Olivia Stowell is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, where she studies race and labor in contemporary television and popular culture. Her dissertation project explores discursive formations of race and racism in post-2020 US reality TV. Her work has appeared in Television & New Media, Critical Studies in Television, Public Books, Post45 Contemporaries, ASAP/J, and elsewhere.
Olivia Stowell
Articles
A Show About People Like Them
Olivia Stowell considers Danzy Senna’s new novel “Colored Television.”
To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun!”
Olivia Stowell reviews Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.”
Family No Longer Sustains: On Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives”
Olivia Stowell reviews Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas & the Reinvention of Television.”
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