Allison McCracken

Allison McCracken is Associate Professor of American Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches classes in American popular culture and mass media, social media, gender and sexuality studies, and American Studies methods. In addition to the book, Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture (Duke University Press, 2015)​, her writing has appeared in the edited volumes Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Duke, 2007), The Radio Reader (Routledge, 2002), and Small Screens, Big Ideas (I.B. Tauris, 2002). She has also written numerous articles for the online journals Flow and Antenna, including a series for Antenna about Glee's gay male characters and their voices, "The Countertenor and the Crooner" (May, 2011). She is currently doing work on feminine-gendered fan communities at conventions and on Tumblr.​

Dr. McCracken received her PhD in American Studies from The University of Iowa, with a focus in media studies and twentieth century U.S. cultural history.