Academic Qualifications

• BA (1st Class Hons.) in Cultural Studies (UEL)
• M.A. in Cultural Studies; History and Theory (UEL)
• PhD. in Psychosocial Studies: Masculine Jealousies and Contemporary Cinema (UEL)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy

• Psychoanalytic studies
• The development of psycho-cultural theory and methods
• The application of cultural, social and psychoanalytic theory to issues of gender, emotion and popular culture
• Understanding the media and the inner world
• Psychosocial understandings of jealousy, flirtation and gender
• Gender, emotion and political communication
• Understandings of therapy culture
• Gender and mainstream cinema

Research Interests: Key words

• Masculinity
• Jealousy
• Flirtation
• Emotion
• Psychoanalysis
• Popular culture and media
• Cinema
• Political culture and communication
• Therapy culture
• Identity, media and culture

Undergraduate Teaching

• PS 2207 Consumption and Consumer behaviour
• PS 3203 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
• PS 3219 Psychoanalysis and Film Cultures
• PS 3000/1 Dissertation Supervision

MA Teaching and Supervision

• Tavistock and Portman Clinic M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies:
• Psychoanalysis and Cinema
• Dissertation supervision

PhD Supervision

• G. Ferguson: ‘Fixing the Family: The Psycho-Politics and Mediation of Help’ (Submitted and awaiting Viva)
• E. Chasan: ‘A Psychosocial Approach to “The Failure of Love” in Contemporary Culture’ (from 09/10).
• M. Lembo: ‘The Living Dead and Dead Societies: The Subversive Massacre in Contemporary Horror’ (from 09/10)

I am available to supervise M.Phil. and PhD students in the following areas:

• Psychoanalytic studies
• Culture and the unconscious
• Psychosocial and psycho-cultural approaches to the study of popular culture, cinema and the media
• Emotion, affect and ‘therapy’ culture
• Gender and sexual difference
• Media and identities

• The psycho-cultural approach to the study of the media and the inner world
• The psycho-cultural politics of flirtation
• Gender, emotion, fantasy and politics
• I am Co-Director of AHRC funded Media and the Inner World Network (MiW) www.miwnet.org

• Please visit the UEL research archive for selected articles and papers: http://www.uel.ac.uk/roar/

UK Publications

Single Authored Monograph

• Yates, C. (2007) Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan).

• Yates, C. (2012) Emotion, Identity and Political Culture; Playing with the Electorate (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Edited Book Collections

• Day Sclater, S., Jones, D., Price, H. and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2009) Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2007) Culture and The Unconscious, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Journal Articles 2000 - 2010

• Yates, C. (2011) ‘Charismatic Therapy Culture and the Seductions of Emotional Wellbeing’, Free Associations, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, (Forthcoming, No. 62, July 2011).
• Yates, C. (2011) ‘Reviews and Their Uses as Affective Texts: Viewing and Re-Viewing Taxi Driver (M. Scorsese, US. 1976)’, Free Associations, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, No. 61, May, 2011, http://freeassociations.org.uk/journal/index.php/fapcmgp/article/view/19/24.
• Yates, C. (2010) ‘Spinning, Spooning and the Seductions of Flirtatious Masculinity In Contemporary Politics’, Subjectivity, Vol 3, 3, 282-302.
• Yates, C. (2010) ‘On not Being a Fan: Masculine identity, DVD Culture and the Accidental Collector’ (with Caroline Bainbridge) Wide Screen, Vol 1, Issue 2, June 2010, http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/viewPDFInterstitial/39/48
• Yates, C. (2010) ‘Turning to Flirting: Politics and the Pleasures of Boris Johnson’, Rising East, Vol 2, Series 1, No 2 February 17th 2010 http://www.uel.ac.uk/risingeast/essays/2010-02-17.htm,
• Yates, C. (2010) ‘Valerie Walkerdine’s Video Replay, Families, Films and Fantasy as a Transformational Text’, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (In Press).
• Yates, C. (2006) ‘Masculine Jealousy and the Struggle for Possession in The End Of The Affair (N. Jordan, US/Ger.1999)’, Journal For Cultural Research, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 219-235.
• Yates, C. (2005) ‘Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity in Transition: Memory, History and Mythology in Contemporary Film’, (with Caroline Bainbridge) Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10:3, pp. 299-318.
• Yates, C. (2001) 'Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education', in Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol.3, Nos. 3/4, pp.333-347.
• Yates, C. (2000) 'Masculinity and Good-Enough Jealousy', in Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 77-88.

Book Chapters

• Yates, C. (2012) ‘Mapping the Psycho-Cultural; Context and Debates’ in Identities and Identification Processes: Approaches from Cultural Studies, USA: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers (forthcoming).
• Yates, C. (2009) ‘Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK’, in Day Sclater, Jones, D., Price, H., and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2009) Emotions: Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Yates, C. (2007) ‘Introduction to Part 2: Culture and Trauma as Working Through’, in Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (eds.) (2007) (with Caroline Bainbridge) Culture and The Unconscious, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp103-105.
• Yates, C. (2007) ‘Everything to Play for: Masculinities, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Consumption’, (with Caroline Bainbridge) in Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (eds.) (2007) Culture and The Unconscious, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 107-123.
• Yates, C. and Day Sclater, S. (2000) 'Culture, Psychology and Transitional Space', in Squire, C. (Ed.) Culture in Psychology, London: Routledge, pp.135-147.
• Day Sclater, S. and Yates, C. (1999) 'The Psycho-politics of Post Divorce Parenting', in Bainham, A. Etal. (Eds.) What is A Parent? A Socio Legal Analysis, Oxford: Hart publishing, Oxford, pp.271-295.

Book Reviews

• Yates, C. (2007) ‘“I am a feminist but..” The Paradoxes of Postfeminism in Rosalind Gill’s Gender and the Media’, The European Journal of Women’s Studies (2007).
• Yates, C. (2003) ‘Exploring Jealousy’, Soundings, 23 (Spring), pp. 122-125.
• Yates, C. (1996) ‘Stranger and Stranger: Anthony Elliott, Subject To Ourselves’, Radical Philosophy, 84 (July/August), p. 53.

Editorial Roles

• Co-Editor: Free Associations, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics http://www.freeassociations.org.uk/ (ISSN: 2047-0622)
• Contributing Editor for Film and other Media: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/index.html (ISSN: 1088-0763)
• Joint-Editor: Media and the Inner World, International Book Series, Karnac Books, UK (forthcoming, 2012).

Conference & Seminar Papers

• June 12th, 2011, ‘Costly Games and The Croupier (M. Hodges, 1998), The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. (For tickets go to the Institute of Psychoanalysis, www.beyondthecouch.org.uk).
• 05/11, (with Caroline Bainbridge) ‘ A Psychocultural Approach to The Spectacle of Envy and Femininity in the Press’, ‘The Station’, London.
• 01/11, ‘Flirtatious Masculinity and the Politics of Containment and Contempt’, The Front, ‘Remote Control: Psychoanalysis and Television’, ‘Psychoanalysis and Television: Staging the Debate’, The Freud Museum.
• 04/10, ‘Mapping the Psycho-Cultural, Context and Debates’. The 14th International ‘Culture and Power’ Conference: ‘Identity and Identification’, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad, Spain.
• 02/10, ‘Charismatic Therapy Culture and the Seductions of Emotional Well-being’, Psychosocial Studies Network Annual Conference, UEL.
• 02/09, ‘Opening address: Mapping the Psycho-cultural; context and debates’, Media and the Inner World Network Opening Symposium, Roehampton University.
• 01/09 ‘Emotional Masculinity and the Flirtatious Strategies of Political Communication’, MECCSA Annual Conference, University of Bradford.

• 05/08, 6th, ‘On Spooning Spinning and Being David Cameron’, International Cultural Studies Association conference, New York.
• 10/07 ‘Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema’, Dept. of Psychology, University of Bath.
• 09/06: ‘Masculine Identity, Pleasure and Consumption in the age of DVD and the Internet’ (with Caroline Bainbridge) CRESC ‘Media and Social Change’ Conference, Oxford.
• 09/05, I’m Not Spartacus: Michael Douglas; An Icon of Cuckolded, White Masculinity’, Celebrity Conference, University of Paisley, Ayr, Scotland.
• 03/06, ‘Everything To Play for: Masculinity, Trauma And The Pleasures Of DVD Technologies’ (with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge) Society For Cinema And Media Studies annual conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 04/05, ‘Michael Douglas and Envious Desire in A Perfect Murder’, UEL Symposium on Psychosocial Studies in Dialogue.
• 02/05, Masculinities, Affect and Cinema’, The Association of Independent Psychotherapists, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute, London.
• 05/05,  ‘Masculine Jealousies and The Green-Eyed Gaze In Narrative Cinema’, Roehampton University, Cultural studies Research seminar.
• 11/04, ‘Transitional Masculinities, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Culture’, UEL Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory.
• 11/03: ‘Masculine Jealousies in The End Of The Affair’, National Communication Association, 2003, Florida, USA.
• 07/03, ‘Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity: Trauma, Hysteria and Difference’; ‘Masculine Jealousies in The End of The Affair’ (with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge) The 20th International Literature and Psychology Conference; Greenwich, London.
• 02/03, ‘Jealous Masculinities in Popular Cinema; The Case of Taxi Driver, How Jealousy Drives The Narrative Along’, Association of Independent Psychotherapists, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute London.

Symposium and International Conference Organisation

• 3-6 November, 2011 Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, Bafta London (www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/epff6)
• 02/09- 02/11 AHRC Media and the Inner World Network roundtable events (www.miwnet.org)
• 10/10 Remote Control, Television and Psychoanalysis, The Freud Museum and Media and Inner World Network.
• 02/09 Media and the Inner World Network Opening Symposium, AHRC, UEL and Roehampton University, at Roehampton University, Surrey.
• 09/08 Screening Emotions, UEL and Roehampton University at Waterstones Bookshop, Piccadilly, London.
• 07/04 Culture and the Unconscious; Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at SOAS, London.
• 07/03 Culture and The Unconscious; Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue. British Psychoanalytic Society, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at SOAS, London.
• 06/01 Emotional Learning, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at The Tavistock Clinic, London.

Broadcasts

• 2002 Psychosocial Studies presenter/expert on male jealousy, What do Men Want? Uden Associates, LivingTV.
• 1998 Psychosocial Studies representative on consumer issues Channel 5 News.

Consultancy

• 2010 Institute of Psychoanalysis, External Relations Committee.
• 2004-8 Talisman Fine Art Events Co-ordinator.
• 2003, Consultant for jealousy images for back-line visuals for Real World Design and Recording Studios, Bath.
• 2003, Expert on jealousy, for Deception. (06/03, Anglia/LWT/Meridian).

Professional Membership and Affiliations:

• Institute of Group Analaysis
• Association of Independent Psychotherapists (www.aip.org.uk)
• Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
• Cultural Studies Association
• Media and The Inner World Network (www.miwnet.org)
• UK Psychosocial Studies Network
• Sesame Institute of Arts, Drama and Movement Therapy.