Katie Kapurch, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Texas State University. Katie's scholarship focuses on icons and the iconic, from pop musicians to mermaids, from Twilight vampires to Disney princesses.
Dr. Katie is the author of Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century (2016) and the co-author of Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles Into Being— and Sang Back to Them Ever After (2023; with Jon Marc Smith), which was supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Katie is also co-editor of the books New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles (2016; with Kenneth Womack) and The Beatles and Humour (2023; with Richard Mills and Matthias Heyman). Forthcoming books include one about the Disneyfication of pop with the Beatles, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift (forthcoming in 2026) and one about mermaids as pop icons (expected 2028).
Katie has also published many academic chapters and articles, as well as essays in The Conversation, CultureSonar, and Pop Matters. She has been interviewed by outlets such as Salon and the AP (Associated Press). You can find more info and links to Katie's publications on her website (www.katiekapurch.com) and on Academia.edu and ResearchGate. You can also follow Katie on Insta, FB, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn!
She co-authored her latest book "Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After" with Jon Marc Smith.
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