Paul Booth
BIO
Paul Booth is a professor of Media and Pop Culture in the College of Communication, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Engagement. He received his PhD in communication and rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his MFA in creative writing from DePaul. He researches fandom, games and popular culture. He teaches classes in media studies, television studies, board games, popular culture, and monsters.
He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including Entering the Multiverse (Routledge, 2025), Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader (Bloomsbury, 2023), Board Games as Media (Bloomsbury, 2021); The Fan Studies Primer (University of Iowa Press, 2021); Watching Doctor Who (Bloomsbury, 2019); Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley, 2018); Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (2015, Bloomsbury); Controversies in Digital Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2016); Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2015); and Digital Fandom 2.0: New Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2016; 2010). He has also published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Booth is also the organizer of the annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, where fans and scholars come together in thoughtful discussion of popular culture texts. Past conference topics have included time travel, Disney, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Supernatural, Doctor Who, slasher films and superheroes. The 2026 conference is focused on Pop Music.