Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (Australia). She is the author of numerous essays on cultural theory, girls and girl culture, modernity and modernism, popular culture and popular genres, and rural studies. Catherine's books include: Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory (Columbia UP, 2002); Modernist Cultural Studies (UP Florida, 2010); Teen Film: A Critical Introduction (Berg, 2011); and The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience (Ashgate, 2014). She is also co-editor of the following books: with Meaghan Morris, Gender, Media and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2014); with Megan Watkins and Greg Noble, Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct (Routledge, 2015); and, with Kate Darian-Smith and David Nicholls, Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns (Ashgate, forthcoming).For more information see http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/staff/profiles/catherine.driscoll.php