Katie Kapurch

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 Disneyfication of Pop: The Beatles, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift' and "The Mermaid as Pop Icon: From Siren Song to Disney and Barbie' (both with Bloomsbury).

Previously published books include 'How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- and Sang Back to Them Ever After' (2023, co-authored with Jon Marc Smith), supported by a major award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and published by Penn State University Press. She also wrote 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.

Katie serves as co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal AMP: American Music Perspectives.