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Molly Brost joined the faculty at the University of Southern Indiana in August 2009 following a one-year teaching appointment in the English department at Northwest Missouri State University.  She teaches composition and Introduction to Literature at USI.

Dr. Brost received her Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in August 2008.  Her dissertation examines issues of gender and authenticity in the country music biopic.  She also holds an M.A. in English from Colorado State University and a B.S. in Journalism and English from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Dr. Brost’s scholarly work has been published in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-Present).  Forthcoming publications will appear in Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies and in the anthology “Catastrophe and the Cure”: The Politics of Post-9/11 Music.  She has presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association convention and at the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations conference, as well as at other academic conferences. 

Her research interests include the biographical film; narrative and genre; and class issues in film and television.