The Celebrity Studies 2024 conference team is proud to announce our fifth and final trend-setting keynotes: Milly Williamson.
Milly Williamson teaches in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published extensively on celebrity culture, including the monograph Celebrity: Capitalism and the Making of Fame (2016). Her work examines aspects of race and gender in media culture and the way that celebrity contributes to normative constructions of gender and race, and the role of celebrity in the expansion of promotional culture. She is currently working on a new book on imperial statues, in the context of myths of empire, race, gender, national belonging.