About this journal

Celebrity Studies is a peer reviewed journal thatfocuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts.

Celebrity Studies addresses key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts. Alongside the primary articles, the journal includes the Celebrity Forum section devoted to shorter observations, debates or issues in celebrity culture, in conjunction with book reviews and conference reports and occasional Celebrity Report sections.

Types of Article

Celebrity Forum is a section of Celebrity Studies that provides a space for timely responses to contemporary and historical issues in celebrity culture. We encourage submissions of academic 'think pieces' (1,000-1,500 words, including notes and references) in the form of conceptual explorations or case studies, which should be provocative and open-ended, encouraging exchange and debate. Above all, Celebrity Forum is designed to be dialogical and primarily engaged with cutting edge developments in celebrity and its study. Please note that all submissions are subject to double-anonymized peer review by at least two international reviewers with relevant expertise, and that Forum submissions do not require abstracts or key words.

Forum section submissions should be sent to Gaston Franssen.

Editorial Information

Gaston Franssen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ([email protected]).

The Cultural Report section of Celebrity Studies is home to dossiers of original short articles that interrogate cultures of celebrity which have yet to receive adequate critical attention. Each dossier is framed geographically or thematically with the aim of highlighting heterogeneous forms and functions of celebrity in different national contexts and thus expanding the international horizon of celebrity studies as a field. Previous dossiers have focused on Nordic celebrity, Korean celebrity, Australian celebrity, Non-western celebrity politics and diplomacy, and the celebrity of Haruki Murakami.

Editorial Information

The Cultural Report

Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK. He is co-editor of

-First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship, and Cultural Politics

-Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

He has journal special issues on the TV show Friends (

Television and New Media

Celebrity Studies, 2019).

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All peer review for Celebrity Studies is double anonymized and detailed Instructions for Authors can be found here .

Editors
Erin Meyers, Oakland University ( [email protected] )
Alice Leppert, Ursinus College (  [email protected] )

Forum Editor
Gaston Franssen, University of Amsterdam, NL ( [email protected] )

Book Reviews Editor
Brandeise Monk-Payton, Fordham University, USA ( [email protected] )

Cultural Report Editors
Neil Ewen, University of Exeter ( [email protected] )

Digital Communications Editor
Celia Lam, University of Nottingham Ningbo China ( [email protected] )

Editorial Board
Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia
Gëzim Alpion, University of Birmingham, UK
David L. Andrews, University of Maryland, USA
Mary Beltrán, University of Texas-Austin, USA
Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Nandana Bose, Independent scholar, India
Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, Australia
Anita Brady, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dan Brockington, Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Ellis Cashmore, Aston University, UK
Bertha Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK
Ruth Deller, Sheffield Hallam University, UK;
Mary R. Desjardins, Dartmouth College, USA
Olivier Driessens, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Spring-Serenity Duvall, Salem College, USA
Richard Dyer, King's College London, UK
Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University, UK
Catherine Fowler, University of Otago, New Zealand
Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco, USA
Florencia García-Rapp, University of Valladolid, Spain
Lieve Gies, University of Leicester, UK
David C. Giles, University of Winchester, UK
Mike Goodman, University of Reading, UK
Hannah Hamad, Cardiff University, UK
Stephen Harper, University of Portsmouth, UK
Joke Hermes, Inholland University, The Netherlands
Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield, UK
Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee, USA
Deborah Jermyn, Roehampton University, UK
Anne Jerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Misha Kavka, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Melanie Kennedy, University of Leicester, UK
Barry King, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Adam Knee, Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore
Caitlin Lawson, Emmanuel College, USA
David Marshall, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Alice E. Marwick, University of North Carolina, USA
Andrea McDonnell, Providence College, USA
John Mercer, Birmingham City University, UK
Sabrina Moro, University of Otago, New Zealand
Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India
Mercè Oliva, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York, UK
Claire Perkins, Monash University, Australia
Sabrina Moro, University of Otago, New Zealand
Justin Rawlins, University of Tulsa, USA
Chris Rojek, City University London, UK
Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University, UK
Damion Sturm, Massey University, New Zealand
Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney, Australia
Sarah Thomas, University of Liverpool, UK
Hilde Van de Bulck, Drexel University, USA
Neil Washbourne, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Brenda Weber, Indiana University, USA
Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales, UK
Milly Williamson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Jian Xu, Deakin University, Australia
Sharon Zheng, Lancaster University, UK