A leading media scholar will focus on “ESPN Culture” during a free public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State.
Travis Vogan, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa, will present the lecture co-sponsored by the College of Communications and University Libraries.
Vogan is the author of “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (2014, University of Illinois Press) and “ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire” (Forthcoming, University of Illinois Press).
Vogan’s research also has appeared in Convergence, Communication & Sport, International Journal of Sport Communication, Journal of Sport History, Popular Communication, The Moving Image and elsewhere. He is currently writing a cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports.
The Pockrass Lecture was named after the late Professor Robert M. Pockrass, a member of Penn State’s journalism faculty from 1948 to 1977. Pockrass, who specialized in public opinion and popular culture, served as the graduate officer and taught radio news writing for the School of Journalism, which later became the College of Communications.