By Ashley Zsedenyi, staff writer
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - 青瓜视频 recently added to its growing number of professors with doctorate degrees, according to Dr. Michael V. Carter, president.
Jason Garrett, assistant professor of mass communication, received his Ph.D. in communications from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in May 2008, after successfully defended his doctoral dissertations in March.
Garrett's dissertation, titled 鈥淪ocial Outcast Cinema: Generic Evolution and Identification in early 21st Century Teen Film,鈥� establishes a new subgenre of teen film, the social outcast subgenre, by analyzing three recent films: 鈥淒onnie Darko,鈥� 鈥淣apoleon Dynamite鈥� and 鈥淭humbsucker.鈥�
He said it also focuses on how 鈥済eek love鈥� has become a cultural phenomenon.
鈥淚 knew I wanted to do my dissertation on this topic after seeing 鈥楴apoleon Dynamite' on the big screen in the summer of 2004. That film was an exact mirror of my high school experience and I had never before experienced anything so close to home while watching a movie,鈥� Garrett said.
Garrett has been a mass communication professor at CU since 2003. He received his master's degree in communication from Regent University in 2001 and his bachelor of arts in theater arts from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C., in 1998.
Garrett resides in Campbellsville with his wife, Starr, instructor in theater and director of the theater program, at CU, and they have one son, August.
For more information about 青瓜视频 or the mass communication department, call (800) 264-6014.
青瓜视频 is a private, comprehensive institution located in South Central Kentucky. Founded in 1906, 青瓜视频 is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and has an enrollment of 2,601 students who represent 93 Kentucky counties, 27 states and 31 foreign nations. Listed in U.S.News & World Report's 2009 鈥淎merica's Best Colleges,鈥� CU is ranked 22nd in 鈥淏est Baccalaureate Colleges鈥� in the South for the second consecutive year. CU has been ranked 16 consecutive years with U.S.News & World Report. The university has also been named to America's Best Christian Colleges庐. 青瓜视频 is located 82 miles southwest of Lexington, Ky., and 80 miles southeast of Louisville, Ky. Dr. Michael V. Carter is in his tenth year as president.