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Media Studies

Jennifer Brundidge
Wenhong Chen
Caroline Frick
Jennifer Fuller
Lalitha Gopalan
Steve Jennings
Michael Kackman
Mary Celeste Kearney
Peter Kovacs
Shanti Kumar
Derek Lackaff
Erin Lee
Madhavi Mallapragada
Susan McLeland
Bruce Pennycook
Anne Peterson
Charles Ramirez Berg
America Rodriguez
Kevin Sanson
Tom Schatz
Laura Simmons
Janet Staiger
Laura Stein
Joe Straubhaar
Sharon Strover
Kathleen Tyner
S. Craig Watkins
Karin Wilkins
 

Production & Screenwriting

Ben Bays
Kat Candler
Steven Dietz
Tim Dittmar
Andrew Garrison
Ruxandra Guidi
Kyle Henry
Don Howard
Stuart Kelban
Susan Kelly
Dan Knight
Karen Kocher
Samantha Krukowski
Anne Lewis
Deb Lewis
Richard Lewis
Geoff Marslett
Steve Mims
Bruce Pennycook
John Pierson
Ed Radtke
Charles Ramirez Berg
PJ Raval
Nancy Schiesari
Andrew Shea
Alex Smith
Kathie Smith
Ellen Spiro
Paul Stekler
Allucquere Rosanne Stone
Tom Willett

Mary Celeste Kearney

Associate Professor

Mary Celeste Kearney

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.

    

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