Deborah L. Jaramillo

Assistant Professor of Film and Television

BS in Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin
MA in Media Arts, University of Arizona
PhD in Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin

Deborah Jaramillo is Assistant Professor of Film and Television. Her research focuses on the collision and coexistence of politics, culture, and aesthetics in media (and particularly in television). Her first book, Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and FNC Made the Invasion of Iraq ‘High Concept’ (Indiana University Press, 2009), approaches cable news coverage from the perspective of film and television studies rather than journalism, and seeks to dispel the notion that the news is somehow divorced from the rest of television programming. She has published articles in Television and New Media and Journal of Communication Inquiry. “It’s Not All Talk: Editing and Storytelling in As the World Turns”—Dr. Jaramillo’s analysis of experimental style in daytime drama—will appear in the forthcoming anthology, The Survival of Soap Opera: TV Daytime Drama’s Histories and Futures. A two-time Ford Fellow, Dr. Jaramillo sits on the board of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI). In addition to being a scholar, she is an avid and unapologetic fan of television, film, and video games.