Ren茅e Pastel is Assistant Professor of Screen Studies in the Communication Department at Boston College. She earned her MA and PhD in Film & Media from University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her areas of specialization include: film and media theory, cultural memory and media, television studies, and transmedia.
Dr. Pastel's research broadly considers the blurring of fact and fiction in contemporary media consumption and its effect on cultural memory. She is currently working on a manuscript examining narrative figures across 鈥淲ar on Terror鈥� media and the ways in which genre conventions serve to mask the fracturing of national identity. Her essay 鈥淗ashtag Television: On-Screen Branding, Second-Screen Viewing, and Emerging Modes of Television Audience Interaction鈥� was included in聽#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sex and Nation聽(U of Michigan Press 2019), and her essay, "The Veteran Reintegrated in聽You鈥檙e the Worst听补苍诲听One Day at a Time" is forthcoming in聽Open Philosophy.
