Education
PhD, Communication, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
MA, Communication, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
BA, Communication Arts, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Selected Publications
Reinhard, C. D., & Olson, C. J. (2024). #blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement. Celebrity Studies, 15(1), 55–72. DOI: .
Reinhard, C. & Olson, C. (2023). Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandoleros. In J. Gulam, F. Elliott & S. Feinstein (Eds.), Full-Throttle Franchise: The culture, business and politics of Fast and Furious, 103-120. Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from .
Reinhard, C. (2022). Eating Nuts, Kicking Butts, and Becoming a Feminist Icon: Squirrel Girl’s subversion, commodification, and fractured feminist nature. In B. Carr & M. Carstarphen (Eds.), Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces. The Ohio State University Press. Retrieved from .
Reinhard, C. (2022). A Conversation on the History of Paradigmatic Dialogue in Communication Theory: Brenda Dervin and the 1985 ICA Conference. In Y. Miike and J. Yin (Eds.), The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory (1st ed.). Routledge. Retrieved from .
Reinhard, C. (2021). Being the Elite (Jackson & Jackson, 2016-Present). In S. Bacon (Ed.), Transmedia Cultures: A Companion. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang Verlag. Retrieved from .
Selected Presentations
Reinhard, C. D. (2021, June). When the rebel heart met the blackheart: Shipping the professional wrestlers Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association.
Reinhard, C. D. (2020, October). Kayfabe and the reality of a pandemic: Empty arena matches and fan entanglement in professional wrestling. Midwest PCA/ACA, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reinhard, C. D. & Stanley, D. (2020, October). Fans of Q: Online conspiracy QAnon as political fandom. Midwest PCA/ACA, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reinhard, C. D. (2020, April). When the rebel heart met the blackheart: Shipping the professional wrestlers Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. WrestlePosium I, Professional Wrestling Studies Association.
(2020). Fan Studies Network North America, Virtual. Salon title: So, This is How Liberty Dies, With Thunderous Applause: Fandom, Politics, Public Discourse and Democracy.
Selected Conferences
(2020). Midwest PCA/ACA, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(2019). Midwest PCA/ACA, Cincinnati, Ohio
(2018). Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2017). Central States Communication Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(2016). Midwest PCA/ACA, Chicago, Illinois
Awards and Grants
(2019). Top Poster Award, Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, Washington, D.C.
(2018). Faculty Development Committee Summer Stipend
(2017). Top Panel Award, Media Studies Interest Group, Central States Communication Association Annual Conference
(2015). Academic IT Special Equipment Grant
(2015). Faculty Development Committee Summer Stipend