Below is a list of currenlty confirmed conference participants, composed of individuals invited by roundtable conveners and by the conference organizing committee. Roundtables also will include members who have submitted abstracts based on the conference CFP. We will continue to update this list as we receive confirmations.

1. Television as an Advertising Medium
   participants: Neal Burns (University of Texas at Austin), Harper Cossar (Georgia State University), David Gurney (Northwestern University), Alexander Russo (Catholic University), Spencer Downing (University of Central Florida) moderator: Nick Marx (University of Texas at Austin)
2. Consumers, Recording, and Playback in the Television and Recording Industries
   Tim Anderson (Denison University); participants: Andy Langer (Austin Chronicle, music critic), Scott Romig (Dexter Freebish, music producer and musician), Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University), Patrick Burkart (Texas A&M University), Sam O'Connell (Northwestern University), Kevin John Bozelka (University of Texas at Austin), moderator: Afsheen Nomai (University of Texas at Austin)
3. Public Sphere, Public Media in an Open Source Age
   participants: Martha Fuentes (University of Texas/Austin Freenet), Jelena Karanovic (New York University), Helen DeMichiel (Co-Director, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture), Patricia Zimmerman (Ithaca College), Misha Kavka (University of Auckland), Leonardo Aristimuno (Rutgers University), moderator: Ana Boa-Ventura (University of Texas at Austin)
4. The Uses and Meanings of Television History
   Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia); participants: Ruta Abolins (University of Georgia Libraries Media Archives), Charles Ramirez-Berg (University of Texas at Austin), Laura Levitt-Gamis (Columbia College), Doug Battema (Western New England College), Mary Jeanne Wilson (University of Southern California), Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), moderator: Jacqueline Vickery (University of Texas at Austin)
5. De-Westernizing Television Studies
   participants: Timothy Havens (University of Iowa), Tasha Oren (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Olivier Tchouaffe (University of Texas at Austin), Jaime Nasser (University of Southern California), Stephanie DeBoer (University of Southern California), moderator: John Jirik (University of Texas at Austin)
6. Watching Television Off-Television
   Jonathan Gray (Fordham University), Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), Will Brooker (Kingston University); participants: Joel Greenberg (GSD&M), Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Daniel Chamberlain (University of Southern California), moderator: Susan Broyles (University of Texas at Austin)
7. Mainstream Television and Alternative TV Practices
   participants: Joy Fuqua (Tulane University), Julia Lesage (University of Oregon), Jackie Cook (University of South Australia), Tangi Steen (University of South Australia), Dana Heller (Old Dominion University), Geoffrey Baym (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), moderator: Elizabeth Hansen (University of Texas at Austin)
8. Television's Future and the Role of TV Scholarship
   John Hartley (Queensland University of Technology); participants: Andrew Garrison (University of Texas at Austin), Shawn Shimpach (University of Massachussetts-Amherst), Stephanie Tuszynski (University of Toledo), Avi Santo (Old Dominion University), Espen Ytreberg (University of Olso), moderator: Jennings Doyle (University of Texas at Austin)
9. Technologies of Transport and Communication
   James Hay (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign); participants: Paul Stekler (University of Texas at Austin), Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), Jeremy Packer (North Carolina State), Sarah Sharma (University of North Carolina), Greg Siegel (University of California-Santa Barbara), moderator: Rebecca McInroy (University of Texas at Austin)
10. Televisual Representations of Gender and Genre after Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Heather Hendershot (Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center) and Allison McCracken (DePaul University); participants: Joe Wlodarz (University of Western Ontario), Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Texas at Austin), Cindy Conaway (Bowling Green State University), Emilie Zaslow (Pace University), Vered Pnueli (Brunel University), Cindy Conaway (Bowling Green State University), Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), moderator: Allison Wright Munro (University of Texas at Austin)
11. Selling To and Through Racial Identities in Contemporary Television
    L.S. Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz); participants: Madhavi Mallapragada (University of Texas at Austin), Felicia Henderson (producer/writer for Moesha, Soul Food), Mary Beltran (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kelly Cole (Middlebury College), John Downing (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), moderator: Marnie Binfield (University of Texas at Austin)
12. Teaching Television
    Derek Kompare (Southern Methodist University); participants: Chuck Kleinhans (Northwestern University), Kathleen Tyner (University of Texas at Austin), Bernard Timberg (East Carolina University), moderator: Mattie Akers (University of Texas at Austin)
13. Global Television and Globalizing Television Studies
    Shanti Kumar (University of Texas at Austin), Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin); participants: Serra Tinic (University of Alberta), Vinicius Navarro (Methodist University of Sao Paolo), moderator: Sharon Shahaf (University of Texas at Austin)
14. Radical Television
    Dan Leopard (University of Southern California); participants: Eric Paulus (Austin IndyMedia), Karen Beavers (University of Southern California), Ernie Larsen (Media Critic/Fiction Writer), Sherry Millner (College of Staten Island/CUNY), Margo Miller (Northwestern University), moderator: David Uskovich (University of Texas at Austin)
15. Participatory Political Cultures
    Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles); participants: Mobina Hashmi (Brooklyn College); John Turner (Goucher College), Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University), Jonathan Nichols-Pethick (DePaul University), Kelly Kessler (Queens College-CUNY), Todd Fraley (East Carolina University), moderator: Katherine Haenschen (University of Texas at Austin)
16. Diversity and Cultural Production Communities
    Vicki Mayer (Tulane University), Sharon Ross (Columbia College); participants: Belinda Acosta (Austin Chronicle), John Caldwell (University of California, Los Angeles), Michela Ardizzoni (University of Louisville), Miranda Banks (University of Southern California), Spencer Nutting (independent media producer), moderator: Jean Lauer (University of Texas at Austin)
17. Television Studies and Television Policy Regulation
    John McMurria (DePaul University); participants: Jennifer Proffitt (Florida State University), Cynthia Chris (College of Staten Island/City University of New York), Philip Napoli (Fordham University), Minna Aslama (Fordham University), Jennifer Holt (University of California-Santa Barbara), moderator: Allison Perlman (University of Texas at Austin)
18. Feminist Television and Feminist Television Studies
    Tara McPherson (University of Southern California); participants: Barbara Corday (co-creator/writer/producer, Cagney and Lacey), Amelie Hastie (UC Santa Cruz), Susan Douglas (University of Michigan), moderator: Alexis Carreiro (University of Texas at Austin)
19. HBO's Legacy and Future
    Walter Metz (Montana State University, Bosman); participants: Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan), Steve Carr (Indiana University), Lisa Schmeiser (TV Without Pity), Lynn Zook and Gale Franko (savecarnivale.org), Jeffrey Jones (Old Dominion University), Dana Polan (New York University), moderators: Peter Alilunas (University of Texas at Austin) and Kristen Lambert (University of Texas at Austin)
20. Roundtable 20, “Globalizing TV Studies,” has been combined with Roundtable 13. The new panel is called “Global Television and Globalizing Television Studies”
21. Taste and Television
    Jason Mittell (Middlebury College); participants: Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham), Louisa Stein (San Diego State University), Ronald Becker (Miami University), Greg Smith (Georgia State University), Matt Sienkiewicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison), moderator: Julia Baron (University of Texas at Austin)
22. Television as 'Cultural Center' in an Age of Audience Segmentation
    Horace Newcomb (University of Georgia); participants: David Marc (Syracuse University), Michael Kackman (University of Texas at Austin), David Thorburn (M.I.T.), Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), Victoria Johnson (University of California—Irvine), Allen Larson (Pennsylvania State University), moderator: Tariq Elseewi (University of Texas at Austin)
23. Reality TV, Governmentality, and Citizenship
    Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), James Hay (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign); participants: Janet Davis (University of Texas at Austin), Paul Stekler (University of Texas at Austin), Gareth Palmer (University of Salford), Mark Andrejevic (University of Iowa), Jack Bratich (Rutgers University), Leigh Edwards (Florida State University), moderator: Caitlin Collins (University of Texas at Austin)
24. Media Professionals with Media Studies Degrees
    Thomas Schatz (University of Texas at Austin); participants: Jordan Levin (former CEO, WB network), Justin Wyatt (ABC Television Network), Richard Lewis (University of Texas at Austin), Jonathan Estrin (AFI), Nate Kohn (University of Georgia), moderator: Bryan Sebok (University of Texas at Austin)
25. Programming in an Era of Video Abundance
    Sharon Strover (University of Texas at Austin); participants: Alisa Perren (Georgia State University), Max Dawson (Northwestern University), Michele White (Tulane University), Melissa Click (University of Missouri), Kristina Busse (University of South Alabama), moderator: Jennie Phillips (University of Texas at Austin)
26. Political Resistance and the Media
    Frederick Wasser (Brooklyn College, CUNY); participants: Megan Boler (University of Toronto), Ying-Ying Chen (University of Texas at Austin), Sue Collins (New York University), Marion Wrenn (New York University), Jyotsna Kapur (Southern Illinois University), moderator: Amy Nathan Wright (University of Texas at Austin)
27. New Technologies
    Judd Ruggill (University of Arizona), Ken McAllister (University of Arizona); participants: Christopher Hanson (University of Southern California), Lou Rutigliano (University of Texas at Austin), Caitlin Benson-Allott (Cornell University), moderator: Carly Kocurek (University of Texas at Austin)
28. Academic Publishing in the Digital Age
    Avi Santo (Old Dominion University); participants: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College), Christopher Lucas (University of Texas at Austin), Erin Hill (University of California-Los Angeles), Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College), Marnie Binfield (University of Texas at Austin), Matt Payne (University of Texas at Austin), moderator: Namsu Park (University of Texas at Austin)