Laura R. Linder and I wrote an op-ed piece about the decline of the sitcom Mike & Molly with plenty of feminism and a critique of the stereotyping of teacher characters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-dalton/a-pratfall-too-far_b_4350354.html

Laura and I are co-authors of the book Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television and co-editors of the anthology The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed.