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. She is the author of Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines (Polity, 2014) and co-author, with Susan Douglas, of Celebrity: A History of Fame (NYU, 2019). 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. Silver, A. A Gossip Politic. Palgrave
McDonnell, A. (2021) In M. Conboy & S. Eldridge (Ed.), From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic. Routledge
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
Selected Presentations:
McDonnell, A. Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Seminar. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK - "Not talking with the candidates: Authenticity and parasocial engagement with Berniemoji and Animal Crossing" July, 2021
