Dr. Michele Meek is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. She published "Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos" (2019) with Routledge which highlights 15 legendary North American female filmmakers, and her TEDx talk “Why We’re Confused About Consent—Rewriting Our Stories of Seduction” is available on Ted.com. She has published scholarly articles including “‘It Ain’t For Children’: ‘Shame-Interest’ in the Adaptations Precious and Bastard Out of Carolina” in Literature/Film Quarterly and “Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss” in Girlhood Studies. She is currently working on her next book about the representation of sexual consent in teen films. For more information, visit https://michelemeek.com
