I teach Literature and Cultural Studies in the department. I have recently published a book on postmodern cinema and women's film Postmodern Chick-Flicks, Palgrave, 2007. I am also working on representations of parenting and family culture under New Labour.

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• BA (hons) University of Greenwich
• MA University of Nottingham
• and Phd University of Staffordshire

• Modernist and Postmodernist Literature
• Popular Cinema
• Contemporary Literature
• Literary theory

• Origins of the Novel (cc2301)
• Modernity, Literature and Culture (cc3301)
• Postmodern Writing (cc3302)
• Shakespeare on Film (cc1304, module leader)

All publications post 2001:

Postmodern Chick-Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film, Palgrave, 2007.

Periodical and newspaper articles

• Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain feature entry on 'The British Film Industry' (Helicon, 1999)
• Hutchinson Encyclopedia feature entry 'What is the Future of Special Effects in Films?' (Helicon, 2000)

Conference papers

• 'Ideology and Media Rpresentations of Family and Parenting in Contemporary British Culture (with Dr Michael Peplar) Univesidade Lusofona, Lisbon, November 2006
• Fiftiesness Revisited, Postmodernism, gender and cinema, PCL conference, Altlanta, April, 2006.
• 'Romantic-Irony and the Reinvention of the Single Girl,' Association of Cultural Studies Inaugural Conference, July 2003, Pittsburgh
• 'Teaching British Cinema' British Cultural Studies, University of Dortmund, September, 1998.
• 'Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Masculinity and Melodrama in Recent Cinema'
  Gender and Genre in Film and Literature, University of Florida, Jan ,1996
• 'Tears are Not Enough: The Male Weepie', Signs of Masculinity, Leeds University, July 1995
• 'Nostalgia and the Women's Film', Staffordshire University Research Forum, May, 1995
• Women and Fandom, Romance Revisited Conference, Lancaster Univeristy, March, 1993

Media/art outputs

• Interviewed for and appeared on Channel Four's Dark Tales (on Angela Carter, women writers) Hart-Ryan productions, January, 1999

Key publications pre 2001:

• Costume Drama and Counter-Memory in Sally Potters Orlando in Postmodern Subjects/
• Postmodern Texts Jane Dowson and Steve Earnshaw (eds) Rodophi, 1995.
• Gender, Sex and The Family in Mike Storrey and Peter Childs (eds) British Cultural Studies Routledge, 1997