Cortney Alexander is from a very small town in northeastern Wisconsin but currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. She thinks of herself as a country girl stuck in the city. She has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies and a passion for feminist media criticism. Cortney wrote her master’s thesis on gender identity in grunge music. Her thesis is entitled “’I’m Not Like Them, But I Can Pretend:’ A Feminist Analysis of Kurt Cobain’s Gender Performance.” If you are inclined to read it, you can check it out here. Right now Cortney works as an adjunct professor and an academic advisor at a small college in Chicago.
