Jennifer PorstActing Associate Professor & Co-Director of the Concentration of Film and Media Management

Jennifer Porst’s research and teaching interests focus on the contemporary and historical American media industries, the laws and regulations that govern their behaviors, and the texts they produce. She has taught courses on media industry studies, digital distribution, HBO, media law and regulation, contemporary television, and television history.

 

Dr. Porst is the author of Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV (Rutgers University Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Cultural Change (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Her research has also appeared in Television & New Media, Film History, Studies in French Cinema, Flow, and In Media Res, as well as in collections including the Routledge Companion to Media Industries (2022) and Hollywood and the Law (BFI Publishing, 2015).

 

She is currently working on a monograph on the regulations that shape film and television in the streaming space. She is also co-authoring the book Introduction to Media Industries: Film, Television, and Streaming (Routledge, anticipated 2026) with Dr. Kate Fortmueller, and co-editing a special issue of Television & New Media on content regulation with Dr. Deborah Jaramillo.

 

Before joining the faculty at Emory, Dr. Porst was a faculty member at the University of North Texas, Emerson College, UCLA, and California State University, Long Beach.