Andrea McDonnell
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Communication Studies University of Michigan
Brief Biography:
Andrea McDonnell is a media scholar and author whose work examines the intersection of gossip, celebrity, gender, politics, and everyday life. Her (2024) book, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases was recently published by Routledge. She is also author of Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines (Polity, 2014) and co-author, with Susan Douglas, of Celebrity: A History of Fame (NYU, 2019). She is co-editor, with Adam Silver, of A Gossip Politic (Palgrave, 2023).
Professor McDonnell is the U.S. series Editor for Bloomsbury’s International Library of Gender and Popular Culture and member of the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Seminar Group. She holds a B.A. in American Culture from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan.
Area(s) of Expertise:
The history of celebrity in the United States
Gender and representation
The gossip press
Media talk
Awards and Honors:
Summer Institute Grant Recipient Popular Culture Association (PCA)
Howard R. Marsh Fellowship for Research on Journalism and Democracy University of Michigan
Selected Publications:
McDonnell, A. , A. , . (2024) ‘Thanks for being here with us’: Parasocial interaction and the effects of pundit talk on the Hannity and Maddow shows. . Journalism.
McDonnell, A. In Shepherd, L. (Ed.), Gender, violence, and popular culture. .
McDonnell, A. Silver, A. (2023) A Gossip Politic. Palgrave
McDonnell, A. (2020) Clinton stated, Trump exclaimed!: Gender and language on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential debates.. Journal of Language and Politics.
Douglas, S. McDonnell, A. (2019) Celebrity: A History of Fame. New York, NY: New York University Press
McDonnell, A. (2014) Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines. Cambridge / Boston, MA : Polity Press
