Faculty Profiles

Kapurch, K. (n.d.). The Disneyfication of Pop: The Fairy Tales of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and the Beatles. Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disneyfication-of-pop-9798765100059/

Kapurch, K. (2024). Once Upon a Fishtail in Aquamarine, an Ecofeminist Fairy Tale: Mermaids and/as Water Girls from 19th Century Fairy Tales to Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989; 2023). Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 26(3), 320–354. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.26.3.0320

Kapurch, K., Mills, R., & Heyman, M. (Eds.). (2023). The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play. Bloomsbury Press.

Kapurch, K., & Everett, W. (2023). Come Together: Feeling the Distemper of Murk and Elation with the Beatles (1969) and with Sheila E. and Ringo Starr (2017 and 2020). In W. Moylan, L. Burns, & M. Alleyne (Eds.), Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks. Routledge.

Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2023). Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- and Sang Back to Them Ever After. Penn State University Press.

Kapurch, K. (2023, September 12). Why ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ made 2023 the dead girl summer. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/why-barbie-and-the-little-mermaid-made-2023-the-dead-girl-summer-210436

Kapurch, K., Everett, W., & Alleyne, M. (2023). Billy Preston and the Beatles Get Back: Black Music and the Wisdom of Wordplay and Wit. In K. Kapurch, R. Mills, & M. Heyman (Eds.), The Beatles and Humour.

Kapurch, K. (2023). The Beatles and the Bard, the Walrus and the Eggman: Playing with William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll and/as Perspective by Incongruity. In K. Kapurch, R. Mills, & M. Heyman (Eds.), The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play.

Kapurch, K. M. (2022). Unvaulting “Disney Plus Pop” in 2021: Romance, Melodrama, and Remembering in Taylor Swift’s All Too Well, McCartney’s Lyrics, and The Beatles: Get Back. AMP: American Music Perspectives, 1(2), 159–172. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5325/ampamermusipers.1.2.0159

Kapurch, K., Smith, J. M., & Womack, K. (2022, October 19). Rising from the Ashes: Billy Preston’s Victory. Los Angeles Sentinel.

Kapurch, K., Womack, K., & Rapolla, J. (2022). Getting the Beat: A Special Issue on Women and Gender in American Popular Music (Editors’ Note). AMP: American Music Perspectives (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 93–97). Penn State University Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5325/ampamermusipers.1.2.0093

Kapurch, K. (2021, July 8). Tenacious D Does the “Abbey Road” Medley. CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/tenacious-d-does-the-abbey-road-medley/

Kapurch, K. (2021). The Beatles, Gender, and Sexuality. In K. Womack (Ed.), Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years. Oxford University Press.

Kapurch, K. M. (2021, November 25). Eat, Drink, and Get Baked with the Beatles. CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/eat-drink-and-get-baked-with-the-beatles/

Kapurch, K. (2020). “The Beatles, Fashion, and Cultural Iconography.” In K. Womack (Ed.), The Beatles in Context (pp. 247–259). Cambridge UP.

Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2020). “Blackbird Fly: Paul McCartney’s Legend, Billy Preston’s Gospel, and Lead Belly’s Blues.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 22, 5–30.

Kapurch, K., & Everett, W. (2020). “ “If You Become Naked”: Sexual Honesty on the Beatles’ WHITE ALBUM". Rock Music Studies, 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2020.1792193

Kapurch, K. (2020, August 30). “Arising to this Moment: Bettye LaVette’s BLACKBIRDS.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/arising-to-this-moment-bettye-lavettes-blackbirds/

Kapurch, K. (2020, May 18). “Astrid Kirchherr: What She Taught the Beatles.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/astrid-kirchherr-what-she-taught-the-beatles/

Kapurch, K. (2020, May 16). “Martha Wash’s ‘Love and Conflict’ – The Album for 2020.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/martha-washs-love-and-conflict-the-album-for-2020/

Kapurch, K. (2020, April 17). “'Photograph’- We Are All Ringo Now.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/photograph-we-are-all-ringo-now/

Kapurch, K. (2020, March 30). “The Paul McCartney Song We Need Right Now.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/the-paul-mccartney-song-we-need-right-now/

Kapurch, K. (2020). “A Girls’ Studies Approach to Young Adult Literature.” In Teaching Young Adult Literature (MLA Options for Teaching Series) (pp. 91–98).

Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2019). “A Fear So Real: Film Noir’s Fallen Man in Bruce Springsteen’s DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN and the David Lynch Oeuvre.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 21, 89–108.

Kapurch, K. (2019, September 27). “ “She’s So Heavy” at 50: From Billy Preston to Blac Rabbit". CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/shes-so-heavy-at-50-from-billy-preston-to-blac-rabbit/

Kapurch, K. (2019, June 8). “ “Old Town Road”’s Pop Outlaws: Lil Nas X Remixes the Mac-and-Jack Hustle". CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/old-town-roads-pop-outlaws-lil-nas-x-remixes-the-mac-and-jack-hustle/

Kapurch, K. (2019, May 11). “Blac Rabbit: Turning on the Beatles Today.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/blac-rabbit-turning-on-the-beatles-today/

Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2018). “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue: The Make-Do Girl of CINDERELLA (2015).” In M. C. Kearney & M. Blue (Eds.), Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 67–83). Peter Lang.

Kapurch, K. (2018, October 1). “‘Come on to Me’ Is Paul McCartney’s Guide to #MeToo-era Flirting.” PopMatters. Retrieved from https://www.popmatters.com/paul-mccartney-come-on-to-me-2608669994.html

Kapurch, K. (2018, September 25). “Macca’s Jacca Revelation: More than a Sexy One Off.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/maccas-jacca-revelation-more-than-a-sexy-one-off/

Kapurch, K. (2017). “The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart:  Sgt. Pepper’s Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde.” In K. Womack & K. B. Cox (Eds.), The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love (pp. 137–160). Lexington.

Kapurch, K. (2017, January). The Lion and the Unicorn. https://doi.org/uni.2017.0013

Kapurch, K. (2016). Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: JANE EYRE, TWILIGHT, and the Mode of Excess in Girl Culture. New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3

Kapurch, K., & Womack, K. (Eds.). (2016). New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57013-0

Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2016). “Blackbird Singing: Paul McCartney’s Romance of Racial Harmony and Post-racial America.” In New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today. (pp. 51–74). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F978-1-137-57013-0_4

Kapurch, K. (2016). “Crying, Waiting, Hoping: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and the Melodramatic Mode.” In K. Kapurch & K. Womack (Eds.), New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today (pp. 199–220). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57013-0

Kapurch, K. (2016). “Something Else Besides a Daughter?: Postfeminist Girlhood Meets Maternal Melodrama in TANGLED and BRAVE.” The Lion and the Unicorn, 40(1), 39–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0008

Kapurch, K. (2015). “Rapunzel Loves Merida: Melodramatic Expressions of Lesbian Girlhood and Teen Romance in TANGLED, BRAVE, and Femslash.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19(4), 436–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2015.1057079

Kapurch, K. (2014, February 14). “She Loves You: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and The Ed Sullivan Show.” Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture. Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved from http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/02/07/she-loves-you-the-beatles-girl-culture-and-the-ed-sullivan-show/

Kapurch, K. (2013). “Teen Girls and Popular Culture: The Twilight Saga as Exemplar.” In E. J. O’Quinn (Ed.), Girls’ Literacy Experiences In and Out of School: Learning and Composing Gendered Identities (pp. 107–122). New York, US: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Girls-Literacy-Experiences-In-and-Out-of-School-Learning-and-Composing/OQuinn/p/book/9780415897372

Kapurch, K. (2012). “‘Why can’t you love me the way I am’: Rhetorical Functions of Fairy Tales in the Representations of Girlhood and Agency in Neo-Victorian Visions of JANE EYRE.” Neo-Victorian Studies, 5(1), 89–116. Retrieved from http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/5-1%202012/default.htm

Kapurch, K. (2012). “‘I’d Never Given Much Thought to How I Would Die’: Uses (and the Decline) of Voiceover in the Twilight Films.” In A. Morey & A. Morey (Eds.), Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the Twilight Series (pp. 181–197). USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Genre-Reception-and-Adaptation-in-the-Twilight-Series/Morey/p/book/9781409436614

Kapurch, K. (2012). “Unconditionally and Irrevocably: Theorizing the Melodramatic Impulse in Young Adult Literature through the Twilight Saga and JANE EYRE.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 37(2), 164–187. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2012.0014