Mark C. Rogers


Department of Communication
Walsh University
2020 East Maple St. NW
North Canton, Ohio 44720

Education

University Of Michigan-Ann Arbor                    1992-1997
        Program in American Culture
        Ph.D. American Culture

Dissertation: Beyond Bang! Pow! Zap!:Genre and the Evolution of the American Comic Book Industry.
Advisor: Herbert J. Eagle

University Of Michigan-Ann Arbor                    1990-1992
        Department of Communication
        M.A. Telecommunication Arts
       
University Of Michigan-Ann Arbor                    1986-1990
        Residential College
        B.A. Social Sciences
        With Honors

Professional Experience-Teaching and Administration
Associate Chair, Division of Humanities, Walsh University, 2008-present

Director, Communication Program, Walsh University, 2005-present
Oversaw the administration of the Communication department within the Divisions of Business, Economics and Communication (05-08) and Humanities (08-). Oversaw scheduling and staffing of courses in communication. Supervised and evaluated adjunct and fulltime faculty. Coordinated academic advising and budget for the department, the student newspaper, and student radio station..

Director of International Learning Programs, Walsh University, 2006-present
Oversaw the academic aspects of Study Abroad and other experiential learning programs. Responsibilities included developing policies and procedures for course proposals, creating an academic admission policy, reviewing requests for exception to the admission policy, and creating guidelines and working with faculty to assure the academic quality of Walsh University international study programs.

Chair, Division of Communication and Fine Arts, Walsh University    2000-2005

Oversaw scheduling and staffing of courses in communication, art, and music. Supervised and evaluated adjunct and fulltime faculty. Coordinated academic advising, new faculty hiring, and department budgets.

Professor, Walsh University                                     2007-Present
Associate Professor, Walsh University                    2003-2007
Assistant Professor, Walsh University                    1997-2003   
   
Taught a wide variety of courses in the Department of Communication, including Mass Media and Society, Television Production, Radio Production, Advertising and Public Relations, Film as Communication, Speech, Writing for Broadcast Media, Research Methods in Mass Communication and a senior seminar in Mass Media Issues and Ethics. Also taught an interdisciplinary introduction to the Walsh core curriculum.

Served as faculty advisor for WCAV student radio station. Helped the student management improve their relationships with record companies, and implement live broadcasts of local sporting events. Also served as academic advisor to roughly one third to one half of the communication and corporate communication majors. 

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan            1990-96
   
Taught a wide variety of courses, both as an assistant and as an individual instructor. Worked in Department of Communication, and the American Culture and Film and Video programs. Duties varied, but generally included grading papers and exams, constructing assignments, lecturing, teaching discussion sections for lecture courses, moderating computer conferences, and selecting readings.

Courses Included:
Themes in American Culture
            (Comic Books and American Culture)
American Film Genres       
American Values
Analyzing Television
Television and Radio Production
Advanced Television Production
Introduction to Mass Media
History of World Cinema

International Administrative Experience
Assistant Director, CCSA Scotland/England Program, Summer 2000.
Director, CCSA Scotland/England Program, Summer 2001.
Assistant Director, CCSA London Winter Program, 2001-2002.
Assistant Director, CCSA London Winter Program, 2003-2004.
Director, CCSA Scotland/England Program, Summer 2005.
Assistant Director, CCSA London Winter Program, 2006-2007.
 

Public And Professional Service
Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, Walsh University, 2006-present.
Walsh University Rep. Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship Program, 2004-2006
Vice-Chair, Walsh University Academic Assembly, 2004-2006
Board of Trustees, Cooperative Center for Study Abroad, 1999-present
NAIA Faculty Athletic Representative, 1999-2008
Faculty Affairs Committee, Walsh University, 1999-2000, 2001-2003
Chair, Walsh University Library Committee, 1998-2000
American Culture Program, Graduate Committee, 1996-97
American Culture Program Executive Committee, 1995-96
Department Steward, Graduate Employees Organization, 1995-96
Steering Committee, Graduate Employees Organization, Fall 1995

Awards and Honors
Faculty Award for Scholarship, Walsh University, 2007
American Culture Dissertation Fellowship, Winter 1997
Dean’s Candidacy Fellowship, Summer and Fall 1995
Joe Lee Davis Award, Program in American Culture, 1994-95

Publications

Reeves, J.L., M.C. Rogers, and M.M. Epstein. “Quality Control: The Daily Show, the Peabody and Brand Discipline.”   In Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond. J. McCabe and K. Akass, eds. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Rogers, M.C. “Understanding Production: The Stylistic Impact of Artisan and Industrial Methods.” International Journal of Comic Art 8, no. 1 (2006): 509-517.

Epstein, M.M., J.L. Reeves and M.C. Rogers. “Surviving the Hit: Will The Sopranos still Sing for HBO.” in Reading the Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO. D. Lavery, ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Epstein, M.M., M.C. Rogers and J.L. Reeves. “From Must-See-TV to Branded Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication.” in Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom. D. Lavery and S. Dunne, eds. New York: Continuum, 2006.
 
Rogers, M.C. Review of The Pirates and The Mouse: Disney’s War Against the Counterculture by Bob Levin, International Journal of Comic Art 6 no.1 (2004): 347-349.

Rogers M.C., M.M. Epstein, and J.L. Reeves “The Sopranos as HBO Brand Equity: The Art of Commerce in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. D. Lavery, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Rogers, M.C. Review of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire––And Both Lost by Dan Raviv, International Journal of Comic Art 4, no.2 (2002): 342-343.

Rogers, M.C. “Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art 3, no. 1 (2001): 93-108.

Rogers, M.C. Review of Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign,  John A. Lent, ed. International Journal of Comic Art 2, no. 2 (2000): 311-312.

Rogers, M.C. “License Farming and the American Comic Book Industry.”  International Journal of Comic Art 1, no. 2 (1999): 132-142.

Rogers, M.C. Review of Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, by Amy Kiste Nyberg. International Journal of Comic Art 1, no. 2 (1999): 242-243.

Rogers, M.C. “Comic Books Blend Print and Visual Art.”  in Richard A. Campbell. Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: St. Martins, 1997. Reprinted in the Second Edition, 2000. Revised as “Comic Books: Alternative Themes but Superheroes Prevail,” in the Third Edition, 2002.

Reeves, J.L., M.C. Rogers, and M.M. Epstein. “Rewriting Popularity: The Cult Files.”  in Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X-Files (The Television Series). M. Cartwright, A. Hague, and D. Lavery, eds. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Reprinted in the third edition of Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, S. Maasik and J. Solomon, eds. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000.

Rogers, M.C.  “Comic Books: Culture in Four Colors.” in Genre and Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays. Foundations in Library and Information Science, Volume 38. M. Wolf and M. Martin, eds. Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1996.

Reeves, J.L., L. Brent, R. Campbell, H. Eagle, J. Jenkins, M. C. Rogers, L. Saaf, and N. Zuberi. “Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks.” in Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. David Lavery, ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Rogers, M.C. “Wile E. Coyote Still Died for Your Sins: Intertextuality and Continuity in Sandman and Animal Man.”  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 2006.

Rogers, M.C. and T.J. Deci. “Big Heads and Unlimited Ammo: Cheating, the Internet, and the Culture of Gamers.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California March 25,
2005.

Rogers, M.C. “Understanding Production: The Stylistic Impact of Artisan and Industrial Methods.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 9, 2004

Rogers, M.C. “Caught in the Media Web: How Big Companies Control What you See, Hear, and Know,” Invited Presentation, Artist and Lecturers Series, Kent Sate University-Tuscarawas Campus. March 18, 2004.

 

Rogers, M.C. “Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Generic Renewal in American Comics.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 2003

Rogers, M.C. “Capturing Darkness: Comics and The Film Noir Style.” Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Georgetown University and Bethesda, Maryland September 5-8, 2002. Rescheduled from the canceled ICAF 2001.

Rogers, M.C. Organizer and Moderator. “Comics and Comic Art Area Roundtable: Comics Research and Academic Careers.” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 14, 2001.

Rogers, M.C. “Policing The Comics 2000: Revisiting British Cultural Studies and Comics.” Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Bethesda, Maryland September 14-16, 2000.

Rogers, M.C. “Political Economics in Four Colors:  Comics and The Production Process.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 2000.

Rogers, M.C. “The High Cost Of Fandom: The American Comic Book Industry from Mass Medium to Niche Medium.” Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Bethesda, Maryland September 16-18, 1999.

Rogers, M.C. “Bats and Turtles and Hellspawn, Oh My: License Farming and the Future of American Comics.”  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 3, 1999.

Rogers, M.C. “From Femme Fatales to Ninja Hookers: Crime Comics and the Influence of Film Noir.”  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida April 8-11, 1998.

Rogers, M.C. With M.M. Epstein. “Building the Cult Audience: X-Philes and The X-Files.”   Presented as an American Culture Brown Bag, April 11, 1997.

Rogers, M.C. “The Silver Age and the End of Comics as a Mass Medium.”  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. March 26-29, 1997.

Rogers, M.C. “From Anthropomorphic Mice to Pornographic Teenagers: Visual Style and Genre in Postmodern Comic Books.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 24-27, 1996.

Rogers, M.C. “Virtual Fans, Virtual Ethnography: Studying Comics Fans Online.” Invited Paper, Department Of Cultural Studies, University Of Birmingham, October 17, 1995.

Rogers, M.C.  “Policing The Comics: EC Crime Comics and The Comics Code.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 12-15, 1995.

Rogers, M.C. “Transgression and Subversion in EC Crime Comics.” Presented as an American Culture Brown Bag, November 4, 1994.

Rogers, M.C. “Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics.” Presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 6-7, 1994.

Rogers, M.C. “Wile E. Coyote Died for Your Sins: Subversive and Hierarchical Uses of Intertextuality in Sandman and Animal Man.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. April 6-9, 1994.

Rogers, M.C. “Subversive and Hierarchical Uses of Intertextuality in Comic Books.” Presented at Cultural Contingencies, Graduate Student Conference, Wayne State University, May 21-23, 1993.
1992
Reeves, J.L., R. Campbell, M. Epstein, R. Freed, M. C. Rogers, and T. Shuker-Haines. “Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Northern Exposure.” Presented at the Annual Speech Communication Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.