Dr Hannah Spaulding

Personal Statement

Hannah Spaulding is a Lecturer in Digital Screen Studies in the Department of Communication and Media. Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, she worked as a Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of Lincoln. She held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship with Concordia University’s Media History Research Centre and received her PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern University.

Her research explores histories of technology and domesticity, with a focus on television, gender, and surveillance. Her current book project examines the history of “useful television” in the American home throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. She is also working on a project on the histories of home surveillance technologies, concentrating currently on the baby monitor.