Barbara Jane Brickman

Barbara Jane Brickman is Professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, The Journal of Film and Video, Discourse, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Since the publication of her first book, New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film (2012), she has written a volume on the film Grease for Routledge’s Cinema and Youth Cultures series (2018) and has recently published a new work, Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture, the winner of the 2024 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also the founder and diretor of the Druid City Girls Media project in Tuscaloosa, AL.