About the Contributors
Editor
Adrienne Trier-Bieniek,
Ph.D., is the editor of several books focused on gender and culture including The Beyoncé Effect (McFarland Press, 2016), Feminist Theory and Pop Culture (Sense, 2015), and Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (Sense, 2014). She is the author of Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos (Scarecrow, 2013). In addition to numerous book chapters and journal publications, Adrienne has written for the news website Huff Post. She has been interviewed by NBC News, NPR, Reuters, USA Today, The Tampa Bay Times, and the Orlando Sentinel on topics such as violence against women in popular culture to women’s representation in music. www.adriennetrier-bieniek.com
Authors
Esther O. Ajayi-Lowo
is a feminist scholar-activist-teacher with a master’s degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Nigeria; human rights training from the United Nations University, Tokyo; and now a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Having had eleven years professional experience with governmental and nongovernmental organizations on women’s rights and development in Nigeria, her research interests now include ‘global and transnational feminism’ and ‘reproductive justice.’
Chastity Blackenship,
Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Florida Southern College. Her research area interests include race, class, and gender issues within the criminal justice system and within educational media.
Lisa M. Carr,
Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Florida Southern College. She also teaches for the Women and Gender Studies program. Dr. Carter earned her Ph.D. in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include: female criminality, corrections, reintegration, and death penalty issues. She is the co-editor of Female Offenders and Reentry: Pathways and Barriers to Returning to Society. She enjoys cycling, cooking, volunteering, and spending time with her husband and pug.
Ellen Cox,
Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Humanities Division at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Her work focuses on discursive constructions of embodiment, particularly in the context of neoliberalism. Ellen’s research and teaching explore questions of gender, race, sexuality, fat, and disability. Her essay “Don’t Try This at Home: Men on TV, Women in the Kitchen” recently appeared in the volume Food, Masculinities, Home: Interdisciplinary Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Federica Fornaciari,
Ph.D., is full-time Assistant Professor and Academic Program Director for the MA in Strategic Communications in the Department of Arts and Humanities at National University in La Jolla, California. She received a doctorate in Communication with concentration in Electronic Security and Privacy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from Marshall University. Her work revolves around digital identities, frame theory, and media representation.
Sarah E. Fryett,
Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. Her work revolves around feminist and queer theory, as well as philosophy, pedagogy, and media studies. Her recent publications include an analysis of female comedians and an essay on the representation of lesbian identity in Orange Is the New Black. Her forthcoming work, which examines masculinity in the buddy film, will be out in 2019.
Laine Goldman,
Ph.D., is a full-time Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at National University in La Jolla, California. She received a dual Master’s in Film and Telecommunications from Ohio University and a doctorate in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University, Netherlands. Laine is a passionate social scientist interested in media representation, progressive organizational change, communication that empowers, and the new freelance workforce.
Jaime Hartless
is currently a Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia. She examines how the heightened presence of straight people within LGBTQ-oriented social spaces shapes queer individuals’ experiences therein. Her dissertation project focuses on how privilege is experienced within more explicitly political spaces, examining how straight allies and men are incorporated into feminist and LGBTQ activism, as well as how activists navigate the internal privilege hierarchies created by the multiple marginalized identities that many activists hold.
Selina E. M. Kerr,
Ph.D., is a social researcher and criminologist working in the United Kingdom. Her recently published book, Gun Violence Prevention? The Politics Behind Policy Responses to School Shootings in the United States, explores the gun-related policy responses to school shootings. Other research areas of interest are emergency management and communication procedures following mass casualty incidents, profiling and threat assessment in cases of targeted violence and violence and gender representations in television shows.
Ilyse Kusnetz
received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in Feminist and Postcolonial British Fiction from the University of Edinburgh. Until her death in 2016 Ilyse was Professor of English and Creative Writing at Valencia College. Ilyse’s book, Small Hours, won the 2014 T.S. Eliot award for Poetry.
Sonita Moss
is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation study broadly focuses on the Black American community in Paris. Her other research interests include race and media, intersectionality, alternative food movements, and cultural studies. Moss’ first book chapter, “Beyoncé & Blue: Black Motherhood & the Binds of Racialized Sexism” is published in The Beyoncé Effect.
Amanda Pullum,
Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Monterey Bay. She studies social movement strategy and a between social movement organizations. Her work has examined grassroots movements for public schools, marriage equality activism and opposition, the Tea Party, the feminist movement, and the labor movement. Currently, she is investigating historical partnerships between teachers’ unions and non-union organizations. Her research has appeared in Mobilization, Social Currents, and several edited volumes.