Katie Massengill is a student administrator with the Cinema & Media Studies Program. She assists with administrative tasks, organizing events, and student outreach within the program.<\/p>\n
She is currently a senior at BU pursuing a BA in Cinema & Media Studies with a minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She is particularly interested in the intersection of media and gender\/sexuality, as well as fan and fandom studies. In high school, she completed her senior thesis, “The Use and Effectiveness of Narrative Fiction as Therapeutic Treatment.”<\/p>\n
Katie’s love of storytelling stems from being an avid reader as a child and has expanded to encompass a love of all forms of narrative. Recently, she has become particularly infatuated with 2D animation, and her favorite film is\u00a0Howl’s Moving Castle<\/em>, although it is subject to change at any moment.<\/p>\n Due to her life-long engagement with stories and fandom communities, she truly believes in the power of art, media, and storytelling, and she will always be a defender of the geeks, nerds, and weirdos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21342,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1738\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}