Jason Mittell is Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. I am the author of Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004), and Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009). I am currently writing a book on narrative complexity in contemporary American television.

My research interests include television history and criticism, media and cultural history, genre theory, narratology, animation and children’s media, cultural historiography, and new media studies & technological convergence. See my CV for more details, or my scholarly writings for downloadable content.