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Alfred L. Martin Jr.

Alfred L. Martin Jr. is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at University of Iowa. Martin’s research focuses on race, sexuality, and media industries. Martin is currently completing work on his book The Queer Politics of Black-Cast Sitcoms which will be published in late 2019/early 2020 by Indiana University Press. 

Negotiating the Generic Closet in the Writers' Room

In an excerpt from The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. explores the politics of writers' rooms....

ALFRED L. MARTIN JR.

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"Visible: Out on Television": an LGBTQ TV Roundtable

A group of TV scholars consider Apple TV+'s new docuseries, "Visible: Out on Television," and the narratives of history and visibility it tells....

BECK BANKS, MAYRA BOTTARO, HOLLIS GRIFFIN, LAUREN HEROLD, JULIA HIMBERG, ALFRED L. MARTIN JR., MARIA SAN FILIPPO

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Pose(r): Ryan Murphy, Trans and Queer of Color Labor, and the Politics of Representation

Alfred Martin explores the limits of representation on FX's Pose......

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Notes from Underground: WGN’s Black-Cast Quality TV Experiment

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