Dr. Michele Meek

Dr. Michele Meek's expertise focuses women filmmakers, independent film, girlhood studies, and sexuality studies. She published the compilation "Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos" (2019) with Routledge, and she co-edited the book "The Independent’s Guide to Film Distribution" (2014).

She is the founder of The Independent (www.independent-magazine.org) and NewEnglandFilm.com, and she has written and directed numerous award-winning films. She has spoken on panels and presented at events including TEDx, Tribeca Film Festival, and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and she has often served as a juror on awards and film festivals, such as the Women in Comedy Festival, Coolidge Award, and Stowe Story Labs. She has often written for industry publications including Moviemaker Magazine and indiewire.

She has been interviewed by Inc. Magazine, National Public Radio, The Boston Globe, and Rhode Island Monthly, among others.

Her academic essays have been published in peer-reviewed journals; the most recent include “‘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.

Sub-specialties: Representations of sexual consent and sexual violence, girlhood studies, Hollywood film, independent film, filmmaking, women filmmakers, female filmmakers, gender bias, gender discrimination, adventure playgrounds, risky play, childhood studies, youth studies