Mary Celeste Kearney
Associate Professor
E-mail: mkearney@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.142
Phone: 512-475-8648
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1998
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film, specializing in feminist media and cultural studies. She is also a faculty affiliate of UT’s Cultural Studies Program as well as the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She currently serves as Secretary for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Mary’s research to date has focused primarily on girls’ media culture. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006), and is currently at work on two book projects: Power Chords and Groupie Chicks: Gender in Rock Culture, and Making Their Debut: Teenage Girls and the Teen-Girl Entertainment Market, 1938-1966. She is editor of the Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, forthcoming) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, forthcoming).
Her recent essays include: “Pink Technology: Media-Making Gear for Girls” (Camera Obscura, forthcoming); “Tough Girls in a Rough Game: Televising the Unruly Female Athletes of Contemporary Roller Derby” (Feminist Media Studies, forthcoming); “Coalescing: The Development of Girls' Studies” (NWSA Journal, 2009); “The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We All Love Buffy” (Undead TV, 2008); and “Productive Spaces: Girls’ Bedrooms as Sites of Cultural Production” (Journal of Children and Media, 2007). She has also written several columns on gender and media for FlowTV.org.
Mary is founding director of Cinemakids, a program for inspiring young media producers.
See also Girls Make Media, Mary’s Web site devoted to girls' media production.
