Kate Grover

Education

• Ph.D. in American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022
• Graduate Portfolio Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022
• M.A. in American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2018
• B.A. in American Studies, B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Tulane University, 201

Research

My research explores the politics of feminist cultural production in the United States with a focus on the historical activism of women musicians. I am currently writing a history of popular musicians’ responses to gender inequality in the American music industry from the 1960s to the present.

Teaching

I teach classes on gender, feminisms, activism, and popular culture in the United States from the 20th century to the present, including:

• Gender and Rock
• A League of Their Own: Gender, Sport, and Popular Culture
• Popular Music and Feminism
• Queer Space: From Bookstores to Ballroom
• Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Selected Publications

•  "Rock Trolls and Recovery: Revisiting Rockism via Miles Parks Grier.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 34 (1): 29-34 (March 2022)

• "Rocking the Revolution: The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band and the Politics of Feminist Rock and Roll.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46 (2): 489-512 (Winter 2021)

• "Intersectional Labor Feminist Country? Listening for Country Music Feminisms in Margo Price’s ‘Pay Gap.’” Quarterly Horse: A Journal of [Brief] American Studies, 4 (2020)

• "Demystifying ‘Cool:’ A Brief History.” Not Even Past (November 27, 2017)