Megan Wood

Name:
Megan Wood
Title:
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Email:
m-wood@onu.edu
Phone:
419-772-2056
Office:
Performing Arts Center 127
Address:
ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ, Ada, OH, 45810
Academic Credentials
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gV2cLvvrCpedCeKuhHQjJvU4sNoSOLRu-0jMLOfTcgA/edit
Research Interests
Cultural Studies (practice, pedagogy, history), Media and Technology Studies, Cultural Economy, Critical Corporate Studies, Surveillance Studies, Black Atlantic and Transnational Feminist Theory, U.S. Political and Popular Cultures
Employee degree:

BA, Christopher Newport University

MA, University of South Florida

PHD, Univ of North Carolina Chapel

Biography
Megan Wood is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture within the Department of Art & Communication at Ohio Northern University. She holds a Ph.D. in communication and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An advocate of transdisciplinary, collaborative, and issue-oriented inquiry, Wood has authored, co-authored, and presented dozens of articles, book chapters, reports, and teaching materials on the role of culture and identity in shaping interactions and transforming institutions. Her scholarly work has been published in journals including Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Lateral, and in edited collections such as Feminist Surveillance Studies (Duke University Press) and Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond: Critical Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies (Palgrave MacMillan).
 
Wood's research — which draws on her training in cultural studies, media and technology studies, feminist theory, and political economy — explores popular culture’s engagement with politicized imaginaries with a focus on gender, race, class, and affect. She recently guest edited and introduced a forum in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies on the cultural and affective dimensions of authoritarianism and the sexual politics that sustain it. Wood is currently at work on two projects: one exploring apocalyptic feeling as an imaginative and (potentially) transformative force, and another examining the linked crises of democracy and popular culture in the age of the late internet and generative AI.

In addition to her academic work, Megan is also a consultant at Vocable Communications.

 

Recent Scholarship: 

  • Wood, Megan M. (2025). Daddy’s Home: Sexual Politics, Authoritarian Desire, and the Re-Election of Donald Trump. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 22 (3): 408–414.
  • Fisher, Jill, Megan M. Wood, and Torin Monahan. (2021). Speculating on Precarious Income: Finance Cultures and the Risky Strategies of Healthy Volunteers in Clinical Drug Trials. Journal of Cultural Economy 14 (4): 464–484.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2019). On ‘Telling Better Stories’: Lawrence Grossberg and Cultural Studies in the Present. Cultural Studies 33 (1): 19–28.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2019). Conjuncturally Teaching. In Jaafar Aksikas and Sean Andrews (eds.) Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond: Critical Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Wood, Megan M. (2018). All in the Family? Journal of Cultural Economy 11 (1): 83-88.
  • Brownlow, Ryan and Megan M. Wood (co-first author). (2017). Not About White Workers: The Perils of Popular Ethnographic Narrative in the Time of Trump. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6 (2): 1–15.

Classes Taught: 

  • CAMS 1301: Presentational Speaking
  • CAMS 2321: Group Dynamics and Team Interaction
  • CAMS 3341: Communication, Gender, & Culture
  • CAMS 4431: Communication Theory
  • CAMS 4381: Communication & Media Studies Senior Thesis

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