Megan Boler teaches courses in philosophy, social and feminist theory, and media studies. She is also an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Knowledge Media Design Institute and the Center for the Study of United States. Her books include Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT forthcoming April 2008), Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silences (Peter Lang 2004), and Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (Routledge 1999). She is currently working on a three-year SSHRC funded research project on “Rethinking Media, Democracy and Citizenship: New Media Practices And Online Digital Dissent After September 11.” She co-produced a study guide to accompany the documentary The Corporation (dirs. Achbar and Abbott 2003), and her essays have been published in such journals as Educational Theory, Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Her multimedia website Critical Media Literacy in Times of War is widely used.

She also blogs here.

Here is a talk Megan gave at Newcomb College Institute in 2009.