Dr. Mary-Lou Galician
(The Original “Dr. FUN”)

Head of
Media Analysis & Criticism

Creator of
REALISTIC ROMANCE ®
The Thinking Person's
Relationship Remedy™

Dr. FUN’s
Mass Media Love Quiz©
and
Dr. Galician’s Prescriptions©
for Getting Real About Romance

(Part of her award-winning research of “The Romanticization of Love in the Mass Media”)

Links for Students, Colleagues, General Public, and Media Representatives:

• Courses Taught (& Theses Directed)
• Award-Winning Research
• Original Programs & Presentations
  
  
• Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz©
• Dr. Galician’s Prescriptions©
  for Getting Real About Romance
• Dr. FUN’s Stupid Cupid & Realistic Romance® Awards™


• Educational Background
• Professional Positions
• Local & National Service
• Major Awards & Honors
• Personal Life
• Biography

REALISTIC ROMANCE® website:
www.RealisticRomance.com

E-mail:
DrFUN@asu.edu

Office:
Stauffer Hall (Communication Arts) A-218
Walter Cronkite School — ASU
Tempe, AZ 85287-1305

Direct Phone: 480-965-5066
Main Office FAX: 480-965-7041

Spring 2007 Office Hours:
M/W=12:00N-2:30 p.m.

COMING SOON—

THE
REALISTIC
ROMANCE®
GURU'S
BLOG & PODCAST!!!

Dr. Mary-Lou Galician (rhymes with “physician” and "prescription") — The Original “Dr. FUN” — is an award-winning mass media researcher, educator, author, and performer with more than 25 years of experience in print journalism, television, public relations, and advertising. She joined ASU’s Cronkite School faculty in 1983 and is founding Head of Media Analysis & Criticism.

She is an internationally respected media literacy advocate whose mission is to empower YOU control (and enjoy!) the mass media — instead of letting the mass media seduce and control YOU.

At ASU, Dr. Galician teaches two empowering media literacy mega-courses that fill quickly every semester (with long waiting lists):

• Mass Media & Society (MCO 120) for nonmajors across the entire university;
• Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media (MCO 473), which she created and for which she wrote the pioneering textbook used in university classes nationwide, Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence (Erlbaum, 2004). The book was honored as a Recommended Resource by the Center for Media Literacy (CML).
  

For her new book, Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications (Erlbaum, 2007), 30 scholars around the country wrote original chapters addressing her Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz© and her 12 Dr. Galician’s Prescriptions© for Getting Real About Romance.

Dr. Galician earned the nickname "Dr. FUN" because of the trademarked musical motivational program she created and presented nationwide: FUN-dynamics!® — The FUN-damentals of DYNAMIC Living. ("F-U-N” is her acronym for "Fired Up Now!") For many years "Dr. FUN" empowered individuals and institutions to beat burn-out, the blues, and the bad news — and get Fired Up Now!

She developed her popular QUIZ — which she has administered on national network television — and her empowering PRESCRIPTIONS from her extensive research of what she calls The Romanticization of Love in the Mass Media. As the central parts of her Dr. Galician's Seven-Step "Dis-illusioning" Directions — a.k.a. Dr. Galician's 7-Step Reality Check-Up© (her unique method of media analysis & criticism coupled with relationship remedy), they form the foundation of her classes, programs, seminars, and books, including the new trade book she is completing for the general public —

Dr. Galician's Prescriptions©
for
REALISTIC ROMANCE®

— How the Media Seduce You
to Want Prince Charmings and Playboy Centerfolds

—AVAILABLE SOON!

Dr. Galician created REALISTIC ROMANCE® — The Thinking Person's Relationship Remedy™ — "to empower men and women (singles and couples) to enjoy spectacular REAL-life happily-ever-afters that are far more thrilling, fulfilling, and fabulous than media fantasies."

Called the nation's REALISTIC ROMANCE® Guru, she "practices what she preaches and teaches": She and her husband, DR. DAVID NATHARIUS — an expert in gender communication and conflict resolution — enjoy a REAL-life happily-ever-after. (The couple have led cultural and performing arts travel study programs to such romantic venues as London & Paris and Rome & Florence. For the Cronkite School, Dr. Natharius teaches MCO 450: Visual Communication. And he frequently partners with Dr. Galician in offering REALISTIC ROMANCE® programs, workshops, seminars, and video presentations on land and even on cruise ships in international waters.)

Her annual Dr. FUN's STUPID CUPID & REALISTIC ROMANCE® AWARDS™ for media portrayals of sex, love, and romance — a media literacy service to focus attention on unhealthy media portrayals and to honor the rare healthy portrayals — are announced each year on Valentine’s Day.

Recipients of the 5th Annual Dr. FUN's STUPID CUPID & REALISTIC ROMANCE® AWARDS™ for 2006 media portrayals of sex, love, and romance — announced on Valentine’s Day 2007 — are listed with their citations of the reasons for the awards.

Dr. Galician served as the guest editor of the September and October 2004 special double issue of American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 48, Nos. 1 & 2), which she devoted to media literacy and called “High Time for ‘Dis-illusioning’ Ourselves and Our Media: Media Literacy in the 21st Century.”

She is also an expert on product placement. She is the editor of and a major contributor to the Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media: New Strategies in Marketing Theory, Practice, Trends, and Ethics (Haworth, 2004) and guest editor of the Journal of Promotion Management's Spring 2004 special double issue (Vol. 10, nos. 1 & 2) devoted to product placement in the mass media. The Handbook has also been translated into Russian (Et Cetera Publishing, 2004), and it has been published in a special edition for the entire Indian subcontinent by Jaico Publishing House (2006).

An entertainer, media personality, and published writer since childhood, she attended the famous Professional Children’s School in New York City. She was awarded the B.A. degree magna cum laude from Long Island University, where she was a Conolly College Scholar, and she holds the master’s degree from Syracuse University, where she was the University Fellow in Broadcasting. She earned her doctorate at Memphis State University (now University of Memphis), with a Clinical Residency in Human Values and Medical Ethics at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences.

She has held media positions as a newspaper columnist, book editor, nighttime television talkshow host/producer, and special events anchor, as well as national executive posts in advertising and marketing.

Dr. Galician has always generously given her time and talent for local and national service. She was the founding national Vice Head and Program Chair of the Entertainment Studies Interest Group (ESIG) of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Media Forum Planner of the 2003 national convention of the National Communication Association (NCA). She has served on the national board of directors of Women in Communication, Inc. (WICI) and was twice named National Outstanding Adviser for her leadership of the ASU student chapter.

She is the donor of the Evelyn-Nancy Galician Memorial Book Scholarship, which she created in honor of her beloved late mother and has awarded annually to a Cronkite School student for the past 17 years.

Dr. Galician was selected as one of only 8 national 2005-2006 JLID Fellows (JLID = Journalism & Mass Communication Leadership Institute for Diversity), co-sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication and the Association of Schools of Journalism & Mass Communication.

The Outstanding Americans Foundation honored her as "Woman of the Year."

Her biography is published in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Entertainment, and the International Authors and Writers Who’s Who.