Dr Debra Benita Shaw
Reader in Cultural Theory
Centre for Cultural Studies Research, Humanities and Creative Industries, Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
Debra teaches history and theory on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Visual Arts and Architecture and supervises doctoral candidates in Fine Art and Cultural Studies.
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EB 1.18, Docklands Campus
School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
University of East London
Docklands Campus
London
E16 2RD - D.Shaw@uel.ac.uk +442082237474
Debra Benita Shaw
is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts and
co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research. She has over 20 years’ experience of teaching in
Arts & Humanities, Cultural Studies and related fields and is known
internationally as a critical posthumanist interested in urban studies,
feminism and science fiction criticism. Her textbook, Technoculture: The Key
Concepts (2009) is used on science and technology studies courses around
the world and she is regularly invited to address symposia on approaches to
urban change, posthuman theory and literary criticism. With Jeremy Gilbert, she
organises the yearly seminar series Culture, Power & Politics.
PhD English Literature, University of East Anglia (1995)
Debra serves on the
editorial boards of the journals New Formations (Lawrence & Wishart)
and Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis) and is founding editor of the Radical Cultural Studies book series published by Rowman &
Littlefield International.
Overview
Debra’s research in the cultural study of science and
technology, feminism, critical posthumanism and urban studies is well known in
the UK, EU and US and is widely cited in international journals, monographs and
edited collections. She is recognised as an expert in science fiction criticism
and has also gained considerable recognition in the fields of architecture and
critical geography.
Debra is currently researching the relationship between domestic violence and Covid-19 in the context of contemporary urbanism.
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Funding
Debra Benita Shaw
is a Reader in Cultural Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural
Studies Research.
Interests
Portfolio
- Photography: Final
Major Project
- Architecture:
History and Theory (postgraduate and undergraduate)
- Cultural and
Critical Theory
- Supervision of
doctoral candidates