Elizabeth Alsop

Academic Director, Communication and Media

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101 West 31st Street, Office 708

New York, NY 10001

Phone: (212) 652-2002

Elizabeth Alsop, Ph.D., is assistant professor and academic director of the communication and media program. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a certificate in Film Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, and has over ten years of experience teaching film and literature at institutions including Queens College and Hunter College, CUNY, and Western Kentucky University. More recently, she served as the assistant director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the Graduate Center, and helped lead the CUNY Humanities Alliance, a Mellon-funded grant designed to improve access to and equity within the humanities.

Her primary research interests include 20th-century American and British literature, narrative theory, and film and television studies. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of Film and Video, The Velvet Light Trap, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Adaptation, College Literature, and Narrative; her current book, forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press, examines the role of character dialogue in the Anglo-American modernist novel. In addition to her scholarly work, she has also written about books, TV, and popular culture for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, The LA Review of Books, The TLS, and Bookforum.  

Recent News

All the Angry Young Women

March 06, 2023

SUNY Press

Dr. Elizabeth Alsop, assistant professor and academic director of the CUNY SPS communication and media program, contributed an essay to the recently published volume Feminists Reclaim Mentorship (SUNY Press, 2023), co-edited by Nancy Miller and Tahneer Oksman. Dr. Alsop's essay is titled "All the Angry Young Women."
CUNY SPS Student Chatting with Advisor in Office

First-Generation Student Series Kicks Off Second Year With College Success Tips and Mentoring Advice

January 06, 2023

Designed for first-generation college students, the two events aimed to provide them with the information and tools to succeed.

The Kingdom Is the Strangest Medical Drama You’ll Ever See

December 19, 2022

The Atlantic

Elizabeth Alsop, assistant professor and academic director of the CUNY SPS communication and media BA program, recently published the article "The Kingdom Is the Strangest Medical Drama You’ll Ever See" in The Atlantic. Her piece explored Lars von Trier's haunted hospital drama, The Kingdom, which premiered in the 1990s but returned for an unexpected third season.

Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellows

May 23, 2022

CUNY Transformative Learning in the Humanities

Three faculty members in the CUNY SPS Communication and Media program have been selected as Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH) Faculty Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Adjunct Assistant Professors Nina Hien and Dino Sossi, along with Assistant Professor and Academic Director Elizabeth Alsop, are among those selected for this cohort. TLH is a three-year initiative to support student-centered pedagogy and foster innovative teaching in the humanities across CUNY.