Mary Celeste Kearney

Associate Professor
Concurrent Faculty - American Studies & Gender Studies
Film, Television, and Theatre

Research Interests

gender, youth, race, & sexuality in critical/cultural film, televison, and popular music studies

Related Courses Taught

Media & Identity; Girls' Media & Cultural Studies; Gender and Rock Culture; Girlhood Studies; Perspectives on Gender

Biography

Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre as well as Concurrent Faculty in American Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011), as well as co-editor of Mediated Girlhoods’ second volume (Peter Lang, 2018) and of The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Routledge, 2018). She is academic editor of the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media, and serves on the boards of several academic journals. She is currently completing her second monograph, Designing the Teenage Girl: Essays on the First Wave of Teen-Girl Entertainment, for the University of Texas Press.