Job title
Reader in Media and Cultural Studies
Job responsibilities
Joanne is currently the Subject Leader for Media & Cultural Studies. Her main teaching is on the level 1 module Analyzing Popular Culture, the level 2 module The Place of Popular Culture and the level 3 module Lifestyle and Consumer Culture. She also contributes to the MA Media and Globalization.
Current projects
Joanne has recently finished editing a collection (with Stacy Gillis, Newcastle), Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture for Routledge. She is seeking to develop her work on domesticity and domestic cultures; food cultures; downshifting; and the role of consumption in the construction of second-wave feminist identities.
Information for prospective research students
Joanne has supervised research students working on popular music, internet cultures and consumption. She welcomes new students in the following areas:
- Domestic cultures
- Food cultures
- Feminism and popular culture
- Consumption