PhD Film and Cultural Studies, MA, BA (Hons)
Editor of Journal of Gender Studies
Editor of Porn Studies
Research Fellow of MEDUSA: Genders in Transition research network, UOC, Barcelona
Executive Committee of MECCSA (2017 to 2020)
Advisory Board of Melodrama Research Consortium Rutgers University
Member of MECCSA (Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association)
BA Media and Communication
Affect, Emotion and the Media
Gender, Sexuality and the Body
Film Cultures
PhD Supervision
PGCert in Research Practice
Masculinity, Sex and Popular Culture AHRC Research Network
Hassan Hussain, Gay Narratives in Contemporary British Theatre
Lesley Gabriel, BDSM Communities in the West Midlands
Sophie Hedderwick, Beyond sensors, de-coding the curve of the young female body
Steven Chamberlain, The Essay Film
Sean Elder Wilson, Queer Curating Practices
Daniel Sheppard ,Queer Feminism and the Gay Slasher
Andrew Heaton, Hypermasculinity in Gaming
Most Recent
Books
Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism with Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, Susanna Paasonen and Clarissa Smith (Routledge, 2020)
Gay Porn: Representations of Masculinity and Sexuality IBTauris, 2017
Childhood and Celebrity J Mercer and J O’Connor (eds) Routedge, 2017
Rock Hudson. BFI Publishing, 2014
Journal Articles
‘‘Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent’: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Cultural Politics of Fame.’ (with Jamie Hakim and Charlie Sarson) Celebrity Studies. ISSN 1939-2397
‘Fifteen Seconds of Fame: Rupaul’s Drag Race, Camp, and ‘Memeability’’ (with Charlie Sarson) Celebrity Studies. ISSN 1939-2397
‘Sex Positivity and the Peristence of Shame’ Sexualities, 2018, 21:8, 1304-1307
‘Popperbate: Video Collage, Vernacular Creativity and the Scripting of the Gay Pornographic Body’ Routledge, Porn Studies. Special Edition, J Mercer (ed) 2017, 4:2, 242-256
‘The Secret History: Porn Archives, Personal Collections and British Universities’ Routledge, Porn Studies, 2014, 1:4, 411-415
‘The Enigma of the Male Sex Symbol.’ Routledge, Celebrity Studies. Special Edition, J Mercer (ed) Sex and Celebrity, 2013, 4:1, 81-91
‘Coming of Age: Problematizing Gay Porn and the Eroticised Older Man.’ Routledge, The Journal of Gender Studies, 2012, 21:3, 312-326
Chapters in Edited Collections
‘The Metrosexual: Figures of Masculinity’ (with Feona Attwood) Routledge, in Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith (eds) Routledge Handbook on Media, Sex and Sexuality, 2018,
‘The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fanstasma and Erotomania’ I.B. Tauris, in Donna Peberdy and Darren Kerr (eds) Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion, 2017, 15-28
‘Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video.’ Columbia University Press, in Claire Hines and Darren Kerr (eds) Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen, 2012, 215-228
‘Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire’ Blackwell-Wiley, in Karen Ross (ed) The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media, 2011, 535-551
BBC
BFI
Criterion Collection
CPS (as an expert witness)
Schwules Museum
