Media Communications: Academic Staff
Contact details for these staff can be found in our profiles area.
Dr Terence Rodgers is Head of the Department of Film and Media Productions with special interests in media history, popular culture narratives and cultural politics and philosophy. His current research focuses on book clubs in the UK and he has recently published a book on the early pulp fiction writer Grant Allen. He is also a member of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association.
Dr Daniel Ashton lectures in Media Communications and Journalism. His teaching and research interests include media and cultural industries and work, media practice and critical media literacy. Recent publications focus on politics and digital games, and user-creativity and the creative industries.
Dr Andy R. Brown is Senior Lecturer with a special interest in Music Youth Cultures(s) and Media Audiences. Andy's recent research has investigated metal youth music t-shirt cultures, global metal fandom on the Internet and the contemporary metal music magazine in the UK, which has been disseminated as a series of conference papers and recent publications.
Dr Rebecca Feasey is a lecturer in Film and Media Communication. As a specialist in film studies, she is interested predominantly in the representation of gender in popular film, television and the contemporary culture of celebrity. She has published widely in the field of film stardom and celebrity and was a founding member of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.
Stephen Manley is a Senior Lecturer; his areas of expertise are film studies and visual culture, modernism / postmodernism and new technology. He also has practical media experience in digital video production, and soundtrack composition and recording for film and television.
Prof James Newman is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications. He teaches and researches in the areas of new media, children's media, fan cultures and particularly computer and videogames. He has published widely in these fields, most notably producing the book Videogames (2004) in the Routledge Introductions to Media and Communication series which has become a standard text in game studies. He is currently writing books for Routledge and the BFI on videogames and fan communities.
Dr Fiona Peters is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Her main research interests are within the areas of History of Ideas, Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. Her recent publications have ranged from book chapters on evil, literature and femininity, to several on various aspects of monstrosity. She has recently completed editing a volume of Gender and Identity. Many elements of her research interest feed into the range of new modules she has constructed at BSU.
Dr James Nicholls is a Senior Lecturer Media Communications and Cultural Studies. His main research interest is the cultural history of alcohol use and his published work concentrates on representations of drinking in art and literature and on the place of intoxication in modern thought. He is also interested in media and democratic citizenship.
Dr Richard Stamp is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies. He works in cultural theory and continental philosophy, with a particular interest in contemporary debates over the ethical, political and cultural values of friendship and community. He also applies these theoretical approaches to visual culture, particularly cartoons and animation.
Ms Xaroula Kerasidou is a Part Time Lecturer in Media Communications
Dr Suman Ghosh