Jenn Brandt, Ph.D.

Dr. Jenn Brandt is Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Previously she was an assistant professor of English and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at High Point University. Brandt holds a PhD in English literature and a graduate certificate in women’s studies from the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University.  

Brandt’s research explores the relationship between contemporary narratives of identity and institutional structures of inequality. She is particularly interested in the ways in which politics shape and reflect contemporary culture. A well-respected scholar and teacher, Brandt has been asked to speak nationally at universities, museums, conferences, and community centers. Her work has appeared in a number of edited collections and academic journals, and she is the co-author of An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Power, and Politics (Bloomsbury 2018).

Dr. Brandt’s current research considers the relationship between cultural representation and digital media with a focus on the rhetorical situation of contemporary women writers and the figure of the feminist as a public intellectual.