Dr Debra Ferreday
Senior LecturerResearch Interests
I am a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. My research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, media and violence, fan studies, sexuality studies and mad studies.
My current research project is Screening Rape: on the politics of popular culture, spectatorship and violence. See my article on Game of Thrones in Australian Feminist Studies.
Forthcoming 2017: special section of Feminist Theory on 'The Politics of Popular Culture'co-edited with Geraldine Harris (LICA).
I am currently involved in co-organising the third annual Hear Me Roar, Lancaster's Feminist Festival.
Currently I am on the editorial board of Cogent Social Sciences and am a member of ECREA.
Current Teaching
MA Convenor for Gender and Women's Studies
MCS.200: Critical Cultural Theory
MCS.226: Gender and the Media
GWS 407: Debates in Gender Research
PhD Supervision Interests
I am interested in working with students in any area of gender studies, media studies, cultural studies or visual culture, but have particular research interests in:Embodiment and performanceFemininities, including queer and trans femininitiesGender and popular cultureDigital media and online culturesCelebrity cultures
NWSSDTP: Re-Imagining Social Change: Disability Human Rights Activism in Neoliberal Democracies. Poland and the UK as Case Studies (Magdalena Szarota)
01/10/2023 → 30/09/2025
Research
Researching Affect and Affective Communications
15/05/2009 → 26/03/2010
Research
Networked Learning
01/02/2003 → …
Research
Trans-Forming Medicine Conference 2017: Perspectives on Transgender Healthcare
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Screening Rape: the politics of popular culture
Invited talk
Is the Internet Good for Feminism? w/ Caroline Criado-Perez, Shoshana Devora, Polly Davis & Debra Ferreday
Invited talk
Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Damaging the Body
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Bodies: Flesh, performance, media, disgust and desire
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Visualising the Damaged Body: Anorexia, Haunting, and Futurity.
Invited talk
Manchester Digital Media Network Workshop 2: Methods and Challenges of Researching Social Networking Sites
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Everyday Belongings: Theorising the self, society and change A one-day symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Sage Publications (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
AFFECTive and AFFECTing Research: Researching Affect in the Social Sciences
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Onscenity Network
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association: Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Haunted futurities
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Hope: A Workshop on Feminist Theory
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Body and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Researching Affect and Affective Communication
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Home Cultures (Journal)
Editorial activity
6th International Networked Learning Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Theory, Culture and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Feminist Theory (Journal)
Editorial activity
Feminist Media Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Centre for Gender Studies
Centre for Gender Studies
- Centre for Gender Studies