(08/01/21) M A R Y C E L E S T E K E A R N E Y Department of Film, Television, & Theatre 230 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Gender Studies Program Office: 574-631-1654 University of Notre Dame Mobile: 512-619-6023 Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA [email protected] Current Positions 2015- Concurrent Faculty, Department of American Studies 2013- Associate Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) Concurrent Faculty, Gender Studies Program Previous Positions 2015-2021 Program Director and Director of Graduate Studies, Gender Studies Program, University of Notre Dame (two terms) 2010-2013 Graduate Advisor, Media Studies, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin 2007-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin. Faculty affiliate: Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies 1999-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin. Faculty Affiliate: Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies 1999 Lecturer, Women’s Studies Program, California State University, Long Beach 1997 Instructor, Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, The University of Southern California Education 1998 PhD University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, Division of Critical Studies; Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies 1992 MA Georgetown University, English 1984 BA University of San Diego, Diversified Liberal Arts, Education emphasis, Summa cum laude 1mck (08/01/21) Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards (University of Notre Dame) 2021 Nominee for Marian Mullin Hancock Award for Teaching Excellence in Gender Studies, Gender Studies Program 2016 Katherine Singer Kovács Best Essay Award, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, for “Sparkle: Luminosity and Post-Girl Power Media” (Continuum 29.2 [2015] 263-74) (University of Texas at Austin) 2008 Reddick Fellowship, College of Communication 2007 Lucia, John and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies 2007 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2006 CWGS nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award 2005 College of Communication nominee, William David Blunk Memorial Professorship 2003 Dean’s Fellowship, College of Communication (University of Southern California) 1996 Louise Kerckhoff Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Gender Studies, Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society and Center for Feminist Research 1995 Diana Meehan Fellowship, Center for Feminist Research 1995 Mary Pickford Foundation Scholarship, Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television Grants (University of Notre Dame) 2020 NEH Summer Stipend nominee, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) 2018 Small Henkels Grant (for filmmaker visit: PJ Raval), ISLA 2018 Large Henkels Conference Grant (for Gender Studies Program), ISLA 2017 Copyediting Grant (for The Craft of Criticism), ISLA 2017 Indexing Grant (for Mediated Girlhoods, vol. 2), ISLA 2mck (08/01/21) 2016 Provost’s Distinguished Women Lecture Series Grant (Patricia Hill Collins, for Gender Studies Program), ISLA 2016 Large Henkels Conference Grant (for Gender Studies Program), ISLA 2016 Large Henkels Conference Grant (with FTT co-hosts), ISLA 2015 NEH Summer Stipend nominee, ISLA 2014 Large Research Grant, ISLA 2013 Large Henkels Conference Grant (with FTT co-host), ISLA (University of Texas at Austin) 2009-12 Instructional Development Grants, Building Disciplines Program: Cultural Studies 2009 Course Development Grant, Building Disciplines Program: Cultural Studies 2009 Special Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) 2008 Faculty Research Assignment, OVPR 2006 Special Research Grant, OVPR 2004 Special Research Grant, OVPR 2004 Instructional Development Grant, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies 2002 Special Research Grant, OVPR 2000 Summer Research Assignment, Faculty Development Program Single-Author Books 2017 Gender & Rock. Oxford University Press. 363 pages. Reviewed in IASPM Journal and Popular Music, and Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review. 2006 Girls Make Media. New York: Routledge. 384 pages. Reviewed in Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Collections, Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Communication, and Popular Communication. 3mck (08/01/21) Single-Author Books in Preparation and under Contract Designing the Junior Miss: The Origins of Teen-Girl Entertainment. Contract with the University of Texas Press. Expected manuscript completion December 2021. Edited Anthologies 2018 The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice. Co-edited with Michael Kackman. New York: Routledge. 356 pages. 2018 Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Vol. 2. Co-edited with Morgan Blue. New York: Peter Lang. 244 pages. 2011 Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture. New York: Peter Lang. 320 pages. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Communication, Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Consumer Culture, and Reference and Research Book News. Edited Readers 2011 The Gender and Media Reader. New York: Routledge. 728 pages. Reviewed in Communication Bookworks Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Edited Journal Issues 2021 Co-editor, Special issue on IGSA@ND conference, Girlhood Studies 14.2 (Summer). 1997 Editor, “AUDIOvisual Media” issue. Spectator: USC’s Journal of Film and Television Criticism 17.2 (Spring/Summer). Refereed Journal Articles 2015 “Sparkle: Luminosity and Post-Girl Power Media.” Special Issue on Post-Girl Power: Globalized Media Femininities, edited by Anita Harris and Amy Dobson. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 29.2. 263-74. Kovács Best Essay Award, SCMS. 2011 “When Mad Men Pitches Feminism: Witnessing History through DVD Special Features.” Memory Connection 1.1 (inaugural volume). http://www.memoryconnection.org. 2011 “Tough Girls in a Rough Game: Televising the Unruly Female Athletes of Contemporary Roller Derby.” Feminist Media Studies 11.3 (Summer) 1-19. Opening essay in this issue. 4mck (08/01/21) 2010 “Pink Technology: Media-Making Gear for Girls.” Camera Obscura 74 (25.2) 1-38. Opening essay in this issue. 2009 “Coalescing: The Development of Girls’ Studies.” NWSA Journal 21.1 (Spring) 1-28. Opening essay in this issue. 2007 “Productive Spaces: Girls’ Bedrooms as Sites of Cultural Production.” Journal of Children and Media 1.2 (July) 126-41. Translated and reprinted in Genre en séries (Gender in Series: Cinema, Television and the Media), special issue on “Textual Reception,” forthcoming Fall 2019. 2005 “Birds on the Wire: Troping Teenage Girlhood through Telephony in Mid-Twentieth- Century U.S. Media Culture.” Cultural Studies 19.5 (Sept.) 568-600. 2004 “Recycling Judy and Corliss: Transmedia Exploitation and the First Teen-Girl Production Trend.” Feminist Media Studies 4.3 (Nov.) 265-95. 1996 “Guilty (P)leisures: Notes on Television Use in the Single-Person Household.” Co-authored with Janice S. Gore. Wide Angle 18.4 (Oct.) 50-63. 1995 “Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk.” Spectator 16.1 (Fall/Winter) 82-95. Reprinted in Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality and Media. Eds. Roxanne Samer and William Whittington. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 125-43. Reprinted in Girls’ History and Culture Reader. Eds. Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 300-16. 1995 “Of Fleiss and Men: Notes on the Transgression and Containment of Heidi Fleiss.” Spectator 15.2 (Spring) 8-21. Opening essay in this issue. Reprinted in Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality and Media. Eds. Roxanne Samer and William Whittington. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 199-215. Invited Book Chapters 2020 “Orange Is the New Black: Intersectionality.” How to Watch Television, second edition. Eds. Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. New York: New York University Press. 153-61. 2018 “Melting the Celluloid Ceiling: Training Girl Filmmakers, Revolutionizing Media Culture.” Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Vol. 2. Eds. Morgan Blue and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Peter Lang. 213-31. 5mck (08/01/21) 2018 “Introduction.” Co-written with Morgan Genevieve Blue. Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Vol. 2. Ed. Morgan Genevieve Blue and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Peter Lang. 1-10. 2018 “Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke.” The Craft of Media Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice. Eds. Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Routledge. 1-8. 2014 “Malia Obama, Girl Photographer.” (Chinese translation.) Critical Studies in Communication and Society. Eds. Leslie Regan Shade, Vinny Mosco, and Cao Jin. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House. 445-49. 2014 “Historicize This! Contextualism in Youth Media Research.” Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media. Eds. David Buckingham, Sara Bragg, and Mary Jane Kehily. Palgrave Macmillan. 53-68. 2011 “Introduction.” The Gender and Media Reader. Ed. Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2011. 1-23. 2011 “Introduction: Girls’ Media Studies 2.0.” Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture. Ed. Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Peter Lang. 1-14. 2003 “Girls Make Movies.” Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities. Eds. Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce. Westport: Greenwood