- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Department of Communication, Media and Film
Jessalynn Keller
Office Hours
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Currently Teaching
| W2024 - COMS 371 - Critical Media Studies | ||||||||||
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Research
I am the author of Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age (Routledge 2015), co-editor of Emergent Feminisms (Routledge 2018) and co-author of Digital Feminist Activism (Oxford University Press 2019). My research on digital feminist cultures, girls’ media, and mediated celebrity has been published in numerous journals, including: Social Media + Society, New Media & Society, Journal of Gender Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. I received my Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013.
I am currently completing a SSHRC-funded project (2018 – 2021) that explores the politics of anti-Trump resistances across feminized media cultures. This research has been recently published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and forthcoming (late 2021) in the edited anthology Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture (edited by Michele White and Diane Negra).
My new research/book project (2021 -- ) explores the cultural history of the North American feminist blogosphere from 2005-2015.
I welcome graduate students (both MA and PhD) interested in the following:
- Feminist digital media cultures
- Popular and celebrity culture
- Girls' media and cultures
- Historical and contemporary feminisms
- Social activism and media
I welcome press inquiries on the following:
- Social media, particularly in relation to gender, race, class, and sexual identities
- Sexual violence and the media, particularly in relation to digital media
- Girl and youth cultures
- Contemporary feminisms
- Popular culture and celebrity
New Book Chapters
Keller, Jessalynn. 2021 forthcoming. “Beware the Dancing Communist: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Snap-lash and the Politics of Embodied Joy.” Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, edited by Negra, Diane & and White, Michele. New York: Routledge.
Keller, Jessalynn & Harvey, Alison. 2018. “Kendall & Kylie: Girl Affects, Celebrity, and Digital Gaming in Millennial Girl Culture.” Appified: Culture in the Age Apps, edited by Morris, Jeremy W. & Murray, Sarah, 308-316. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Publications
Book
- Keller, Jessalynn, Mendes, Kaitlynn and Ringrose, Jessica. Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture Oxford University Press, 2019. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn and Ryan, Maureen E.. Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture Routledge, 2018. 250. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. Girls' Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age Routledge, 2015. Print.
Book Chapter
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Crop Tops and Solidarity Selfies: The Disruptive Politics of Girls' Hashtag Activism" Mediated Girlhoods 2 Ed. Blue, Morgan and Kearney, Mary Celeste Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2018. 157-173. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Making Activism Accessible: Exploring Girls' Blogs as Sites of Contemporary Feminist Activism" Girlhood and the Politics of Place Ed. Mitchell, Claudia and Rentschler, Carrie Oxford and Providence: Berghahn Books, 2016. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. ""It's a Hard Job Being an Indian Feminist:" Mapping Girls' "Close Encounters" on the Feminist Blogosphere" Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks, and Cultural Citizenship Ed. Elke Zobl and Ricarda Drucke Germany: Transcript, 2012. Print.
Book Review
- Keller, Jessalynn. Review of Spectacular Girls: Media fascination and celebrity culture by Sarah Projansky Feminist Media Studies, 2015. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. Critical girls: Girl power resisted, review of Growing up with Girl Power by Rebecca Hains Girlhood Studies, 2014. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. Review of New Femininities: Postfeminism, neoliberalism and subjectivity edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff Feminist Media Studies, 2013. Print.
Journal Articles - Non-Peer Reviewed
- Keller, Jessalynn. "This is Oil Country: Mediated Transnational Girlhood, Greta Thunberg, and Patriarchal Petrocultures". Feminist Media Studies (to appear), Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn, Mendes, Kaitlynn and Ringrose, Jessica. "#MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism". European Journal of Women's Studies 52.2 (2018): 236-246. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn and Ringrose, Jessica. ""But then feminism goes out the window!" Exploring teenage girls' critical response to celebrity feminism". Celebrity Studies 6.1 (2015): 132-135. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn, Blue, Morgan, Kearney, Mary Celeste, Pike, Kirsten and Projansky, Sarah. "Mapping new methodological approaches to girls' media studies: Reflections from the field". Journal of Children and Media 9.4 (2015): 528-535. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Keller, Jessalynn. "A Politics of Snap: Teen Vogue’s Public Feminism". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45.4 (2020): 817-843. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "'Oh, She’s a Tumblr Feminist': Exploring the Platform Vernacular of Girls’ Social Media Feminisms". Social Media + Society, (2019). Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn, Mendes, Kaitlynn and Ringrose, Jessica. "Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures". New Media & Society 21.6 (2019): 1290-1310. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn, Kaitlynn Mendes and Jessica Ringrose. "Speaking 'unspeakable things': Documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture". Journal of Gender Studies 27.1 (2016): 22-36. Print.
- Winch, Alison, Littler, Jo and Keller, Jessalynn. "Why "intergenerational feminist media studies?"". Feminist Media Studies 16.4 (2016): 557-572. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Girl power's last chance? Tavi Gevinson, feminism, and popular media culture". Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 29.2 (2015): 274-285. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Fiercely real? Tyra Banks and the making of new media celebrity". Feminist Media Studies 14.1 (2014): 147-164. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Virtual feminisms: Girls' blogging communities, feminist activism and participatory politics". Information, Communication & Society 15.3 (2012): 429-447. Print.
- Keller, Jessalynn. "Feminist editors and the new girl glossies: Fashionable feminism or just another sexist rag?". Women's Studies International Forum 34.1 (2011): 1-12. Print.
Special Issues
- Keller, Jessalynn, Littler, Jo and Winch, Alison. An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities 2016.
Degrees
- PhD - Media Studies
University of Texas-Austin, 2013 - MA - Journalism
University of British Columbia, 2007 - AB (Hons)
University of Saskatchewan, 2005
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