Amy McCarthy

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Amy McCarthy

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a.mccarthy@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Humanities

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York St John University

Biography

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PhD Researcher

Biography:

Amy McCarthy is a PhD student at York St John University and specialises in women’s rock music memoirs. She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Sheffield in 2018, where she wrote her dissertation on the female body in women’s music memoirs. In 2018, she won the Wilko Johnson Writing Award for her music writing. Her work is featured in Venue Stories (Equinox, 2023) and Women in Rock Memoirs (Oxford University Press, 2023).

My Latest

McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2023) Glitter, rubber ducks, and dinghies: A retrospective look at the Georgian Theatre and the Teesside gigging community during the early-2010s. In: Mann, Fraser, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Venue Stories. Equinox Publishing, pp. 231-237
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2023) Playing rockstars in movies: St Vincent's The Nowhere Inn and the meta-music documentary. In: Fairclough, Kirsty, (ed.) This is Me: Interrogating the Female Pop Star Documentary. Bloomsbury (In Press)
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2023) The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy: Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's memoirs. In: Garrigós, Cristina and Ahonen, Marika, (eds.) Women in Rock Memoirs. Oxford University Press
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2023) Meet Me in the Bathroom: documentary shows how 9/11 shaped New York’s indie music scene. The Conversation.
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2018) ‘I’m Not with the Band’: Revising the Rock ‘n’ Roll Groupie Narrative through the #MeToo Campaign. In: Memory Colloquium, 20 May 2018, University of Sheffield. (Unpublished)
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2018) Patti Smith’s M Train and the music memoir as a literary text. In: Twisting My Memory, Man: Music, Memory and Memoir Symposium, 13 & 14 July 2018, York St John University. (Unpublished)
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2021) Girl in a Band: Gender inequality and girlhood in women's indie music memoirs. In: Eat Sleep Research Repeat, 8th October 2021, York St John University. (Unpublished)
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2019) ‘Entering the Labyrinth’: Walking the streets of New York in Paul Auster’s City of Glass (1985) and Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City (1984). In: Place and Community Colloquium, 24 May 2019, University of Sheffield. (Unpublished)
McCarthy, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-3816 (2021) Decolonising York St John University: An exploration of alumni colonial missionary work across three colonies from 1913 to 1928. In: Talking about Teaching Social Justice, York St John University. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	‘I’m Not with the Band’: Revising the Rock ‘n’ Roll Groupie Narrative through the #MeToo Campaign	112	30
2	Girl in a Band: Gender inequality and girlhood in women's indie music memoirs	74	32
3	Decolonising York St John University: An exploration of alumni colonial missionary work across three colonies from 1913 to 1928	69	32
4	Patti Smith’s M Train and the music memoir as a literary text	41	14
5	‘Entering the Labyrinth’: Walking the streets of New York in Paul Auster’s City of Glass (1985) and Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City (1984).	40	44
6	The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy: Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's memoirs	34
7	Playing rockstars in movies: St Vincent's The Nowhere Inn and the meta-music documentary.	24
8	Meet Me in the Bathroom: documentary shows how 9/11 shaped New York’s indie music scene	16	5
9	Glitter, rubber ducks, and dinghies: A retrospective look at the Georgian Theatre and the Teesside gigging community during the early-2010s.	15