Dr. M.C. (Maryn) Wilkinson
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
- Turfdraagsterpad 1
- Room number: 1.09
Postal address
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Maryn Wilkinson is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and an educational expert for the Faculty of Humanities at TLC FGw. Her research focuses on feminist film and media studies. She examines the visibility, representation, and labour of women in film and media culture, with particular emphasis on the historiography of female filmmakers and media producers—their work, stylistic signatures, and authorship. Maryn also maintains a research line on celebrity culture and fandom, especially Taylor Swift, and the politics and aesthetics of contemporary American popular culture more broadly.
Maryn studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury (BA, 2002) and the University of Warwick (MA, 2003) in the UK, and completed her PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2013) with a thesis on the neoconservative backlash against feminism and the representation of teenage girls in 1980s American cinema. She has taught in the Department of Media Studies since 2004 and is currently co-editing a volume on Taylor Swift (with Joyce Goggin) and working on a collaborative research project aimed at increasing the visibility and recognition of female film and media makers in the Netherlands.
Her teaching and supervision topics include:
- Film style, aesthetics, and close reading
- Female / feminist film directors and media makers
- American politics, film and popular culture
- Cinema / popular culture and the body; gender and sexuality, representation, agency, resistance, affect, performance
- Teen film and television, teen pop culture
- World cinema, esp. Japan, India, and Iran
- Music and film
- Celebrity studies
Her educational expertise topics include:
- Diversity and inclusion
- H.O.T. moments
- The international and intercultural classroom
- Intercultural competences in teaching and learning
- Multilingualism in the classroom
- Socially engaged education
- Creative and practice-based assignment / course / curriculum design
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Publications
- refereed (14)
- conference contributions (2)
- recognitions (6)
- supervised theses (1)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2026
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2026). A Hug from Taylor Swift: Cuteness, Affect, and im(media)cy in Swift’s Early Fan Campaigns. Manuscript in preparation. In Why Does Tay Make Me Feel this Way?: Aesthetics, Addiction, Im(media)cy, Performance, Economy (Fandoms). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2026). A closet full of cardigans: Taylor Swift’s political ‘coming out’ in Miss Americana (Wilson, 2020). Manuscript in preparation. In K. Fairclough (Ed.), This is me: Interrogating the Female Pop Star Documentary Bloomsbury Academic.
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2026). Barbie (2023). Manuscript submitted for publication. In G. Needham, & N. Johnston (Eds.), Screening American Film Routledge.
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2026). Designated WIP Time: female labour, resistance, and newfound communities in online craft videos. In A. R. E. Taylor, L. Kopitz, A. Kviat, & Y. Soncul (Eds.), Digital Exhaustion: Burnout, Fatigue and Overload in the Age of Constant Connectivity Intellect Books. https://www.intellectbooks.com/digital-exhaustion
2025
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2025). A Question of Silence (1982). Manuscript submitted for publication. In M. San Filippo, D. Jelaca, & S. Cobb (Eds.), Screening Women Filmmakers (Screening Cinema). Routledge.
- Wilkinson, M. C., & Goggin, J. (Eds.) (2025). Why Does Tay Make Me Feel this Way?: Aesthetics, Addiction, Im(media)cy, Economy, Performance. Palgrave Macmillan.
2023
- Wilkinson, M. (2023). The Bling Ring: Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring. In S. Ferriss (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola (pp. 75-90). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350244337.0012 [details]
2019
Wilkinson, M. (2019). 'Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business…'. Celebrity Studies, 10(3), 441-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630160 [details]- Wilkinson, M. C. (2019). The Performativity of Labour and Femininity on Mad Men. In K. McNally, J. Marcellus, T. Forde, & K. Fairclough (Eds.), The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (pp. 99-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31091-2_7 [details]
2018
- Wilkinson, M. (2018). On the Depths of Surface: Strategies of Surface Aesthetics in The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers and Drive. Film-Philosophy, 22(2), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2018.0074 [details]
2017
- Wilkinson, M. (2017). Leisure/Crime, Immaterial Labor, and the Performance of the Teenage Girl in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers (2012) and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013). The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 12/13, 20-37. http://www.jfsonline.org/issue12-13/articles/wilkinson/ [details]
2015
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2015). Representation of American versus non-American fans in Baillie Walsh's Springsteen & I. Transformative Works and Culture, 19. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0595 [details]
2014
- Wilkinson, M. (2014). The makeover and the malleable body in 1980s American teen film. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(3), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877913513698 [details]
2024
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2024). A closet full of cardigans: Taylor Swift’s political ‘coming out’ in Miss Americana (Wilson, 2020). Paper presented at 5th International Celebrity Studies Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2024). Wong Kar-Wai: an Auteur's Radical Shift in Film Style. Paper presented at ACASA Workshop on Stylistic Innovation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Prize / grant
- Wilkinson, M. (2025). CLARIAH-NL Research/Teaching Fellowship 2025.
- Wilkinson, M. (2024). ASPASIA Grant.
Membership / relevant position
- Wilkinson, M. (2023-2027). SIG International Classroom, . https://tlc.uva.nl/en/article/sig-international-classroom/
Media appearance
- Wilkinson, M. (01-11-2024). The Taylor Swift Effect [Television] ARTE. The Taylor Swift Effect. https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/120464-000-A/the-taylor-swift-effect/
- Wilkinson, M. (25-10-2024). Onder Mediadoctoren 193: Inclusiviteit in de collegebanken [Radio] Podcast Onder Mediadoctoren. Inclusiviteit in de collegebanken. https://ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-193-inclusiviteit-in-de-collegebanken/
Others
- Wilkinson, M. (other) (7-4-2024). Beeldbestormers: Fuck de Canon! Kantel je blik op de filmgeschiedenis (other). https://www.ketelhuis.nl/films/beeldbestormers-fuck-de-canon/
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Wilkinson, M. (2019). 'Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business…'. Celebrity Studies, 10(3), 441-444.