My scholarship has appeared in a number of books, including my own textbook Television and American Culture, my monograph Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, and essays in The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of US Radio Broadcasting, The Television Studies Reader, and The Television History Book.

I’ve published two essays in online open-access journals:
Jonathan Gray & Jason Mittell, “Speculation on Spoilers: Lost Fandom, Narrative Consumption and Rethinking Textuality” Particip@tions Volume 4, Issue 1 (May 2007)

Jason Mittell, “Sites of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of Lostpedia,” Transformative Works & Culture vol. 3, 2009.

Some of my prepublication essays have appeared on this blog: “These Questions Need Answers: Narrative Construction and the Veronica Mars Pilot,” “The Wire and the Serial Procedural: An Essay in Progress” and “Lost in a Great Story” – the latter is now published and available in Reading Lost: Perspectives on a Hit Television Show, edited by Roberta Pearson (I.B. Tauris, 2009).

In the spirit of access & exchange, here are links to some of my published scholarly essays from print journals for downloading:

“Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television,” The Velvet Light Trap #58, Fall 2006, 29-40.

“Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 31:1, Spring 2003, 36-46.

“A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory,” Cinema Journal, 40:3, Spring 2001, 3-24.

“Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of The Simpsons,” The Velvet Light Trap #47, Spring 2001, 15-28.

“The Cultural Power of an Anti-Television Metaphor: Questioning the ‘Plug-in Drug’ and a TV-Free America,” Television and New Media, 1: 2, May 2000, 215-238.