Publications

Articles 

Lynn, Emma. 2024. “Quasi-Color Consciousness: Casting, Race, and Sexual Violence in Netflix’s Bridgerton.” The Journal of Popular Culture 57(5–6): 308–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13375.

Lynn, Emma. 2025. “Hollywood, Reflexivity, and Barbarian (2022): The Possibilities of Horror in the Wake of #MeToo.” The Velvet Light Trap. 93(93). (Forthcoming).

Book Chapters

Lynn, Emma. “Fan Remakes as Affirmative Transformation: Active Meaning (Re)Making in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.” Fan Video & Digital Authorship. Edited by Samantha Close and Louisa Stein. (Forthcoming).

Book Reviews

Lynn, Emma. 2024. The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere Television by Courtney Brannon Donoghue. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2024.2441026.

Lynn, Emma. 2023. Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame by Caitlin E. Lawson. Women’s Studies in Communication, (46)3: 346–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2227005

Lynn, Emma. 2023. Gender Violence, Social Media and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real edited by Lisa M. Cuklanz. New Media & Society, (25)10: 2827–2829. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231186070.

Lynn, Emma. 2022. The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television by Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman. The Journal of Popular Culture, (55)5: 1177-1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13171.

Articles in Progress

Lynn, Emma. “Rape-Revenge Television in the Wake of #MeToo: Proxy and Imagined Violence in Big Little Lies and I May Destroy You.” Popular Communication. (Revise and Resubmit)


Conference Presentations

International Communication Association Conference (June 12–16, 2025)

“#MeToo and the Academy Awards: Confronting Sexual Violence on the Oscars Stage”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (April 3–6, 2025)

“The #MeToo Film Cycle: Reflexivity and Sexual Violence in Hollywood”

Console-ing Passions (June 20–22, 2024)

“Certain Women as Counter-Cinema: The Value of Women’s (Directing) Work”

National Communication Association Conferences (November 16–19, 2023)

“‘Haters Gonna Hate’: Consciousness Raising and Popular Feminism in Taylor Swift’s 2019 Woman of the Decade Acceptance Speech”

  • Top Student Paper Public Address Division

Console-ing Passions (June 22–24, 2023)

“‘She Ain’t Even the Worst Thing That’s in There’: Monstrous Masculinity, Sexual Violence, and Female Agency in Barbarian (2022)”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (April 12–13, 2023)

“All That Glitters is Not Diamonds: Quasi-Color Consciousness and Sexual Violence in Netflix’s Bridgerton

National Communication Association Conference (November 17 – 10, 2022)

“A Masterclass in Fighting Misogyny: The Rhetoric of AOC”

National Association of Media Literacy Conference (July 14 – 17, 2022)

“Media Literacy in Entertainment: New Perspectives”

  • Panel guest

Popular Culture Association Conference (April 13 – 16, 2022)

“The 2021 Labor Shortage: Emerging Genres on TikTok” 

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 31 – April 3, 2022)

“Contemporary Rape-Revenge Television: Accidental, Imagined, and Proxy Violence in the Wake of #MeToo”

Popular Culture Association Conference (June 2 – 5, 2021)

“Fan Remake Films: Text, Process, and Reception”

Ray Browne Conference (March 5 – 6, 2021)

“Political Activism on TikTok”

Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference (February 19 – 22, 2021)

“Hollywood Hegemony or Korean Takeover?: The Reception of Parasite at the 2020 Academy Awards”

Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference (October 2 – 4, 2020)

“Surveillance, Gender, and Humanity in Ex Machina

Popular Culture Association Conference (April 16 – 19, 2020)

“From Perpetrator to Victim: A Shift in Rape Narratives in Popular Television”

  • Cancelled due to COVID-19

Ray Browne Conference (March 6 – 7, 2020)

“Remaking Raiders: Studying a Fan Shot-For-Shot Remake”