Michele Meek, Ph.D.

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See recent press for Consent Culture and Teen Films in NPR’s The Academic MinuteThe Daily BeastMs. Magazine, Jezebel, and more! And learn more about Michele’s award-winning short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp currently screening across the world.

MICHELE MEEK, Ph.D. (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, professor, and entrepreneur. She authored the book Consent Culture and Teen Films (published in 2023 with Indiana University Press), and she has published several other books including Independent Female Filmmakers (2019) and The Mastermind Failure Club (2020). She presented a TEDx talk “Why we’re confused about consent—rewriting our stories of seduction” and has written for Ms. Magazine, Script Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Good Men Project, Salon.com, among others.

Michele wrote and directed the award-winning short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp (2023) which is continuing to screen at festivals, universities, and other venues across the world. She has written and directed numerous other award-winning films including Imagine Kolle 37 (2017), which screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art and film festivals across the world, and Red Sneakers (2008). She also worked as associate producer on the documentary feature Salvage (2019), which premiered at SXSW Film Festival. She has several creative projects in the works—including a feature screenplay Cruisin‘, an episodic screenplay Midlife Mayhem, and a documentary The Impermanence of Everything.

She is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Communication department at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches filmmaking, screenwriting, film studies, digital media, gender studies, and life design.

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consent culture and teen films

Now available from Indiana University Press— Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies by Michele Meek. Learn more.

“Meek’s study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent,“—Author Timothy Shary

“Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood’s representation of adolescent sexuality,”—Author Kristen Hatch

Bay Creek Tennis Camp

Writer/director Michele Meek’s latest short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp is a timely take on the cross-generation disconnect around gender inclusivity. In the film, Coach Charlie has been doing things his way for decades. But the Generation Alpha kids who join his camp this year won’t stand for being split by gender—and they decide to teach him a lesson.

The film has garnered several screenplay awards and has begun screening at several Oscar-qualifying festivals. The film also has been featured on podcasts and news outlets including FOX61. Learn more.