<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/campus-directory/directory-profiles/rubinfeld-mark.html" dsn="campus-directory"><id>1502894</id><title>Professor, Sociology</title><office-hours>Th 3:30–4:30 p.m.</office-hours><about-me>Mark Rubinfeld, professor of sociology and co-chair of Westminster University's Sociology Program, joined Westminster College in 2003 after previously teaching at Loyola University in New Orleans and Assumption College in Massachusetts. A native New Yorker, his advanced degrees include a PhD and M.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut. Specializing in the sociology of popular culture and the author of *Bound to Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy*, Mark's articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the *American Journal of Sociology*, *Journal of American Culture*, *International Journal of the History of Sport*, *Popular Music and Society*, and *Teaching Sociology*.</about-me><interests/><social-media><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.rubinfeld" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facebook</a></social-media><website/><image><img src="/_resources/images/default-source/directory-profile-images/1502894.jpg" alt="Mark Rubinfeld"/></image><areas-of-expertise>Popular culture, film, sports, politics, gender, family, American culture and social inequity</areas-of-expertise><cv> </cv><publications/><awards/><student-success/><department-filter/><DEPARTMENT_FILTERS/></item>