All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Lisa Cuklanz is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at Boston College. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, Director of Women s Studies at Boston College, and co-chaired the Graduate Consortium in Women s Studies. She has published extensively on representations of rape in American television and news media, including the monograph Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence (2000).