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Ralph Beliveau

University of Oklahoma
Professor
Dr. Beliveau is the Area Head for Creative Media Production and Professional Writing at the University of Oklahoma and affiliate faculty in both Film and Media Studies and Women and Gender Studies. He writes and teaches about media education and literacy, race, horror media, documentary, rhetorical criticism, video production, film, popular culture, music & cultural studies, and documentary theory production & history. He co-wrote Digital Literacy: A Primer on Media, Identity and the Evolution of technology, 2nd Edition (2023), and co-edited Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood (2022), which was awarded a 2023 “Choice” Outstanding Academic Title and Top 75 Community College Title from the American Library Association. He also co-wrote Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and Movies (2023), and International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear (2017). He has written about network society, women in horror, documentary rhetoric, The Wire, African American noir, Alex Cox, Supernatural, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, and Paolo Freire and media literacy. He served as editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, chair of the Cultural and Critical Studies division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and chair of the Student Documentary Competition for the Broadcast Education Association. Beliveau is part of the team of faculty who leads the British Media Tour annually and also taught Italian Popular Film and Literature in the Journey to Italy program in Arezzo. Beliveau earned his B.S. from Northwestern University and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.