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Dr Debra Ferreday

Sociology: Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Feminist Media Studies Research Group

Current Teaching

MA in Media and Cultural Studies (convenor)

MA Critical Debates in Cultural Theory

MA Critical Methods in Cultural Theory

CULT 326: Gender Performativities

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the following areas: digital culture and new media; feminist cultural theory; weight and eating disorders; sex work; affect; queer theory; fashion; celebrity; popular culture; somatechnics and theories of embodiment. My book, Online Belongings, was published this year by Peter Lang. I am currently working on a second book project which will be a cultural history of femininity at the turn of the millennium, focussing on fashion, celebrity and consumer culture.

Publications

(under review) 'A Waif's Progress: the fall and rise of Kate Moss'

(forthcoming) 'Freak or Chic? Michael Jackson in Balmain', Celebrity Studies Journal special forum issue on Michael Jackson: Celebrity, Death and the King of Pop.

(forthcoming) 'The Somatechnics of Size Zero: reading the "transgressive" thin body in fashion and popular culture' in S. Murray and N. Sullivan, eds., The Somatechnics of Size: Queer Interventions'

(2010) 'Writing Sex Work Online: Belle de Jour and the problem of authenticity', Wagadu: a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, special issue: Demystifying Sex Work and Sex Workers, ed. Susan Dewey.>

(forthcoming 2010) 'Hope and Feminist Theory,' special issue of Journal for Cultural Research, co-editor with Rebecca Coleman

(forthcoming 2010) 'Reading Disorders: online suicide and the death of hope', Journal for Cultural Research.

Ferreday D. (2009) Online Belongings: Fantasy, Virtuality, Community, Oxford: Peter Lang.

Ferreday, D. (2008) 'Showing the Girl: Burlesque, Femininity and Feminism', Feminist Theory 9 (1).

(2008) 'New Methodologies in Feminist Research', Feminist Media Studies 'Comment and Criticism' section (with Imogen Tyler and Rebecca Coleman).

Ferreday, D. (2007) 'Adapting Femininities: The New Burlesque.' M/C Journal (10) 2.

Ferreday, D. and Lock, S. (2007) 'Computer Crossdressing: Queering the Virtual Subject' in K. O'Riordan and D.J. Philips, eds., Queers Online: Media Technology and Sexuality, Peter Lang.

Jones, C., Ferreday, D., and Hodgson V. (2006) 'Networked Learning, a relational approach - weak and strong ties', in S. Banks, V. Hodgson, C. Jones, B. Kemp, D. McConnell and C. Smith (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Networked Learning 2006. Lancaster: Lancaster University.

Ferreday, D., Hodgson, VE and Jones C, (2006) 'Dialogue, Language and Identity: Critical Issues for Networked Learning', Studies in Continuing Education 28 (3), 223 - 239.

Ferreday, D. (2005) 'Bad Communities: Internet Communities and Hate Speech', M/C Online 8 (1).

Ferreday, D. (2003) 'Unspeakable Bodies: Erasure, Embodiment and the Pro-Ana Community', International Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (3), 277-295.

Associated Keywords: Bodies, Consumerism, Contemporary popular culture, Critical theory, Cultural Studies, Cultural theory, Culture, Culture and media, Cyberspace, Digital humanities, Ethnicity, Femininities, Feminist and critical race theory, Feminist cultural studies of science and technology, Food, Gender, Identity, Information society, Interactive multimedia art, Interdisciplinary, Internet, Media, New media, Queer, Queer theory, Race, Science and technology studies, Sexualities, Sociology, Subculture, Subjectivity, Technoscience, Women's studies

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