Celebrity Studies Journal Conference

The 2024 Conference Team is proud to announce that we have five leading celebrity studies scholars presenting a keynote lecture in Amsterdam.

Nandana Bose has published on gender, stardom and celebrity cultures in the context of the Bombay film industry, film censorship, and right-wing interventions in 1990s popular Hindi cinema in such refereed journals as Cinema Journal, Celebrity Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Velvet Light Trap, Studies in South Asian Film and Media and Senses of Cinema; and in edited volumes such as World Cinema on Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution (2022), Indian Film Stars (2020), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World (2013) and Figurations in Indian Film (2010). She has received awards and grants from such scholarly organizations as Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Association for Asian Studies (AAS). She is a former Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, the author of the BFI Film Star series monograph Madhuri Dixit (2019), and an editorial board member of Celebrity Studies. Her most recent research on the transformation of celebrity cultures in the digital era of global streaming services in post-pandemic India is forthcoming in the edited volume Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age (2024).

Erin A. Meyers is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA. She has published multiple articles on the intersections of celebrity, new media, and audience cultures in journals such as Celebrity Studies, New Media & Society, and JCMS, as well as two books on contemporary celebrity cultures, Dishing Dirt in the Digital Age: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Participatory Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2013) and Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Rise of Reality Television Celebrity (Rutgers University Press, 2020). She is currently co-editor of the journal Celebrity Studies.

Anthea Taylor is an Associate Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of four monographs, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016) and Postfeminism in Context (with Margaret Henderson, 2019), and co-editor of two collections, including Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture (with Joanna McIntyre, 2020). Her research on Germaine Greer will be published by Routledge in 2024.

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

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.