Brenda R. Weber

Brenda R. Weber

Provost Professor, Gender Studies

Director, College Arts and Humanities Institute

Jean C. Robinson Scholar, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Research of Race and Ethnicity in Society

Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies

Affiliate Faculty, English

Affiliate Faculty, The Kinsey Institute

Affiliate Faculty, The Media School

Education

  • Ph.D., Miami University (Oxford), 2001

About Brenda R. Weber

My work engages with a wide archive of mostly discredited cultural texts, including non-canonical 19th-century transatlantic women's literature and contemporary media, specifically literature, film, and television. As it relates to these texts I have particular interest in how identity is discursively gendered, constructed, and embodied through written and mediated means, as well as how gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class work together to inform notions of the "normative" self. Celebrity, masculinity, and American religious cultures have become important themes, offering a framework for coherency across the many modalities in which I work.

Books

Reality Gendervision
Reality Gendervision

Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television

Brenda R. Weber
2014

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

Brenda R. Weber
2012

Makeover TV
Makeover TV

Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

Brenda R. Weber
2009

Latter-day Screens
Latter-day Screens

Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism

Brenda R. Weber
2019

Book chapters

Imperialist Projections
Imperialist Projections

Manners, Makeovers, and Models of Nationality

Brenda R. Weber, Melanie Waters
2011

The Incredible Invisible Woman
The Incredible Invisible Woman

Age, Beauty, and the Specter of Identity

Brenda R. Weber
2021

Published Articles, Selected

Reality Moms, Real Monsters
Reality Moms, Real Monsters

Transmediated Continuity, Reality Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque

Brenda R. Weber
2015

"I Will Get Domesticated After Awhile"
"I Will Get Domesticated After Awhile"

Rhetorics of Gender, Class, and Region at the Female Seminary, est. 1853

Brenda R. Weber
2012

Stark Raving Fat
Stark Raving Fat

Celebrity, cellulite, and the sliding scale of sanity

Brenda R. Weber
2012

Always Lonely
Always Lonely

Celebrity, Motherhood, and the Dilemma of Destiny

Brenda R. Weber
2011

Reality (Celebrity) Check
Reality (Celebrity) Check

fat, death and the ageing female body

Brenda R. Weber
2012

*For a full list of publications, see CV above.

Courses taught

G101: Gender, Culture, and Society

G225: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture

H299: Gender, Representation, and Reality TV

H300: Honors Colloquium on the Body

G304: The Construction of Masculinities: A Survey of Manhood in the American Imagination from the 1950s Forward

G310: Representation and the Body

G402: A Fascination with Fame: Gender and the Culture of Celebrity

G485: Gender and Discourse

CS601/AMST620/GS701: Cultural Studies, the Body, and Theories of Embodiment

G602/CS701: The Gendered Politics of Cultural Production and Criticism: Discredited Genres, Unruly Peoples, and Wayward Acts

G603: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory

G701/CS701: Gender, Media, and the Politics of Celebrity

G708: Contested Masculinities

G714: Gender, Race, and Media

G780: Gender Studies Professionalism