Ash earned a Ph.D. in Media Studies from UT Austin’s Department of Radio-Television-Film, with a dissertation exploring the politics of gender visibility and representation in popular media across film, television and digital platforms. Since then, postdoctoral research has focused on how marginalized media-makers navigate and influence shifting media industries, contributing several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters to the field.

One of Ash’s greatest passions is teaching, especially the opportunity to foster critical dialogue about how media impacts students’ lived experiences and their own agency as media consumers and creators. Over the past several years, this has included teaching courses in Cinema Studies, History of Media, Media Industries, Public Speaking and a variety of special topics in Critical Media Studies. Ash currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Southwestern University, and a part-time lecturer at two local institutions The University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2023. “Rider of the Purple S(t)age: How the Drag King Reinvents the Journal Articles Classical Hollywood Cowboy.” Cinephile, vol. 16, no. 2.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2022. “Assimilation Narratives to ‘Regular Stories’: Celebrity Image, Series Development and On-Screen Visibility in The Mindy Project and Insecure.” Genre en Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, no. 13, https://doi.org/10.4000/ges.3094.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2021. “Queer Romance in Take My Wife: How the Television Rom-Sitcom Gives Book Chapters New Life to the Genre.” In After ‘Happily Ever After’: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, edited by Maria San Filippo, 101–120. Wayne State University Press, Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2021. “‘Change the Motherfucking World!’: The Possibilities and Limitations of Activism in RuPaul’s Drag Race.” In Why Are We All Gagging?: The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race, edited by Cameron Crookston, 27–44. Intellect Ltd.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2023. Rebel with a Cause: The Subcultural Reinvention of Media Iconography Presentations through Drag Kinging. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2023. Man Enough: A Drag King Handbook for Reading Hollywood Masculinities. University of Texas Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, Austin, TX.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2022. The Trans Temporality and Space of “Late Bloomers” in FTM Trans YouTube. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL.

d’Harcourt, Ash Kinney. 2021. “Women’s Roller Derby is for Everyone”: Mediated Responses to Roller Derby’s Anti-Discrimination Gender Policy. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO.