Joanna McIntyre is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research brings together celebrity, queer, and trans studies, with a particular focus on digital media and Australian screen cultures. She is co-editor of Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture (2021, with Anthea Taylor) and Lead Chief Investigator on multiple funded projects, with work regularly appearing in journals including Celebrity Studies and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Anthea Taylor is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in feminist celebrity studies, including the first monograph on celebrity feminism, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016), and most recently Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive (2025).