/College of Arts and Sciences
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Genevieve Ruzicka

 

Genevieve Ruzicka

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Research Interests

  •  Television studies, science fiction studies, surveillance studies, queer theory, cultivation theory.

 

Biography

Genevieve Ruzicka is a 6th year PhD Candidate in the WGSS program. Additionally, she completed her B.A in both Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies here at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation examines prime time network television programs focusing around the narrative concept of time travel. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining television studies, queer studies, mad studies, and surveillance studies, she examines how these programs subvert the radical potential of time travel, uphold/reinforce neoliberal/technofascist logics, and fallaciously position the Security State as a site of empowerment for marginalized groups.

Genevieve has been an active member of the WGSS Graduate Community. She served as Graduate Representative, acting as a liaison between the graduate students and the faculty. She served on, and then as co-chair and Chair of the WGSS Conference Committee, and has designed and hosted several workshops designed to assist newer graduate students in navigating teaching, coursework, and comprehensive examinations. 

She has chaired multiple conference panels around the United States including MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Cultural Association) and SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association). Most recently, she chaired the Undergraduate Essay Award Committee for SAMLA which awards exceptional undergraduate student presentations with an honorarium of $125 and publication on the SAMLA website.

Genevieve was the recipient of the 2025 Stony Brook University Alumni Association Summer Doctoral Fellowship, designed to help PhD students of promise in continuing their dissertation research and writing over the summer. 

Her publications include book reviews in the South Atlantic Review and Critical Studies in Television and chapters in the edited volume The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film from Rowman and Littlefield.

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