Mary Celeste Kearney
Associate Professor
E-mail: mkearney@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.140
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 critical and cultural media studies. She is also a faculty affiliate of UT's Cultural Studies Program as well as the Center for Women's and Gender 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: a textbook titled Power Chords and Groupie Chicks: Gender in Rock Culture; and Making Their Debut: Teenage Girls and the Teen-Girl Entertainment Market, 1938-1966. Mary's recent essays include: "Coalescing: The Development of Girls' Studies" (NWSA Journal, forthcoming); "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 is editor of the Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, forthcoming) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, forthcoming).
Mary is founder and director of Cinemakids, a program for inspiring young media producers, and Faculty Advisor for the 2008 Flow Conference.
She has recently launched a website devoted to girls' media production. Please visit http://www.girlsmakemedia.blogspot.com.
