Dr Katie Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chester. She is also the Course Leader for BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Barnett is an active researcher who publishes on images of family, gender and adolescence in American film and television. She is the author of Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2020) and of the forthcoming Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Cinema (Bloomsbury).