Elana Levine joined the Journalism and Mass Communication faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Fall 2002. Before she earned her Ph.D. in media and cultural studies, she worked in public relations, advertising, and corporate video production. She has published articles on soap opera production, on U.S. Spanish-language television, and on feminine hygiene advertising in such journals as Critical Studies in Media Communication, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, and The Velvet Light Trap. She is co-editor (with Lisa Parks) of Red Noise: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Critical Television Studies (forthcoming, Duke University Press). Her current research is a book-length cultural history of sex and U.S. television in the 1970s. She is also developing research projects on the cultural politics of media conglomeration and the history of U.S. Spanish-language television. [adapted from her UWM webpage]