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 an 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 on girls' media production, girls' culture, and girls' representation in U.S. film and television. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006), and is currently at work on two book projects: a textbook entitled Power Chords and Groupie Chicks: Studying Gender in Rock Culture; and Making Their Debut: Teenage Girls and the Teen-Girl Entertainment Market, 1938-1966, an industrial analysis of the development of teen-girl media in the United States. Mary's recent essays include: "The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We All Love Buffy" (Undead TV, forthcoming 2007); "Productive Spaces: Girls' Bedrooms as Sites of Cultural Production" (Journal of Children and Media, 2007), and "Birds on the Wire: Troping Teenage Girlhood through Telephony in Mid-Twentieth-Century U.S. Media Culture" (Cultural Studies, 2005).
Mary is founder and director of Cinemakids, a youth-centered screening and workshop program that grew out of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival.
