Academic Trajectory
Learn About Me and My Work
Publications
Articles
“‘I’m Not a Girl,’ ‘I’m Just Ken:’ Gender, Agency, and Commodity in Barbie and Crossroads.” Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Popular Culture, revisions submitted.
Book Reviews
Burrell, Kathryn. 2024. “Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism" Journal of Popular Culture, July 1. doi:10.1111/jpcu. 13366.
Burrell, K. (2024). “Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2024.2320617
Works-In-Progress:
Books
Streaming the MCU: Disney+ and Genre in Theatrical Cinema, an anticipated book.
Articles
“Greek Tragedy as Cinematic Genre.” In revision, anticipated article submission.
“Cinematic Genre in Streaming to Theatrical Transmedia Storytelling: Loki and Deadpool and Wolverine.” In progress, anticipated article submission.
“Rom-Com Genre and Political Polarity on Tiktok,” anticipated article submission.
Conference Presentations
Greek Tragedy and the Limits of Cinematic Genre. Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Atlanta, GA, April 2026.
Materialists and the Rom-Com: Polarized Genre Readings in TikTok. Society for Cinema and Media Studies; Chicago, IL, March 2026.
Hollywood, Marvel, and Streaming: Transmedia Tactics Transforming Cinematic Genre Theory.
The Hollywood Conference; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, July 2025.
"‘I’m Not a Girl,’ ‘I’m Just Ken:’" Gender, Agency, and Commodity in “Barbie” and “Crossroads.”
Blockbuster Futures Conference; University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, October 2024.
“'I’m Not A Girl,” “I’m Just Ken:'” An Analysis of "Crossroads" (2002) and "Barbie" (2023).
Popular Culture Association, Chicago, IL, March 2024.
Historiography in the Film Archive: Making New Conclusions About The American Immigration Film.
Cultural Studies Association, Fairfax, VA, June 2023.
From Shield to Ass: Reassessing the Captain America Complex through Contemporary Films and Television.
Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2023.
Genre Fluidity: Applying American Methodology to Agnes Varda. Southwest American/Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2021.