Jason Mittell is a professor of American studies and film and media culture at
Middlebury College whose research interests include the history of
television, media,
culture, and
new media. He is author of three books,
Genre and Television (2004),
Television and American Culture (2009), and
Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015), and co-editor of
How To Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013).