MICHELE MEEK, Ph.D. (she/her) is an author, filmmaker, and professor. She has published the books The Ambiguity of Consent: Consent Puzzles in Film, Television, Public Discourse, and the Law (2026 Routledge), Consent Culture and Teen Films (2023 Indiana University Press), Independent Female Filmmakers (2019 Routledge) and The Mastermind Failure Club (2020). She presented a TEDx talk “Why we’re confused about consent—rewriting our stories of seduction” and has written for Ms. Magazine, Script Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Good Men Project, Salon.com, among others.
Michele has written and directed several award-winning short films including Bay Creek Tennis Camp (2023), which depicts Gen Alpha youth who advocate gender inclusion in sports, and Imagine Kolle 37 (2017) which takes place in an adventure playground in Berlin, Germany. She is currently in production on a feature-length documentary Impermanence about an Italian town attempting to use ephemeral art to save it from obsolescence.
She is a tenured Associate Professor in the Communication department at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches filmmaking, screenwriting, film studies, digital media, gender studies, and life design.
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consent culture and teen films
Now available from Routledge — The Ambiguity of Consent: Consent Puzzles in Film, Television, Public Discourse, and the Law edited by Michele Meek. Learn more.
Through case studies and cultural analysis, this book addresses issues such as the blurred lines between “Bad Sex” and assault, the instability of consent for minors, and how normative models often fail to account for structural inequalities. It invites readers to rethink consent not as a fixed standard, but as a site of ongoing negotiation and ambiguity.
consent culture and teen films
Available from Indiana University Press— Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies by Michele Meek. Learn more.
“Meek’s study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent,“—Author Timothy Shary
“Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood’s representation of adolescent sexuality,”—Author Kristen Hatch
Bay Creek Tennis Camp
Writer/director Michele Meek’s latest short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp is a timely take on the cross-generation disconnect around gender inclusivity. In the film, Coach Charlie has been doing things his way for decades. But the Generation Alpha kids who join his camp this year won’t stand for being split by gender—and they decide to teach him a lesson.
The film has garnered several screenplay awards and has begun screening at several Oscar-qualifying festivals. The film also has been featured on podcasts and news outlets including FOX61. Learn more.