Gieseler, Carly

Associate Professor

Performing and Fine Arts

Phone: 718-262-2248
Office Location: AC-1B09
Email: cgieseler@york.cuny.edu

Carly Gieseler holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Voices of #MeToo (2019) and Gender-Reveal Parties as Mediated Events (2020). These texts reflect her teaching and research at the intersection of gender, media, and cultural studies. Her doctoral dissertation, “Performances of Sexuality and Gender in Extreme Sports Culture” led to publications and presentations exploring the performances of resistant femininities and adolescent masculinities in sports culture. As Associate Professor in Speech Communication at York College, she has created and taught courses in Gender and Communication, Sports Communication, and Persuasion and Propaganda. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Dr. Gieseler serves as the Faculty Athletic Representative for York College and the CUNY Athletic Conference.

Curriculum Vitae

Office Hours

Day	Time
Monday	12:30-2:30

Education

Degree	Institution	Field	Dates
PhD	University of South Florida	Communication	2012
MA	Hawaii Pacific University	Communication	2006
BA	Rutgers University	Journalism and Mass Media	2001

Areas of Expertise

Cultural and Media Studies
Gender Studies
Sports Communication

Publications in Field Of Expertise

Books

Carly Gieseler. Gender-Reveal Parties as Mediated Events: Celebrating Identity in Pink and Blue. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 120.

Carly Gieseler. The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 176.

Carly Gieseler. Killing the Vamp: Analyzing the Silent Film Vamp as Gendered 'Other' and Embodiment of the Psychoanalytic Death Drive. Germany: VDM Verlag, 2007. .

Articles

Carly Gieseler. "Learning to Fail: Adolescent Resistance in Extreme Sports." Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 43(4) 2019: 276-295.

Carly Gieseler. "'Raise Her Right': (mis) representing authentic women sports fans in US advertising." Sport in Society. 20(11) 2017: 1765-1779.

Carly Gieseler. "Gender-Reveal Parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue." Journal of Gender Studies. 2017: .

Carly Gieseler. "Pranking Peter Pans: Performing Playground Masculinities in Extreme Sports." Text and Performance Quarterly. 34(4) 2014: 334-353.

Carly Gieseler. "Derby Drag: Parodying Sexualities in the Sport of Roller Derby." Sexualities. 17(5/6) 2014: 758-776.

Carly Gieseler. ""Burke and the End of Days: The Impious Power of Apocalyptic Symbolism as Commentary on Cultural and Social Destabilization”." The Forensic. 95 Summer 2012: .

Chapters

Carly Gieseler. "Sturgis 2.0: Crafting a Filmic-Web Dialogue." In P. Vannini (Ed.), Popularizing research: Engaging new genres, media, and audiences. 2012: pp. 25-30.

Other

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances

"The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar" 2018: International Communication Association, Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Division.

"A Recursive Approach to Writing: First-Year Composition and WI Course Sequence" 2018: Presented at the York College Writing Across the Curriculum Colloquium.

"Legacy at the Edge: Christopher Serrano's Photographic Memento Mori." 2017: National Communication Association, Visual Communication Division.

"Dabbing Against 'the Shield': Cam Newton's Polarizing Performativity" 2016: National Communication Association, Communication and Sport Division - Inaugural Competitive Papers Session.

"Gender-Reveal Parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue" 2016: National Communication Association Convention, Scholar to Scholar Session.

"Embracing Serial Opportunities: Media Dependency and the Podcast Evolution" 2015: National Communication Association, Mass Communication Division.

"Scapeducks: A Burkean Analysis of Changing Redneck Identity" 2015: National Communication Association, Kenneth Burke Society.

"Return of the Repressed Redneck: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Duck Dynasty" 2014: National Communication Association Convention, Association for Psychoanalysis in Communication.

"Who Am Eye: Levels of Intercultural Identity for Blepharoplasty Patients" 2014: National Communication Association Convention, International and Intercultural Communication Division.

"Double Eyelid Surgery, Identity, and Culture" 2014: Asia Transforming Conference,The New York Conference on Asian Studies at Hofstra University.

"Feeding the Masses: Connections of Class and Gender in the Celebrity Chef Era" 2013: National Communication Association Convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division.

"Connections Through Parody: Re-Imagining Sport and Gender through Roller Derby Drag" 2013: National Communication Association Convention, Scholar to Scholar: Bodies and Embodied Communication.

"Burke and the End of Days: The Impious Power of Apocalyptic Symbolism as Commentary on Cultural and Social Destabilization." 2010: National Communication Association Convention, Kenneth Burke Society.

"Exploring the Vampire Queen as a Site of Underlying Violence." 2010: Southern States Communication Association Convention, Popular Communication Division.

"They Only Come out at Night: Contemporary Sideshows and Grotesque Bodies of Change." 2009: National Communication Association Convention.

"Reflexivity of Desire: The Social Construction of Addiction Discourse." 2009: National Communication Association Convention, Social Construction Division.

"The Unending Quest for the Organizational Real: Lacanian Implications for Employee Socialization (Co-authored with Dr. Andrew Herrmann)."" 2009: National Communication Association Convention, Organizational Communication Division.

"The Permanence and Change of Representation: Burke and the Ultimate Act of Death." 2009: National Communication Association Convention, Kenneth Burke Society.

"At the Heart of Violence: Villification and Transformative Evil in Holocaust Cinema." 2009: Central States Communication Association Convention, Top Competitive Papers Division of Graduate Students Caucus.

"Packin’ Heat With Beatrix and Kill Bill: The Violent Film Female as Site of Empowerment and Compliance." 2008: Southern States Communication Association Convention.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships

CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program: 2017-2018.