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Maryn Wilkinson completed her BA in Film Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury in 2002, and her MA in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick in 2003. Her PhD thesis on feminist film theory (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis) is expected to be completed by early 2012, and is entitled Wondergirls: the Representation of Teenage Girls in 1980s American Cinema. The project looks at the cultural backlash against feminism under Reagan's neo-conservatism, at the structural recurrences amongst representations of female adolescence, and at what these representations contribute to contemporary feminist film theory.

Maryn has taught at the department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam since 2004, and has subjected many a student to her enduring love for all things Bruce Springsteen, Shah Rukh Khan, Cary Grant and Molly Ringwald.

Research interests include:

- Feminist Film Theory and Studies of Representation

- Contemporary American Cinema and Popular Culture

- Teen Film and Television

- The Comedies of Remarriage

- European Manifesto Cinema

- Indian Cinema

- Musicals / Music Films

Publications

"Echte" vrouwen willen geen makeover! Een analyse van het kritische anti-makeovermanifest Beperkt Houdbaar. Valck, Marijke de en Maryn Wilkinson. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Vol. 13 No. 1: 5-17.