Maria Mastronardi

Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Cultural studies; media studies; feminist theory and methodologies; health communication.

Current Research: Professor Mastronardi’s current research investigates the social and cultural relationship among gender, health, and adolescence. She is completing a book manuscript entitled After Ophelia: Feminism, Popular Culture, and Female Adolescence in Crisis that examines how public discourse of “troubled” female adolescence shifts in order to reinforce conservative social arrangements. Upcoming projects include an analysis of public discourse on the “pro anorexia” movement and a critical analysis of health campaigns aimed at teenage girls.

Representative Recent Publications:

Mastronardi, M. (in press). The relationship between adolescence, health, and media. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.

Mastronardi, M. After Ophelia: Feminism, Popular Culture, and Female Adolescence in Crisis (book manuscript in preparation for publication with University of Pennsylvania Press).

Mastronardi, A. (2000) Youth culture. In, C. Kramarae & D. Spender (Eds.), Routledge international encyclopedia of women: Global women’s issues and knowledge. New York: Routledge, pp. 2159-2162.