The Celebrity Studies 2024 conference team is proud to announce the fourth of five trend-setting keynotes: Brenda R. Weber

Brenda R. Weber is the Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute and Provost Professor and Jean C. Robinson Scholar in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her books include Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity (2009); Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century (2012); Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender in Transatlantic Reality TV (2014); Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism (2019), and Ryan Murphy’s Queer America (2022). She is presently writing a book with Deborah Jermyn called It’s Never to Late to Live Your Best Life: Celebrity, Aging, and the Transatlantic Rise of Imperative Culture







