Faculty and Staff Profile

Briana Pocratsky

Educational Background

Profile

Dr. Pocratsky is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Clemson University. Pocratsky's research focuses on popular culture, identity, and everyday life. As a public sociologist, she enjoys working with communities and has experience writing, programming, and creating discussion spaces for publics.

Research Publications

-Smith, Jason A., Briana L. Pocratsky, Marissa Kiss, and Christian Suero, “Streaming Popular Feminism:
Netflix’s Jessica Jones as Feminist Hero” in Studies in Popular Culture (accepted).
-Pocratsky, Briana L. and Joshua Catalano. “From Ken Burns’ Civil War to History’s Ancient Aliens: Lincoln’s
Unfinished Work on Cable Television” in Lincoln’s Unfinished Work, edited by V. Burton and P. Eisenstadt.
(forthcoming 2021)
-Pocratsky, Briana L. and Joshua Casmir Catalano. “What’s on History?: Tuning into Conspiracies, Capitalism, and Masculinity” in Current Research in Digital History (vol. 3, 2020).
-Smith, Jason A., Briana L. Pocratsky, Marissa Kiss, and Christian Suero. 2019. “The Tough Chick Genre:
Netflix’s Serialized Exposition of Jessica Jones” in Netflix at the Nexus: Content, Practice, and Production in the Age of Streaming Television, edited by T. Plothe and A. M. Buck.
-Pocratsky, Briana L. and Matti Z Pomeroy. 2017. “Breaking it Down: The Construction of Femininity in Just
Dance.” Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children in Popular Culture 8(1): 1-18.
-Best, Amy L. and Briana L. Pocratsky. “Representation” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies edited by D. T. Cook. Sage (2020).