My name is Anne Helen Petersen and I write long things for BuzzFeed.  I received my Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin in the Department of Radio-Television-Film.  

Email me at annehelenpetersen_at_gmail.com; Twitter at annehelen

"Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style" was blogging my attempt to reconcile my current research, a fascination with stars, and the impulse to alter the landscape of academic publishing. It's not dormant, but I'll go ahead and let it live here and only quasi-embarrass me. 

My academic work focused on star studies; my dissertation details, contextualizes, and analyzes the relationship between Hollywood industry, the production of stars, and celebrity gossip.  Now I try and take all those things and make them accessible to broader audiences. My first book, Scandals of Classic Hollywood, is forthcoming from Plume/Penguin on September 30th, 2014. 

Selected Writing: 

"Confidentially Yours," The Believer

"The Trials of Entertainment Weekly," The Awl

Scandals of Classic Hollywood, The Hairpin

"The Rules of the Game: A Century of Hollywood Publicity,"Virginia Quarterly Review

"There Are Things Of Which I May Not Speak," The Toast

"The Hollywood Canteen,"Laptham's Quarterly

"Decoding the Beyonce Tumblr,"Gawker 

"Me, You, and Star Trek: The Next Generation,"The Awl

Various fan magazine finds at Slate's The Vault 

The "Remembering Lilith Fair" series at The Hairpin