Katie Kapurch is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, where she teaches courses on the Beatles and youth culture. She is currently working on two books, Blackbird Singing: Black America Remixes the Beatles (Penn State UP, forthcoming) and Sex and Gender in Rock and Pop from the Beatles to Beyoncé (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), the latter of which is co-authored with Walter Everett (University of Michigan). You can learn more about Katie's work at www.katiekapurch.com.