Carlen Lavigne

Biography

Carlen Lavigne is a communications scholar who specializes in pop culture and critical media studies with a particular focus on gender and sexuality. She is also a former professional editor with experience in government communications, public relations, marketing and technical writing. She combines all of these skills to teach students how to evaluate and envision media for today’s changing sociocultural contexts. She will happily talk to you about TV shows, video games, cover letters and comma splices.

She is the author of Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy: American Television and Gendered Visions of Survival (McFarland, 2018) and Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction (McFarland, 2013), the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Hallmark Channel (Routledge, 2024) and Remake Television: Reboot, Re-Use, Recycle (Lexington Books, 2014) and the co-editor of American Remakes of British Television (Lexington, 2011). 

Her work has been published in multiple collections and journals including Studies in Popular Culture, Cinema Journal, Journal of Popular Television and the Canadian Review of American Studies. 

Education

• Ph.D. (Communications Studies), McGill University
• M.A. (English Literature), Carleton University
• B.A. (English, Honours), Carleton University