Biography

Teresa Bergman is a Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific. She has taught for twenty–eight years at the postsecondary level, and her course topics range from documentary film history and communication criticism to film production, and she has professional documentary film production experience. The focus of Bergman’s research is analyzing the changing representations of patriotism, nationalism, citizenship, and gender in U. S. public memory sites. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes rhetoric, documentary film theory, museum studies, memory studies, and critical/cultural studies. These varied theoretical approaches help to illuminate the intersection of location, memory, and representation. She has published two previous books on public memory: Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites (2013) and The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Spa
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