LESSONS FROM SEINFELD Seinfeld really lends itself to an entire course because it had such a huge impact on TV history and culture,” Marshall says. "Students not only learn about TV done well, but also about issues of the 1990s and why this show worked in that context." Conversations, DePaul newsletter, Fall 2015
WAS SEINFELD REALLY ABOUT NOTHING? "Kelli Marshall teaches an entire class on Seinfeld at DePaul University in Chicago. [...]. The class tends to fill up to its 30-student maximum very quickly and has an almost unheard-of retention rate." BBC, June 2015
"When a television show ends, some fans feel sadness or a void in their lives,” Marshall said. “Because they have spent a great deal of time with the onscreen characters/actors, they have formed relationships with them." The DePaulia, October 2014
Q: When students come into your classroom, what would you like them to take away? A: A broad answer: think carefully about what all those moving images before your faces are saying.’ TDYLF, February 2014
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"I was under the impression that I was somehow 'special' and, moreover, that the postdoc world would take advantage of what I had to offer," Kelli Marshall wrote in a recent essay on her blog. "But as we know, that was/is not necessarily the case." Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2012
"And then there’s that fabulous posterior and what Marshall calls Kelly’s “flexible masculine/effeminate star image that allows viewers to read Kelly and his body in vastly different ways — manly athlete, gay icon and subject of sexy heterosexual fan action.’’ NY Post, August 2012
Kelli Marshall, lecturer of media and cinema studies at DePaul University, stopped counting absences four years ago. “This was just way too much work for a large class,” she said. USA Today, May 2012