Personal statement

I am a Reader in Feminist Media Studies and Subject Leader in Media and Critical Studies with portfolio responsibilities for learning and teaching across Bath School of Art, Film and Media. I am driven by a passion for equality, diversity and inclusion from the classroom to the creative industries, supporting women in Higher Education as an Aurora Champion, Women Space associate and Chair of the BSU Women’s Health Staff Network.

I have over two decades of experience in researching fame cultures and representations of gender, publishing books on Masculinity and Popular Television (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Motherhood and Popular Television (Anthem, 2012), Maternal Readings of Popular Television (Peter Lang, 2016) and Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); alongside work in journals such as Celebrity Studies, Men and Masculinities and Feminist Media Studies.

Academic qualifications

  • BA
  • MA
  • PhD.

Professional memberships

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Trustee, Learning on Screen.

External Examiner roles

  • Southampton Solent University - Media, Arts and Society: 2011-2016.
  • The American College of Greece: Deree College - Cinema Studies: 2020-2024.
  • Anglia Ruskin University - Film, Media and Computer Games: 2021-2025.
  • Nottingham Trent University - Media Communications and Culture: 2021-2025.

PhD External Examiner

  • Deconstructing the dominant pregnancy script: a feminist analysis of pregnancy and parenting in contemporary British and American fiction, film, and on social media (University of Chester, UK)
  • Representations of fatherhood on popular television (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Postfeminist nostalgia and Hollywood cinema (Southern Cross University, Australia)
  • Toxic celebrity (Deakin University, Australia)
  • Male street dance crews on television talent show competitions (University of Surrey, UK)
  • The reproductive cyborg: representations of the maternal in science fictions films, 
    2000-2020 (Leeds Beckett University, UK)

Teaching specialisms

  • Gender in popular media culture
  • Stardom, celebrity and influencers
  • Motherhood and non-traditional family building
  • Feminist activism.

Research and academic outputs

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