Elizabeth LeDoux

Elizabeth LeDoux

  • Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies
  • Internship Coordinator, Department of English and Media Studies
  • Program Coordinator, Film and Media Studies (formerly Media and Culture) Program, Department of English and Media Studies
  • MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston
  • MA New School University
  • BFA School of Visual Arts

Teaching Interests

Film/Video/Audio Production;
Animation and Motion Design;
Gender and Genre;
Cinema and Television Studies

Research Interests

Narrative Concepts in Television;
Interactive Experimental Cinema;
New Media Narratives;

Consulting/Practice Interests

Graphic/Web Design Consulting;
Documentary Film Distribution;
Motion Design for Time-Based Media

Bio

Currently serves as faculty member and advisor, and director for the Media and Culture program at Bentley University in the Department of English and Media Studies. Working as Editor, the film How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Trampoline screened at the 2015 Best of Boston screening for the 48-Hour Film Project-Boston competition held at Kendall Cinema. Solo video installation, Borderlands, was shown at the Aidekman Art Gallery and the Vitale, Caturano & Company Art Gallery. As Associate Producer, the feature-length documentary Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan has screened in numerous film festivals internationally and is being distributed by The Cinema Guild. Production credits include production manager, videographer, assistant camera, electric, grip, and sound recordist for numerous production companies. Filmmaker, video artist, and educator.

Professional Links

Professional Memberships

  • Women in Film and Video New England 2021 - Present
  • University Film and Video Association 2021 - Present
  • Massachusetts Production Coalition Higher Ed Consortium 2017 - Present
  • National Association for Media Literacy Education 2016 - Present
  • Action Coalition in Media and Education 2006 - 2016
  • Women in Film and Video New England 2006 - 2007
  • New York State Communication Association 2003 - 2006

    • Awards and Honors

  • 2023, Gregory J. Hall Award for Excellence in Honors Capstone Advising, Bentley Honors Program
  • 2021, Service Learning Faculty Member of the Year, Bentley Service Learning Center
  • 2012, Audience Award, 48 Hour Film Festival-Boston
  • 2004, Professional Development Grant, City University of New York

    • Publications

    Books

  • LeDoux, E. A. (). Subversive Women in Speculative Film and Television: Reimagining Horror, Science-Fiction, and Superhero Narratives. The manuscript is due late 2024, for publication in 2025.. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books Forthcoming.

    • Book Chapters

  • LeDoux, E. A. (). The Magical Place of the Everyman as Superhero In Heather M. Porter and Sherry Ginn, (Eds.) What We Fight For: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., forthcoming 2024.. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Forthcoming.
  • LeDoux, E. A. (). The Divine Yet Diabolical Intervention of the ‘Artifact’ in Good Omens In Mandy Taylor and Erin Gianinni, (Eds.) Deciphering Good Omens: Nice and Accurate Essays on the Novel and Television Series, forthcoming 2025.. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Forthcoming.

    • Presentations

  • LeDoux, E. A., LeDoux, E. A. (2024). “Genre Anarchy and the Women Who Subvert in Everything Everywhere All at Once” Presented at the SWPACA SW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2023). “After Life (Hand-drawn, 2D animated short)” Presented at the Bentley Research Council Bentley's 10th Annual Research Showcase Poster Session
  • LeDoux, E. A., LeDoux, E. A. (2023). “A Normal Amount of Rage: Female Fandom and Its Impact on the Female SuperHERo Narrative” Presented at the SWPACA SW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2023). “Subverting Women in Horror, Science-Fiction, and Superhero Film and Television” Presented at the Bentley Research Council Bentley Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Poster Showcase
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2022). Presented at the Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences Entrepreneurship in Arts: The Disrupting Opportunities of Blockchain Technology in the Commercialization and Securitization of Art Works in Today’s Economic Environment Wilder Pavilion/Virtual
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2022). “Complex Female Visions and Meta Fandom in WandaVision” Presented at the SWPACA SW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2021). “Students with a Movie Camera: A 2020 Pandemic Odyssey” Presented at the UFVA University Film and Video Association Conference Virtual
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2021). “Codifying Apocalyptic Individualism Through Collectivist Experience in The Cabin in the Woods” Presented at the SWPACA SW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Virtual
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2020). “The Magical Place of the Everyman as Superhero in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Presented at theSW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2019). “When Men Break Bad, Better Call the Women: Rethinking the Hypermasculinity of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul as Feminist Text” Presented at theSW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • Pennel, R., Abbott, T., Stuckey, K., Siomopoulos, A., LeDoux, E., Medden, S. (2019). “Teaching Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Workshop”
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2018). “The Stranger Things of “Stranger Things”: The Real Upside Down of the Feminine Subverting the Masculine in Crisis” Presented at theSW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2017). “Clones, Cylons, Hosts, and Skin Jobs: Identifying with the Manufactured, Multiple Other in Westworld” Presented at theSW Popular/American Culture Association Conference Albuquerque, NM
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2016). “Television as the New Novel, The Novel as New Television” Presented at the University of Portland What is Media? Portland, OR
  • Frydenberg, M. E., LeDoux, E. A., Rhinesmith, C. H. (2006). “Morphing From Music: iPods Enter The Classroom”
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2005). “Podcasting and Its Effects for Independent Media Producers” Presented at theNew York State Communication Association Kerhonkson, NY
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2003). “Project-based Learning” Presented at the Office of Academic Affairs/City College CUNY College Now Roundtable New York, NY
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2003). “Narrative Reciprocity in Cinema and Computer Gaming” Presented at theNew York State Communication Association Kerhonkson, NY
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2002). “The Experience of the New Dream Narrative in Mulholland Drive” Presented at theNew York State Communication Association Tarrytown, NY
  • LeDoux, E. A. (2001). “The Future of Interactive Consumerism” Presented at the The New School Critical Themes in Media Studies New York, NY

    • Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

  • Borderlands, (2008).
  • Borderlands, (2008).
  • After Life (Hand-drawn, 2D animated short), ().
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Trampoline, ().
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Trampoline, ().
  • Caught in Annette, ().
  • Cakewalk, ().
  • Cakewalk, ().
  • Six Hours or Less, ().
  • Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan, ().
  • Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan, ().
  • Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan, ().
  • Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan, ().
  • Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan, ().
  • It Starts With a Kiss, ().
  • It Starts With a Kiss, ().
  • It Starts With a Kiss, ().

    • Service

    Department Service

  • Committee Member for Assurance of Learning Committee 2016 - Present
  • Committee Member for Curriculum Committee 2016 - Present
  • Committee Member for Bentley University Film Festival 2005 - Present
  • Committee Member for Strategic Planning and Public Relations Committee 2008 - 2022
  • Committee Member for Media Production Search Committee 2022 - 2022
  • Other for Creative Writers' Forum Committee 2009 - 2020
  • Committee Chair for Public Relations Subcommittee 2013 - 2017
  • Committee Member for Media and Culture Committee 2006 - 2016
  • Committee Member for EMS General Education Subcommittee 2013 - 2015
  • Committee Chair for Media and Culture Committee 2009 - 2010

    • University Service

  • Special Institutional Assignment for Governance Working Group 2023 - Present
  • Special Institutional Assignment for Bentley Arts Council 2022 - Present
  • Special Institutional Assignment for Course Leaf Implementation Impact Group 2022 - Present
  • Committee Co-Chair for Curriculum Implementation Commitee 2022 - Present
  • Special Institutional Assignment for Digital Media Working Group 2022 - Present
  • Student Organization Advisor for Project CI 2018 - Present
  • Student Organization Advisor for Bentley Student Film Club 2005 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Online (formerly Remote) Learning Task Force 2022 - 2023
  • Special Institutional Assignment for Brightspace LMS Pilot 2022 - 2023
  • Committee Chair for Teaching and Scholarly Activities Committee 2021 - 2023
  • Special Institutional Assignment for Syllabus Proposal Working Group 2022 - 2022
  • Task Force Member for Business/IT Task Force - 2005

    • Professional Service

  • Chairperson for University Film and Video Association 2023 - Present
  • Committee Member for University Film and Video Association 2022 - Present
  • Committee Member for University Film and Video Association 2021 - Present
  • Executive Council, Director of New Media for New York State Communication Association 2003 - 2006