Scholarly/Creative Works
2023
- Kapurch, K., Mills, R., & Heyman, M. (Eds.). (2023). The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play. Bloomsbury Press.
- Kapurch, K., Everett, W., & Alleyne, M. (2023). Billy Preston and the Beatles Get Back: Black Music and the Wisdom of Wordplay and Wit. In K. Kapurch, R. Mills, & M. Heyman (Eds.), The Beatles and Humour.
- Kapurch, K., & Everett, W. (2023). Come Together: Feeling the Distemper of Murk and Elation with the Beatles (1969) and with Sheila E. and Ringo Starr (2017 and 2020). In W. Moylan, L. Burns, & M. Alleyne (Eds.), Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks. Routledge.
- Kapurch, K. (2023). The Beatles and the Bard, the Walrus and the Eggman: Playing with William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll and/as Perspective by Incongruity. In K. Kapurch, R. Mills, & M. Heyman (Eds.), The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play.
- Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2023). Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- and Sang Back to Them Ever After. Penn State University Press.
- Kapurch, K. (2023, September 12). Why ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ made 2023 the dead girl summer. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/why-barbie-and-the-little-mermaid-made-2023-the-dead-girl-summer-210436
2022
- Kapurch, K. M. (2022). Unvaulting “Disney Plus Pop” in 2021: Romance, Melodrama, and Remembering in Taylor Swift’s All Too Well, McCartney’s Lyrics, and The Beatles: Get Back. AMP: American Music Perspectives, 1(2), 159–172. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5325/ampamermusipers.1.2.0159
- Kapurch, K., Womack, K., & Rapolla, J. (2022). Getting the Beat: A Special Issue on Women and Gender in American Popular Music (Editors’ Note). AMP: American Music Perspectives (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 93–97). Penn State University Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5325/ampamermusipers.1.2.0093
- Kapurch, K., Smith, J. M., & Womack, K. (2022, October 19). Rising from the Ashes: Billy Preston’s Victory. Los Angeles Sentinel.
2021
- Kapurch, K. (2021). The Beatles, Gender, and Sexuality. In K. Womack (Ed.), Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years. Oxford University Press.
- Kapurch, K. M. (2021, November 25). Eat, Drink, and Get Baked with the Beatles. CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/eat-drink-and-get-baked-with-the-beatles/
- Kapurch, K. (2021, July 8). Tenacious D Does the “Abbey Road” Medley. CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/tenacious-d-does-the-abbey-road-medley/
2020
- Kapurch, K. (2020). “The Beatles, Fashion, and Cultural Iconography.” In K. Womack (Ed.), The Beatles in Context (pp. 247–259). Cambridge UP.
- Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2020). “Blackbird Fly: Paul McCartney’s Legend, Billy Preston’s Gospel, and Lead Belly’s Blues.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 22, 5–30.
- Kapurch, K., & Everett, W. (2020). “ “If You Become Naked”: Sexual Honesty on the Beatles’ WHITE ALBUM". Rock Music Studies, 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2020.1792193
- Kapurch, K. (2020, August 30). “Arising to this Moment: Bettye LaVette’s BLACKBIRDS.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/arising-to-this-moment-bettye-lavettes-blackbirds/
- Kapurch, K. (2020, May 18). “Astrid Kirchherr: What She Taught the Beatles.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/astrid-kirchherr-what-she-taught-the-beatles/
- Kapurch, K. (2020, May 16). “Martha Wash’s ‘Love and Conflict’ – The Album for 2020.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/martha-washs-love-and-conflict-the-album-for-2020/
- Kapurch, K. (2020). “A Girls’ Studies Approach to Young Adult Literature.” In Teaching Young Adult Literature (MLA Options for Teaching Series) (pp. 91–98).
- Kapurch, K. (2020, April 17). “'Photograph’- We Are All Ringo Now.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/photograph-we-are-all-ringo-now/
- Kapurch, K. (2020, March 30). “The Paul McCartney Song We Need Right Now.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/the-paul-mccartney-song-we-need-right-now/
2019
- Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2019). “A Fear So Real: Film Noir’s Fallen Man in Bruce Springsteen’s DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN and the David Lynch Oeuvre.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 21, 89–108.
- Kapurch, K. (2019, September 27). “ “She’s So Heavy” at 50: From Billy Preston to Blac Rabbit". CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/shes-so-heavy-at-50-from-billy-preston-to-blac-rabbit/
- Kapurch, K. (2019, June 8). “ “Old Town Road”’s Pop Outlaws: Lil Nas X Remixes the Mac-and-Jack Hustle". CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/old-town-roads-pop-outlaws-lil-nas-x-remixes-the-mac-and-jack-hustle/
- Kapurch, K. (2019, May 11). “Blac Rabbit: Turning on the Beatles Today.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/blac-rabbit-turning-on-the-beatles-today/
2018
- Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2018). “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue: The Make-Do Girl of CINDERELLA (2015).” In M. C. Kearney & M. Blue (Eds.), Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 67–83). Peter Lang.
- Kapurch, K. (2018, October 1). “‘Come on to Me’ Is Paul McCartney’s Guide to #MeToo-era Flirting.” PopMatters. Retrieved from https://www.popmatters.com/paul-mccartney-come-on-to-me-2608669994.html
- Kapurch, K. (2018, September 25). “Macca’s Jacca Revelation: More than a Sexy One Off.” CultureSonar. Retrieved from https://www.culturesonar.com/maccas-jacca-revelation-more-than-a-sexy-one-off/
2017
- Kapurch, K. (2017). “The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart: Sgt. Pepper’s Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde.” In K. Womack & K. B. Cox (Eds.), The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love (pp. 137–160). Lexington.
- Kapurch, K. (2017, January). The Lion and the Unicorn. https://doi.org/uni.2017.0013
2016
- Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2016). “Blackbird Singing: Paul McCartney’s Romance of Racial Harmony and Post-racial America.” In New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today. (pp. 51–74). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F978-1-137-57013-0_4
- Kapurch, K. (2016). “Crying, Waiting, Hoping: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and the Melodramatic Mode.” In K. Kapurch & K. Womack (Eds.), New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today (pp. 199–220). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57013-0
- Kapurch, K. (2016). Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: JANE EYRE, TWILIGHT, and the Mode of Excess in Girl Culture. New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58169-3
- Kapurch, K., & Womack, K. (Eds.). (2016). New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57013-0
- Kapurch, K. (2016). “Something Else Besides a Daughter?: Postfeminist Girlhood Meets Maternal Melodrama in TANGLED and BRAVE.” The Lion and the Unicorn, 40(1), 39–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0008
2015
- Kapurch, K. (2015). “Rapunzel Loves Merida: Melodramatic Expressions of Lesbian Girlhood and Teen Romance in TANGLED, BRAVE, and Femslash.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19(4), 436–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2015.1057079
2014
- Kapurch, K. (2014, February 14). “She Loves You: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and The Ed Sullivan Show.” Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture. Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved from http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/02/07/she-loves-you-the-beatles-girl-culture-and-the-ed-sullivan-show/
2013
- Kapurch, K. (2013). “Teen Girls and Popular Culture: The Twilight Saga as Exemplar.” In E. J. O’Quinn (Ed.), Girls’ Literacy Experiences In and Out of School: Learning and Composing Gendered Identities (pp. 107–122). New York, US: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Girls-Literacy-Experiences-In-and-Out-of-School-Learning-and-Composing/OQuinn/p/book/9780415897372
2012
- Kapurch, K. (2012). “‘Why can’t you love me the way I am’: Rhetorical Functions of Fairy Tales in the Representations of Girlhood and Agency in Neo-Victorian Visions of JANE EYRE.” Neo-Victorian Studies, 5(1), 89–116. Retrieved from http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/5-1%202012/default.htm
- Kapurch, K. (2012). “‘I’d Never Given Much Thought to How I Would Die’: Uses (and the Decline) of Voiceover in the Twilight Films.” In A. Morey & A. Morey (Eds.), Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the Twilight Series (pp. 181–197). USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Genre-Reception-and-Adaptation-in-the-Twilight-Series/Morey/p/book/9781409436614
- Kapurch, K. (2012). “Unconditionally and Irrevocably: Theorizing the Melodramatic Impulse in Young Adult Literature through the Twilight Saga and JANE EYRE.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 37(2), 164–187. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2012.0014