Faculty Profile

Greg Steirer

Associate Professor of English and Film Studies (2013)

Contact Information

on sabbatical 2024-25

steirerg@dickinson.edu

East College Room 402
717-254-8095

Bio

Professor Steirer is a sociologist interested in the relational practices that shape and define discrete communities. He has published and taught courses on creative labor, media law and regulation, the digital public sphere, media-industry organizations, comic books, television, video games, and horror films. He is the author of The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood, written with Alisa Perren, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Legal Stories: Narrative-based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era (University of Michigan Press, 2024).

Education

  • B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2001
  • Ph.D., 2010