As an MA student currently nearing the end of the third of my four semester-long degree, I'm seeking any advice list members might be able to offer regarding universities offering particularly strong programs in the academic study of television. To fill you in on my background and interests, I completed a BA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University in 1999 under Mary Anne Doane, whose work has had a big influence on my subsequent research. After graduation, I spent a number of years working in the television and advertising industries as a digital video editor before returning to academia to undertake a MA in Media and Communications with Philip Bell at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. I'm currently at work on a 30,000 word MA thesis entitled 'Catastrophe Time: Television, Temporality, and September 11' that uses coverage of 9-11 in both Australia and America as a way of theorizing about television and catastrophe's places in the constitution of our sense of the everyday or banal. I'm particularly fond of the work of Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, Ray Williams, John Ellis, Jane Feuer, Margaret Morse, Tania Modleski, and I guess, like so many of those writers, I take my major theoretical orientation from Benjamin. I have experience as a teaching assistant and a part-time lecturer, both in classes focusing on theory and production. In my spare time I enjoy long walks on the beach, restoring 15th century Danish furniture, and playing tennis with my cat. Anyway, based on the above interests and my background, I was wondering if any of you might be able to point me in the direction of a program that you might suspect would suit me. Using the screen site as a starting point I've already begun my search, but I figured that as you all would be bound to have valuable insight into the what's out there. Any feedback would greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time, Max Dawson School of Media and Communications University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org