Vincent Doyle is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Academic Director of the Master in Visual Media Communication at IE School of Communication, IE University (Spain). Originally from Ottawa, Canada, he holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), and a Master’s degree in Communication from McGill University, Montreal (Canada). He is a Fellow of the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the US Social Science Research Council (2000) and has received two top paper awards from the International Communication Association.  A book based on his dissertation--about the media activism of the U.S.-based Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)--is under contract with New York University Press. Prior to his appointment at IE University, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota (USA).