Meenakshi Gigi Durham is a Professor and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the representations of gender and sexuality in the media, with an emphasis on the politics of the body, intersectional identities, and youth cultures. Her articles have appeared in leading peer-reviewed communication journals, and she serves on the editorial boards of many journals, including Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Communication, Culture and Critique, among others. She is the author of the books MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media (2021), Technosex (2016), and The Lolita Effect (2008), and the co-editor of Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks (2012). She is a former journalist, with magazine and news reporting experience in the U.S. and overseas, including with the Times of India, Science Today, and the Pensacola News Journal. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2014 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the International Communication Association, and the 2019 May Brodbeck Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty as well as the 2017 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Iowa.