Graham Barnfield is Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Universityof East London and a member of London East Research Institute management board. A Fellow of the Wolfsonian-FIU, he is a domain editor for Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture; as a journalist, his writing has appeared in The Times Higher Education, 7 Days, AD: Architectural Design, Crime Time and online current-affairs magazine spiked (www.spiked-online.com), among others.

'Initially employed in the public sector before and after graduation I won a postgraduate MPhil/PhD studentship to study theUScultural politics of the New Deal era. I first joined theUniversityofEast Londonjournalism programme in 2002, worked to reshape the degree into its current form in 2004, whereupon I became programme leader. The 2007-8 financial year was spent as an account director in Public Relations; my ongoing freelance journalism keeps me up to date with industry trends.'

My long-term research engages with New Deal cultural politics, and I have published essays on such authors as Dashiell Hammett, John Dos Passos, Richard Wright and Michael Denning. My concerns with documentary have morphed into media commentary and scholarly publications on reality TV and ‘happy slapping’. More recently, I co-edited two recent collections on post-9/11 media and published on the rise of ‘gorno’ films (such as Saw and Hostel) and onArabian Gulf sporting megastructures.

1) Barnfield, G.,”2016, '2022, 2030, Go! Sustainability and Arabian Gulf Sporting Megaprojects” in Savery, J. and Gilbert, K. (eds.), Sustainability & Sport, (Common Ground Publishing, 2011) pp.269-276

ISSN/ISBN: 978-1863359122

2) Guest Editor; ‘The War on Terror in News and Popular Culture', Journal of War and Culture Studies Volume 4 10. 1386 jwcs 4.2.155_1

ISSN: 17526272         DOI:10.1386/jwcs.4.2.155_1

Barnfield was co-editor of journal issue (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2062/) with Dr Philip Hammond ofLondonSouthBankUniversity; co-authored Introduction (pp.151-160); issued contained seven fully peer-reviewed articles.

3) Barnfield, G. “The Camera Eye and Question of Journalistic Objectivity”, in Zina de Abreu, M. & Vasconcelos, B. (eds.) John Dos Passos: Biography and Critical Essays, (Cambridge Scholars Press 2010). ISSN/ISBN: 978-1443824217

4) Barnfield, G. (2008) co-editor of “Class Culture and Public Intellectuals”, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Vol. 8, No.1 including Barnfield’s ‘Shadowy Aesthetics: The Cultural Front, Literary Judgment and Perceptions of Mass entertainment’ http://reconstruction.eserver.org/081/barnfield.shtml

ISSN: 1547-4348

Co-Editor of a special issue of Reconstruction containing 24 scholarly articles, four interviews and four review essays, co-authoring the introduction.

5) Barnfield, G. “A Hostel Environment: Sanitised Terror and the ‘Torture Porn’ Cycle” in Hammond, P. (ed.) Screens of Terror: Representations of War and Terrorism in Film and Television since 9/11 (Abramis, 2011).

ISSN/ISBN: 9781845495015

6) Barnfield, G. “Farewell, Nathan Barley? The rise and decline of the freelance creative”, in Poynter, G et al (eds.). London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital (Ashgate, 2011),

ISSN/ISBN: 9781409431022

7) Co-editor 'War on Terror by Other Means: The Media Industries after 9/11' (Supplement), Reconstruction, Vol.11, No. 4

ISSN/ISBN: ISSN: 1547-4348          DOI:

“War on Terror by Other Means: The Media Industries after 9/11” is a Reconstruction supplement co-edited with Philip Hammond (http://reconstruction.eserver.org/114/contents114.shtml). It comprised a preface, eight peer-reviewed articles, and an introduction co-authored by Barnfield.

8) Barnfield, G. ‘“American Structure”: Pulp Publishing and Richard Wright’s Literary Apprenticeship’ in Mesquita, P. (ed.) Richard Wright at 100 (Edições Colibri, 2009)

ISSN/ISBN: 9789727729395

9) Barnfield, G. (co-editor.). “Facing the Future After Richard Wright”, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 8.4 (supplement) 2011

http://reconstruction.eserver.org/084/contents084.shtml#8.1

ISSN/ISBN: 978-1863359122 (Co-editor J. Ramsey)

This was a Reconstruction supplement co-edited with Joseph Ramsey, following up from Reconstruction 8.1 (http://reconstruction.eserver.org/114/contents114.shtml). It comprised a seven new peer-reviewed articles, and an introduction co-authored by me.