My first degree is in English Literature from the University of Sussex (1976-79).  My M.A.  was in Film and Television Studies from the University of Westminster; I wrote my dissertation on the Powell and Pressburger film, The Red Shoes. Once I completed my MA (in 1984) I was appointed part-time lecturer and learned my trade in teaching Media Studies here and at other colleges and universities around London.  In 1989 I went to the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California to study for a PhD in Communication Theory and Research.  My PhD thesis is entitled: Look Out for Television! The Introduction of a Cultural Technology.

I am a highly experienced lecturer who has taught across the entire Media Studies and Cultural Studies curricululm at the University of Westminster; London South Bank University; London Metropolitan University and the University of Kent at Canterbury as well as at the University of Southern California.

I currently teach on the BA Media Studies degree.

I have many diverse teaching interests across the curriculum of Film, Media and Cultural Studies.  One of my teaching specialisms is art and the media and another is research methods and epistemology. 

I currently teach Level one core module MS1402 Introduction to Media Theory and MS1407 Media and Gender.  At Level 2 I lead the core module MS2406: Researching the Media and Digital Communications.  I am also the Module Leader for the dissertation module (MS3000: The Project/Dissertation).

My latest publication is the second edition of How to Do Media and Cultural Studies.(Sage, 2013). This is a survey of how to conduct research into the media and culture and is designed to help students working on an independent research project such as the dissertation.  

I am currently researching the history of nineteenth century printing.  My work focuses particularly on the applications of chromolithography (the first mass produced colour process) to Victorian ideas of art, aesthetics and commerce. 

Key Publications:

• Stokes, Jane and Anna Reading (eds.), 1999 The Media in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. 
• Stokes, Jane, 1999. On Screen Rivals: The Cinema and Television in the US and Britain.  Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. 
• Stokes, Jane, 2013. How to Do Media and Cultural Studies. London: Sage.  This has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian and Indonesian.