Dr. Michele Meek

Professor Meek teaches courses in film production, screenwriting, film studies, digital media, life design, and gender studies. She is an award-winning writer and film director. Her most recent award-winning film "Bay Creek Tennis Camp" (2023) has screened at festivals and universities around the world and was selected for distribution in Cleveland Film Festival's FilmSlam program for educators and the Out in Schools program in Canada. In addition, her short documentary "Imagine Kolle 37" (2017) screened at the ICA Boston, Independent Film Festival of Boston, and others. She is the author of "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Movies" published in 2023 with Indiana University Press. In addition, she edited the compilation "Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Profiles, Interviews, and Manifestos" with Routledge in 2019 and "The Mastermind Failure Club—A Self-Empowerment Guide for Artists, Filmmakers, Writers and Other Creative Entrepreneurs" (2020). She has published in academic journals such as Literature/Film Quarterly, Girlhood Studies, and the Journal of Popular Film and Television, as well as popular publications such as Ms. Magazine, Entrepreneur, and Salon.com. In addition, her successes as a media entrepreneur have been profiled by NPR, the Boston Globe and Inc. Magazine. She regularly serves on film festival juries and advisory boards, including Stowe Story Labs, Women in Comedy Festival, Salem Film Fest, and she is on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals Short Film Studies and Velvet Light Trap. For more information, see her website at https://www.michelemeek.com.