Mary Celeste Kearney is an Assistant Professor in the Critical and Cultural Studies and Gender and Sexuality areas of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her graduate seminars include: Feminist Popular Music Criticism; and Feminist Television Criticism; Theories of Gender and Sexuality; and Youth Cultures and Media. Her undergraduate courses include: Gender, Sexuality, and Rock Music; Television Criticism and Analysis; and Women and Media Culture. She is currently working on two books, Producing Girls: Female Youth, Identity Play, and Media Production, and Gender and Rock (an introductory textbook). Some of her publications include: "The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We All Love Buffy," in Red Noise: Critical Writings on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Duke, 2003); "Girls Make Movies," in Youth Cultures: Images and Identities (Greenwood, 2002); "Girlfriends and Girl Power: Female Adolescence in Contemporary U.S. Cinema," in Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State, 2002); "'Don't Need You': Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective," in Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World (Blackwell, 1998); "Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture," in Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Culture (NYU, 1998); and "The Missing Links: Riot Grrrl—Feminism—Lesbian Culture" in Sexing the Groove: Gender and Popular Music (Routledge, 1997). [Adapted from the U. Texas website.]