Kathleen Kollman

Biography

Kathleen Kollman completed a doctorate degree in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University in 2020. Her areas of focus include film, media, music, popular fiction, and women’s studies.

She holds a master's degree in English from Wright State University, where she served as a lecturer, and a master's in fine arts in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Kollman's recent publications include “Representation of Female Musicians in Alternative Music Charts: A Pilot Study,” which appeared in Rock Music Studies. Her work on fictional representations of female U.S. presidents in film, television, and literature has been acquired as a monograph, which she is currently adapting from her dissertation. She has a chapter in the book Exploring Severance: Interdisciplinary Considerations of Apple TV's Psychological Thriller, published in 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. Kollman is also the co-editor of the forthcoming collection Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction, which explores romance novels' development in the twenty-first century. Still Reading Romance will be published in April 2025 by Rowman & Littlefield.

Education

• Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies, 2020
• MFA, Seton Hill University, Writing Popular Fiction, 2015
• M.A., Wright State University, English, 2003
• B.A., University of Dayton, Communication Arts, 1997

Research Interests

• film
• media
• music
• popular fiction
• women’s studies

Courses Taught

• AMS 205
• AMS 206
• AMS 207
• MAC 212
• MAC 213
• MAC 461
• MJF 105
• WGS 201
• WGS 301

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Literary and Cultural Criticism: Work as Editor or Co-Editor

• Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor and Josefine Smith, co-editors. Still Reading Romance. Rowman & Littlefield. Under contract as of December 2022.

Peer Reviewed Literary and Cultural Criticism: Single-Author Book-Length Monographs

• Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor. Untitled Book on Fictional Female Presidency (adapted from dissertation). Lexington Books. Under contract as of June 2021.

Peer Reviewed Literary and Cultural Criticism (Articles and Book Chapters)

• Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor. “The Waffle Party is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance.” Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on AppleTV's Dystopian Thriller. Eds. Jennifer Dawes and Nora M. Isacoff. Palgrave Macmillan. In press as of January 2024
•  ---. “Representation of Female Musicians in Alternative Music Charts: A Pilot Study.” Rock Music Studies. 9(2022): 54-69.
• ---. “‘Getting Bi’: Darryl Whitefeather as Bisexual Bellwether.” Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Quality Post-Network Television. Eds. Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts. Syracuse UP, 2021.
• ---. “‘The Sky is Clear and the Moon is Full’: Images of Female Vampires in Music Video.” The Journal of Dracula Studies. 21(2019): 5-28.
• ---. “‘The Mission Comes First’: Representations and Expectations of Labor in Travelers.” Popular Culture Studies Journal. 7(2019): 122-39.

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