Kelly Kessler

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@drkelster      

Kelly Kessler is life-long television fan, haphazard collector of television tie-ins, and an Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University. She’s the author of Broadway in the Box: Television’s Lasting Love Affair with the Musical and Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity, and Mayhem. Her work frequently engages with issues of gender, sexuality and genre in American television and film and can be found in Wired, The Advocate, Studies in Musical Theatre, Television and New Media, and Televising Queer Women.

• POSTED July 2, 2020

  
  Hamilton on Disney+ Could Be Revolutionary in More Ways Than One
  With Broadway in quarantine, the show's streaming debut may have lasting implications.
• POSTED June 23, 2020

  
  Hamilton's Streaming Debut is an Accidental Gift to an American Uprising
  Lin-Manuel Miranda's retelling of our nation's founders couldn't land on Disney+ at a better time.