Ralph Beliveau

Ralph Beliveau is a Professor for the Gaylord College, affiliate faculty in Film and Media Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. For 2023-24, he serves as a Presidential Teaching Fellow in the Honors College. He writes and teaches about media education and literacy, Horror media, race, documentary, rhetorical criticism, video production, popular culture, & cultural studies. Recent work includes Digital Literacy: A Primer on Media, Identity, and the evolution of Technology 2^nd Edition, Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood, Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking About TV and the Movies, and book chapters on Sharksploitation, Shirley Jackson, Sin-eating, The Wire and the entry for “Documentary” in the Sage Encyclopedia of Journalism.

At the University of Iowa he completed his Ph.D. and a program in Rhetoric of Inquiry, and received a B.S. in media production from Northwestern University. He ran an FM radio and cable television program while teaching at a high school on the Southwest side of Chicago, and worked in L.A. in independent film and television production. He served as editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, chair of the Cultural and Critical Studies division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and chaired the Student Documentary area for the Broadcast Education Association.

He also has taught student groups in Edinburgh, London, Paris, Cardiff, and Arezzo. He has taught about British, French, and Italian popular and media cultures.