Theresa Starkey is the associate director for the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and an instructional associate professor at the University of Mississippi. Her work has appeared in the Oxford American, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. 
Comedy · Directors · Women in Film
Drop In and Get Lost: Sex as Funhouse, Freak Show, and Masquerade in Irma la Douce and Kiss Me, Stupid
American Audiences watched Irma la Douce without discomfort, perhaps because French prostitutes and pimps were performing immoral acts and misdeeds. The same subversion of middle-class values that would later inform[…]
