Andrea McDonnell

Visiting Professor of English

Contact Information

617-735-9870

mcdonnella@emmanuel.edu

Office Hours

Office: Administration Building, Room 430-D

Office hours: Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan; B.A., Vassar College

Bio

I recently completed my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where my dissertation examined the production, content, and audience reception of gossip magazines. Prior to beginning my doctoral work, I served as an educator in fine art and children's museums in the New York area.

What I Love About Emmanuel:

What I appreciate most about Emmanuel is its emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. This is something that I value in my own research and I'm happy to have the opportunity to help students pursue their own ideas, using multiple theoretical and methodological approaches.

Publications + Presentations

Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines

McDonnell, Andrea (2014). London: Polity Press.

Publications:

McDonnell, A. (forthcoming). Book review: Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. Laura J. Shepherd. New York: Routledge, 2013. The Journal of American Culture.
McDonnell, A. (forthcoming). Book review: Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation. Kathleen M. Ryan & Deborah A. Macey (Eds.) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2013. The Journal of American Culture.

Recent Presentations:

2013 - Heroes, Villains, & Transformers: Representing Pregnancy in Celebrity Gossip Magazines
Panel: "Representations of Motherhood in the 20th/21st Century"
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA): Boston, MA
2012 - Celebrity News and the Human Interest Story
Rackham Centennial Symposium: Ann Arbor, MI
2011 - Gossiping In Public: Participation, Deliberation, and the Celebrity Tabloid
Panel: "Wither the Mediated Self?: Fans, Celebrities, Appropriators, and Resistors"
International Communications Association Conference (ICA): Boston, MA

Andrea McDonnell

Visiting Professor of English

Contact Information

Office Hours

Academic Convocation 2013

Student Accomplishments: Fall 2013

Emmanuel Observes Anniversary of Gettysburg Address

Divining Venus

Grant Kuehl '15

What is Academic Convocation?

Why Political Science?

Spencer Deschenes '14

Academics at Emmanuel

Emmanuel Celebrates Graduates, Honorees at 91st Commencement

Peace and Democracy are Predominant Themes of Middle East Week

Student Accomplishments 2012-2013

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