Mary Celeste Kearney, a renowed figure in Girlhood studies and associate professor at University of Notre Dame, will be visiting our campus in February! Professor Kearney is the author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006), as well as editor of The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011). Her most recent book, Gender and Rock, was published in August 2017 by Oxford University Press. She is currently completing research for her second monograph, From Nancy Drew to Gidget: The First Wave of Teen Girl Media (UT Press).
Dr. Kearney will do a workshop on February 12 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Cathedral 602 called "Looking Elsewhere: Creative Methodologies in Historical Media Research." She will give a talk on February 13 from 12:30-2:00 p.m. in Cathedral 602. The topic is "Against a Sharp White Background: Toward Intersectional Research in Girls' Media Studies."
Please join us for these exciting events!