Biography

Dr. Tyler S. Williams is Assistant Professor, General Faculty in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.

Hanna and Barbera: Conversations, Tyler's anthology about television cartoon producers Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, co-edited with Kevin Sandler of Arizona State University, is forthcoming in May from the University Press of Mississippi. Tyler is adapting his doctoral dissertation, “Understanding the Early Television Cartoon,” into a book for a university press. His review of Kenneth Cmiel and John Durham Peters’ book Promiscuous Knowledge in the Journal of Communication Inquiry is “A Cultural History of the Digital Present.”

Tyler researches and teaches on a variety of subjects related to media and culture: animation, television, digital platforms, media theory, cultural history, cinema, genre, advertising, political economy, gender and sexuality, video games, music, and sound studies. He has presented papers at the annual conferences of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the International Communication Association, the Popular Culture Association, and the Society for Animation Studies.