Rusty Hatchell
Visiting Lecturer, Film and Media StudiesBiography
Rusty Hatchell (he/him) is a Visiting Lecturer of Film and Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. He recently defended his dissertation, “Mapping the Multiverse: Narrative Continuity and Industrial Logics in the Shared Television Universes of DC’s Superheroes, 1992-2022,” which studied DC Comics’ expansion into television from 1992 to 2022 to examine how shared universes have been emerging as a guiding principle of the media industries, influencing production and distribution strategies from network and cable television to streaming platforms.
His scholarly work has appeared in Middle West Review, the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, In Media Res, and the edited collection After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen.
Education
Ph.D.
Media Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2024
M.A.
Media Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2018
B.A.
English
Georgia Gwinnett College
2016
Scholarly Interests
television studies, television history, media industries, post-network television, Conglomerate Hollywood, media franchises, transmedia storytelling, streaming media, global media, film history, film studies
Courses
History of Film
Seminar in Film Studies
Staff Publications
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2023 “‘We Prefer Protégé’: The Temporal Function of Sidekicks in Young Justice and Titans.” The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12, no. 1 (2023): 83-97. View
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2022 “‘Who Watches the Watchmen’: Situating HBO’s Watchmen as (Post)quality Television.” In After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen, edited by Drew Morton, 115-28. Jackson, MS: U Press of Mississippi, 2022. View