far we’ve come?: Nostalgia and post-feminism in Mad Men. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 13(2), 34-55.

Research and professional interests

• Television
• Media audiences
• Media fandom
• Media theory
• Cultural studies
• Feminist theory
• Identity

Awards and honors

• Dean’s Leadership Fellow, Reynolds College of Arts & Letters, 2021-2022
• Murray State University Top 22 Under 40 Young Alumni Award, 2022
• High-Impact Teaching Award, MSU Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, 2019

Additional resources

• Curriculum Vitae
• Mind's Eye - How studying what we like can show us who we are

Areas of Expertise

Media Appearances