Associate Professor of English, Texas State University
Katie Kapurch is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University. Katie specializes in icons and the iconic, especially popular phenomena at the intersection of literature, music, and film.
Forthcoming books include "The Mermaid as Pop Icon: From Siren Song to Disney and Barbie' and 'The Disneyfication of Pop: Disney Plus Beatles, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift' (both with Bloomsbury).
Other books include 'How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- and Sang Back to Them Ever Since (November 2023), which is supported by a major award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the monograph 'Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture' (2016). Katie has also co-edited two collections, 'New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles' (2016) and 'The Beatles and Humour' (2023).
In addition to these books, Katie has authored many articles and chapters about visual and narrative representations of gender, sexuality, and race in popular culture, including Disney, the Beatles, Twilight, and other major phenomena.
Katie serves as co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal AMP: American Music Perspectives.