M.A. Sociology, University of York, England, 1978

M.A. Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada, 1980.

Ph.D. Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1984

Sept 1984 - August 1985, Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Theatre and Communication, University of New Hampshire

Sept 1985 - Present, AssistantProfessor/Associate Professor/Professor
Dept. of Communication University of Massachusetts at Amherst

June 1991 - Present, Founder and Executive Director.
The Media Education Foundation Northampton, Massachusetts

• Social Communication in Advertising: Persons Products and Images of Well-Being (with William Leiss and Stephen Kline) Nelson, Routledge, Toronto & New York: 1986. Second Edition published in 1990. Third Edition published in 2006.
  
  
• The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. Co-published by St. Martin's Press, New York, and Frances Pinter, London: 1987.
  • Paperback edition published by Routledge, New York, in 1990
  • Chinese translation, Yuan-Liou Publishing Co, Taiwan, 1992
  • Portugese translation, Edicoes Asa, Porto, 1995
  • Greek translation, 1998
  
  
• Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream (with Justin Lewis) Westview Press, Boulder, CO: 1992.
  
  
• The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Media, Culture & Politics Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2006.

 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS (Edited)

• Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (with Ian H. Angus) Routledge, New York: 1989

• Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire (with Jeremy Earp) Olive Branch, Northampton, MA: 2004

• "The Modes of Production Debate", in Alternate Routes: A Critical Review, Vol. 3, 1979, pp. 63-93.

• "Probing the Blindspot: The Audience Commodity", in Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2, Spring 1982, pp. 204-210.

• "Art for Art's Sake: Contradictions in the Cultural Marketplace and the Applebaum/Herbert Report", in Studies in Political Economy, 12, Fall 1983, pp. 135-142.

• "The Spectacle of Accumulation: Material and Cultural Factors in the Evolution of the Sports/Media Complex", in The Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 12 No 3, Summer, 1984 pp. 41-57.

• "Magic in the Marketplace: An Empirical Test of Commodity Fetishism" (senior author, with William Leiss and Stephen Kline) in Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory Vol 9, No. 3, Fall, 1985, pp. 1-22

• "The Evolution of Cultural Frames for Goods in the Twentieth Century", (with William Leiss and Stephen Kline)in Marketing in the Long Run: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Historical Research in Marketing. Michigan State University, 1985. pp. 3-17.

• "Watching as Working: The Valorization of Audience Consciousness", (senior author, with Bill Livant) in Journal of Communication Vol 36, No. 3, Summer 1986, pp. 124-143.

• "Advertising as Religion: The Dialectic of Technology and Magic", in Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (eds. Jhally and Angus, 1989) pp. 217-229.

• "The Political Economy of Culture", in Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (eds. Jhally and Angus, 1989) pp. 65-81

• "Media Sports, Culture and Power: Critical Issues in the Communication of Sport", in Media, Sports, and Society: Research on the Communication of Sport (ed. Lawrence A. Wenner) Sage Publications, California: 1989. pp. 70-93

• "On Pluralist Apology" (with Ian Angus, Justin Lewis, & Cathy Schwichtenberg) in Critical Studies in Mass Communication Vol. 6 No. 4. December 1989 pp. 441-449

• "Advertising, Gender and Sex: What's Wrong with a Little Objectification?" Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies (edited by Richard Parmentier and Greg Urban) No. 29, 1989

• "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture" in The World and I July 1990. pp. 506-519. Reprinted in Gail Dines & Jean Humez (eds) Gender, Race and Class in the Media, Sage Publications, California: 1994

• "Sports and Cultural Politics: The Attraction of Modern Sports" (with Bill Livant) in Rethinking Marxism Vol 4, No. 4, Winter 1991. pp. 121-127

• "Tante Notizie, Poca Informazione" ("So Much News, So Little Information". (With Michael Morgan and Justin Lewis. Summary of "The Gulf War: A Study of the Media, Public Opinion, and Public Knowledge") Il Passaggio Vol 4, No. 2, march 1991. pp. 15-20

• "Public Knowledge and Misconceptions" (with Michael Morgan and Justin Lewis) in The Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf - An International Perspective (eds. H. Molwana, G. Gerbner & H. Schiller) Westview Press, Boulder, CO: 1992 pp. 216-233

• "Communications and the Materialist Conception of History: Marx, Innis and Technology" in Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media and Culture, Vol 7, No. 1, 1993

• "MTV, Cultural Politics and the Sex Wars: The Strange and Illuminating Case of Dreamworlds" in Media Information Australia No. 64, May 1992. pp. 48-59

• "Commercial Culture, Collective Values and the Future" in Texas Law Review, Vol 71, No. 4, March 1993, pp 805-814

• "Intersections of Discourse: MTV, Sexual Politics and Dreamworlds" in Reconceptualizing Audiences (eds. J. Cruz and J. Lewis) Westview Press, Boulder, CO: 1994 pp.151-168

• "The Politics of Cultural Studies: Racism, Hegemony and Resistance" (with Justin Lewis) in American Quarterly Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 1994) pp 114-117

• "Affirming Inaction: Television and the New Politics of Race" (with Justin Lewis) in Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order (eds. Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg and Carole Biewener) Guildford Press, New York: 1995 pp. 133-141

• "Advertising" in Social Science Encylcopedia (eds/ Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper) Routledge, London, 1996

• "Stuart Hall" in The Routledge Dictionary of 20^th Century Political Thinkers Routledge, London, 2^nd Edition, 1997, pp. 99-100

• "The Struggle For Media Literacy" (with Justin Lewis) in Journal of Communication, Winter 1998, Vol. 48 No. 1, pp. 1-9-120

• "Free at Last: Fanship, Fascism and Sponsorship" in Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1998 pp. 224-226

• "Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse" in Critical Studies in Media Commercialism (eds Robin Anderson and Lance Strate) Oxford University Press, New York, 2000, pp. 27-39

• "The Triumph of Pragmatism over Imagination: The Defeat of Brazil at the 1982 World Cup Finals", in The Peak, SFU, August 1982.

• Review of Chandra Mukerji "From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism", in The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1985

• "War and the 'Rectification' of Language" in The Voice, University of Massachusetts, February, 1991. p. 12.

• "The Gulf War" A study of the Media, Public Opinion & Public Knowledge" (with Justin Lewis and Michael Morgan). Research Report. Centre for the Study of Communication (Document #P- 8) 1991

• "The Problem of the Ordinary" in Challenging Media Images of Women, April, 1991.

• Interview published in On the Issues: The Progressive Women's Quartlerly, Vol XXI, Winter 1991

• "But TV Needs to Broaden its Images of Black Experience" (with Justin Lewis) Christian Science Monitor Monday, May 11, 1992. p. 18.

• "Comforting Image of 'The Cosby Show' Places Equality at Risk" (with Justin Lewis) in The Los Angeles Times Monday, May 4, 1992, F3.

• Interview published in The Toronto Sun July 26, 1992

• Interview published in Media and Values, No. 57, Winter 1992 ("Television: The Search for Meaning A Media and Values interview wth Cultural Critic Sut Jhally) www.medialit.org/reading_room/article117.html

• "When Justice is Skin Deep: Race and the OJ Simpson Case" in The Observer (London), Sunday, 19th May, 1996

• "Polling Clinton's Appeal" (with Justin Lewis and Michael Morgan) in The Nation, March 9, 1997. Pp.7-8

• "Missing the Mark: The School Shootings and Male Violence" (with Jackson Katz) in The Boston Globe May 5, 1999, P1 Focus.

• "Manhood on the Mat: Professional Wrestling and Masculinity" (with Jackson Katz) in The Boston Globe February 13, 2000, P1 Focus.

• "Put the Blame Where It Belongs: On Men" (with Jackson Katz) in The Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2000, Sunday Commentary, pg. M5

• "On Advertising: Sut Jhally vs. James Twitchell" www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/16/twitchell.html

• "A Conversation with Sut Jhally" www.mergemag.org/2000/Oct9Done/Sutjhally.html

• "Wrestling the WWE" (Imterview with Amy Souza) http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/02august/wrestling.htm

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor:

• Dreamworlds: Gender/Sex/Power in Rock Video, (1990) 55 mins
• Dreamworlds II: Gender/Sex/Power in MusicVideo, (1995) 55 mins
• Dreamworlds 3: Gender/Sex/Power in Music Video (2007) 60 mins
• The Date-Rape Backlash: media and the denial of rape (1994) 55 mins
• Advertising and the End of the World (1998) 47 mins
• Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering (2002) 57 mins
• Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: U.S. News Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) 66 mins
• Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire (2004) 65 mins

• Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco (with Jean Kilbourne and Richard Pollay) 1992 37 mins
• The Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence (with George Gerbner) (1994) 38 mins
• Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap (with Michael Eric Dyson) (1995) 42 mins
• Democracy in a Different Voice (with Lani Guinier) (1995) 48 mins
• Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness (with Jean Kilbourne) (1995) 30 mins
• Stuart Hall on Representation and the Media (1997) 50 mins
• Stuart Hall on Race as a Floating Signifier classroom edition (1997) 60 mins
• Stuart Hall on Race as a Floating Signifier reference edition (1997) 75 mins
• bell hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997) 60 mins
• The Electronic Storyteller: Television and the Cultivation of Values (with George Gerbner) (1997) 30 mins
• The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media and Democracy in the 21^st Century (with George Gerbner) (1997) 30 mins
• The Myth of the Liberal Media (with Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman) (1997) 60 mins
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (with Mary Pipher) (1998) 35 mins
• Edward Said On Orientalism (1998) 34 mins
• Edward Said "The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations" (1998) 60 mins
• Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (with Jackson Katz) (1999) 82 mins
• Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (with Error! Bookmark not defined.) (2000) 34 mins
• Framing an Execution: The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal (2002) 50 mins
• Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006) 50 mins

• Deconstructing Advertising: Making Sense of Consumer Culture (co-writer with Stephen Kline) Simon Fraser University, 1994, 30 mins

• Sexual Harassment on Campus (1995) 35 mins
• Peter Elbow on Writing (1995) 42 mins
• Recovering Bodies: Overcoming Eating Disorders (1997) 34 mins
• Off the Straight & Narrow: Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals & Television (1998) 63 mins
• Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games (2001) 41 mins
• Constructing Public: How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public (with Justin Lewis) (2001) 32 mins
• Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial (2001) 37 mins
• Tommorow's Children: Partnership Education in Action (with Riane Eisler) (2001) 36 mins
• Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music (2001) 45 mins
• Playing Unfair: The Media Imagev of the Female Athlete (2002) 30 mins
• Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The PR Industry Unspun (2002) 45 mins
• Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol (2004) 45 mins
• Beyond the Frame: Alternative Views on the War on Terror (2004) 180 mins
• Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005) 62 mins
• Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006) 45 mins