The Estlow Center - Center Director Lynn Schofield Clark

Center Director Lynn Schofield Clark

Lynn Clark

Lynn Schofield Clark is Associate Professor and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver . She is an interpretive sociologist who studies how popular culture and the news media inform identity, family relationships, and societal values. She is the author of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2003/2005), a co-author of Media, Home, and Family (Routledge, 2004), and editor of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace ( Rutgers , 2007).

Her work is also published in several academic journals and edited volumes. Clark's research has been cited in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Boston Globe, Hollywood Reporter, the Independent (U.K.), and in other publications; featured on CNN, NPR, BBC-Radio, and PBS; and has been presented before audiences at Harvard, Oxford, the University of North Carolina, Indiana University, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the American Academy of Religion, the International Communication Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Association of Education for Journalism and Mass Communication, and numerous other national and international venues. She is a former television producer and advocacy journalist who teaches courses in new media, alternative journalism, media history and critical/cultural studies, and qualitative research methods.

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