About

Jennifer Kate Stuller is a Seattle-based writer and scholar, specializing in gender and sexuality in popular culture. An erudite critic of popular television, films, novels and illustrated works of fiction, Ms. Stuller wants to be the Joseph Campbell of modern myth — only much more feminist and much less crotchety.

As an expert on the subject of female superheroes, she has been invited to speak at conferences in the United States and Australia, interviewed on the radio, and quoted in the Seattle Times. She recently contributed to an entry on Wonder Woman to the 2-volume, Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, a reference project covering the major theories, research, people and issues in contemporary gender studies (SAGE Publications, forthcoming 2008). Ms. Stuller has also worked as an editorial consultant for Callisto Ltd., a California-based firm that develops corporate history books, and she currently does freelance for both local and national publications. She is also writing a book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology, to be published by IB Tauris (forthcoming, 2009).

While studying at the University of Washington Ms. Stuller contributed a biweekly opinion column to the UW Daily in which she explored the larger social relevance of popular entertainment and occasionally reflected on life as an adult undergraduate. She received her bachelor’s degree from the institution in the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas, where as a student she co-facilitated a credited course using the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer to explore issues of human nature. She earned a minor in Women Studies.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stuller moved to Seattle in 1997. She is married to Ryan Wilkerson, an art director employed by Microsoft. Don’t telephone on Wednesday nights — they’re busy watching Lost.