Dr Katie Barnett
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Katie Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chester. She is also the Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies and BA (Hons) Media and Television Production and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dr Barnett is an active researcher who publishes on images of family, gender and adolescence in American film and television. She is the author of Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2020) and of the forthcoming Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Cinema (Bloomsbury).
Teaching and Supervision
Dr Barnett teaches across the undergraduate Film and Media Studies provision at the University of Chester, including modules in Hollywood, auteurship, global film movements and visual media narratives. She supervises MRes and PhD students in areas relating to film, television and gender.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Dr Barnett's research focuses broadly on representations of family and gender on screen, with a particular interest in American cinema from the 1990s to the present. Her research has focused particularly on images of fatherhood and masculinity in Hollywood cinema, and she has also published on representations of adolescence and gender in American television. Dr Barnett is currently researching representations of siblings in contemporary American film (2000s - present) for her forthcoming second monograph. Recent publications include work on masculinity in Jurassic Park; twin death in Personal Shopper; and sibling loss and connection in Into the Wild.