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Rachel Dubrofsky
Rachael Dubrofsky is an assistant professor in the Departments of Humanities & Cultural Studies and Women's & Gender Studies at The University of South Floria. Dr. Dubrovsky received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Western Civilization and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal, in 1993. She received her Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at York University, Toronto in 1998, and her Ph.D. in Institute of Communications Research at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2005. She joined the University of South Florida as a full time professor in 2007.

Dr. Dubrofsky's research focuses on critical/cultural studies of communication and feminist media studies with a specialization in TV studies and surveillance. She teaches courses in Reality TV and media studies to graduate and undergraduate students. Her new book, The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, is part of the Critical Studies in Television series edited by Mark Andrejevic at Lexington Press. Her current projects look at the reality TV phenomena and at online social networking sites. She has published multiple articles through various print and online presses, and is often interviewed for her expertise on reality television and culture.

Publications
The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette (Critical Studies in Television)

“Singing to the Tune of Postracism: Jewishness, Blackness, and Whiteness on Glee,” Communication, Culture & Critique, 6(1), pp. 82-102. (2013)

“Surveillance on Reality TV and Facebook: From Authenticity to Flowing Data,” Communication Theory, 21(2). (2011)

“Fallen Women on Reality TV: A Pornography of 	Emotion.” Feminist Media Studies, 9(3). (2009)

“Performing Race in Flavor of Love and The Bachelor.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(4). (2008) (With Antoine Hardy)

"'Therapeutics of the Self’: Surveillance in the Service of the Therapeutic.”  Television and New Media, 8(4).  (2007)

"The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem.”  Critical Studies in Media Communication, 23(1). (2006)

"Ally McBeal as Postfeminist Icon: the Aestheticizing and Fetishizing of the Independent Working Woman." Communication Review, 5(4). (2002).

Interviews
The Hipster Racism of Reality TV (From Salon.com)

Audio interview with Dr. Dubrofsky (Fembot collective as part of the Books Aren't Dead (BAD) series )

Audio interview with Dr. Dubrofsky (The Critical Lede)

On Facebook and reality TV (for the Montreal Gazette)

On Polk County Sheriff being offered reality show (for The Ledger)

On The Bachelor (for The Daily Beast) On Reality TV (for USA Today)

On Madonna (for Montreal Gazette)