Kelly Marie Coyne is a writer and cultural historian. She teaches in the Department of English at Georgetown University and holds a PhD in cultural studies from Northwestern University. Her research has appeared in Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics (Duke), Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal Online (JASNA), and Screening American Nostalgia (McFarland, 2021). Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York, and The Washington Post. It has also been featured on NPR and Good Morning America, among other places.
Kelly Marie Coyne
Articles
Rereading “Sula” After the Fall of Roe
Kelly Marie Coyne revisits Toni Morrison’s “Sula” in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturning.
Unhooking: On the Gigification of Intimacy
Kelly Coyne examines gig-work philosophy in Emma Cline’s novel “The Guest” and Gene Stupnitsky’s movie “No Hard Feelings.”
Single Girls Forever: How TV Envisions Friendship Between Women
Kelly Coyne asks why TV series from Laverne and Shirley to Girls5Eva need to represent adult female friendship through girlhood
Queering the Language of Female Friendship in Juliet Lapidos’s “Talent”
Kelly Coyne dissects the queering of language in Juliet Lapidos’s satirical campus novel “Talent.”
The Confessional Peep Show: Pleasure, Pornography, and “The Deuce”
Reading HBO’s “The Deuce” through the lens of academic porn studies.
Sylvia Plath’s Magic Mirror
The duality that Sylvia Plath wrote about in her thesis provides the basis for the personality of Esther, the protagonist of Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
Gothic Camp: The Beales of East Hampton
Kelly Coyne revisits "Grey Gardens."
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