Jennifer Otter started off in the music industry, as College Marketing Representative for Sony Music, touring with Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and a little band called Nirvana.  At 25, she went on to be the West Coast Marketing Director for Interscope Geffen A & M Records, creating branding and marketing campaigns for artists such as No Doubt, Sting, U2 and Eminem.  In 2003, she started her own marketing company, working with a variety of culture industry tastemakers, including L.A.M.B., Facebook and Quannum Projects, while lecturing at San Francisco State University and writing her M.A. in Humanities on Morrissey fandom as religion. Currently she is finishing her PhD at Goldsmiths University of London in Cultural Studies. 

Fan culture, consumerism, music, pop, celebrity and memory.  I am especially interested in how the digital work is affecting the evolution of cultural myth.

Events Management

Tourism Management

Music Industry Management

HR 3018 Planning the Event

HR 1007 Leisure Environment

Joy Devotion:  A Year of Trinkets, Trash and Tributes at the Ian Curtis Memorial Stone.

Ottervision, July 2012.

“Sonic Pilgrimage:  Adventures in Memory and Identity through the lens of Ian Curtis, Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain.” Pop Music, Culture and Identity.  Edited by Stephen Clark, Tristanne Connelly, Jason Whittaker.  Palgrave Macmillan.  Forthcoming in Spring 2013

Edited Volumes and Series

“Snapshots of Talk Talk.”  InThe Spirit of Talk Talk.  Edited by James Marsh and Chris Roberts.  Rocket 88 Publishing., 2012.

“Be Your Brand.”  InThe 360 Deal.  Edited by Andrew Dubber.  Dubber Media, Forthcoming September 2012. 

• Book for charity giving young and emerging musicians advice in 360 words.  Book will be sold for £3.60, with all profits going to the charity Music Basti, who do music workshops with kids who live in poverty in India.

"I’ll Be Your Saint:  The Post-Mortem Evolution of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis."  InHeaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.  Edited by Mike Grimshaw.  Palgrave Macmillan.  Forthcoming Spring 2013.

Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)

Member, The Bronte Society

The Sylvia Plath Memorial Group (co-founder)

Member of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

Contributor, Rock and Theology (http://www.rockandtheology.com)

"Sonic Pilgrimage:  Adventures in Memory and Identity through the lens of Ian Curtis, Sid Vicious and and Kurt Cobain.” Pop Music, Culture and Identity.  Edited by Stephen Clark, Tristanne Connelly, Jason Whittaker.  Palgrave Macmillan.  Forthcoming in Spring 2013

Edited Volumes and Series

“Snapshots of Talk Talk.”  InThe Spirit of Talk Talk.  Edited by James Marsh and Chris Roberts.  Rocket 88 Publishing., 2012.

“Be Your Brand.”  InThe 360 Deal.  Edited by Andrew Dubber.  Dubber Media, Forthcoming September 2012. 

• Book for charity giving young and emerging musicians advice in 360 words.  Book will be sold for £3.60, with all profits going to the charity Music Basti, who do music workshops with kids who live in poverty in India.

"I’ll Be Your Saint:  The Post-Mortem Evolution of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis."  InHeaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.  Edited by Mike Grimshaw.  Palgrave Macmillan.  Forthcoming Spring 2013.

Abstract from Joy Devotion:  A Year of Trash, Trinkets and Tributes at the Ian Curtis Memorial Stone

Located just over 15 miles outside of the English hub of Manchester, Macclesfield was the home of the late singer and lyricist Ian Curtis, front man for post-punk pioneers Joy Division.  The ashes of Curtis are now buried minutes away from where he lived, at the Macclesfield Cemetery and Crematorium.  Though it has been over 30 years since he took his life, an estimated 2,000 people annually make their way to the small, quaint Northern town, on a quest to pay homage to Curtis.  Traveling from as far flung destinations as Japan, Texas and Australia, fans embark on sonic pilgrimages to walk the streets that inspired Curtis, see the house where he once inhabited- and pay their respects at Curtis’s memorial stone.

As a part of her PhD research, photographer Jennifer Otter captured images of fans, flowers and fauna every month over the course of a year at the Ian Curtis ‘kerb.’Joy Devotion:  A Year of Trash, Trinkets and Tributes at the Ian Curtis Memorial Stonedocuments the ever-changing homage’s to the singer and provides unique insight into music, community and memory.