DeKALB | “Game of Thrones” may be over for the season, but Media Studies Professor Jeffrey Chown is working to publish a bibliography based on the series by next year.

Chown, who teaches TV theory and criticism classes that revolve around a popular TV show, will list scholarly work and material about topics in “Game of Thrones” such as gender and sexuality in the bibliography.

After publishing a bibliography with Oxford Press last year about popular Hollywood Screenwriter Francis Coppola, Chown hopes to publish the bibliography about “Game of Thrones” on Jan. 15, 2017.

Chown taught a graduate course about “Game of Thrones” during the spring 2016 semester, which helped inspire the bibliography and led to the creation of ScholarsOfTheThrone.com. The website is a collection of 13 graduate student blogs, bibliographical annotations and other materials used to study the show, according to the website.

“We did a lot of research on the bibliography and about ‘Game of Thrones’ and all those students did blog [about it],” Chown said. “I’m really excited about [getting it published].”

Chown said he wants his students to understand how TV has grown into a more prominent art form.

“I was interested in how TV has changed into what I call the long form,” Chown said. “It’s more like a novel now. Television is a more serious art form now. It used to be a great American wasteland, now it’s the more dominant form.”

A typical day in Chown’s class consists of students creating blogs about the TV show chosen that semester, creating a product that is similar to a TV column.

“[In] the class I’m teaching right now, the students are learning how to blog about television [show “The Wire”],” Chown said. “[In] the first couple of classes, we’ve been concerned with getting them to set that up and what kind of product we’re looking for and how they should approach writing a regular column on a television show.”

Student Aymee Borns, who took Chown’s “Game of Thrones” course stated she enjoyed the project.

“While I have seen every episode of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones at least one time through, I am beyond excited to share the experience of critically examining the series,” Borns said in a blog post.

Chown said he teaches about the importance of TV show analysis given that TV is rising as a dominant art form.

“We used to think of film as being the most important art form,” Chown said. “I think, in a lot of ways, television has replaced it, and I’m just interested in studying what makes up that new art form. I remain curious and excited about trying new things. I’m thinking about maybe doing Showtime next semester.”