by Mary Celeste Kearney
about Mary Celeste Kearney
Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock, editor of The Gender and Media Reader and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, and co-editor with Morgan Blue of Mediated Girlhoods’ second volume and with Michael Kackman of The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice.
Orange Is the New Black
Abstract: Like all human beings, television characters are intersectional, meaning that each of the identity categories ascribed to and performed by them, such as race, gender, age, and sexuality, are interdependent and thus mutually informing. In this essay, Mary Celeste Kearney demonstrates the use of intersectional television analysis via a close study of one episode and one character from Orange Is the New Black.