Who's Who

Josephine Dolan is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies, and Film Studies, in the Department of Culture, Media, Drama at the University of the West of England. Her research covers film, popular writing and radio, with specialist interests in Daphne du Maurier and the British film star Anna Neagle. Her research is organised around questions of identity, with published work on respectability, femininity, whiteness, childhood and Englishness. Her articles have appeared in Visual Culture in Britain (2000), The Yearbook in English Studies (2002), International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (2003), The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2003), Studies in English: A Journal (2004), and The Journal of British Film and TV (forthcoming with Andrew Spicer), and she has chapters in Approaches to Englishness: Differences, Diversity and Identities (2007) and British Women's Cinema (forthcoming with Sarah Street). She is currently working on a monograph National Heroines: respectability, identity, popular culture, 1935-55, and with Estella Tinknell, is editing a collection on Ageing Femininities: Representation, Identities, Feminism.

Kristyn Gorton is Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of York. She has recently completed a monograph entitled Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film (Palgrave, 2008) and is currently writing a book entitled Media Audiences: Television, Media and Emotion (Edinburgh University Press). Kristyn has published articles in The Journal of British Cinema and Television (2006), Studies in European Cinema (2007), Feminist Theory (2007), Critical Studies in Television (2008) and Feminist Review (2008) on emotion, shame and television/film. Her interest in Women, Ageing and Media stems from her work in feminist television criticism. She has a chapter entitled 'Domestic Desire: Framing Older Women's Sexuality in Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters' forthcoming in a collection entitled 'Homes Fires: Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture' (eds Gillis and Hollows).

Jo Garde-Hansen is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at the University of Gloucestershire. She has currently completed an edited collection entitled Save As…Digital Memories (Palgrave, forthcoming) with Anna Reading and Andrew Hoskins. Her research focuses on two strands: media and memory and the female body. She has published articles on the female body, archiving, dance and digital storytelling. As a member of the Women, Ageing and Media Research Group, she is working on research projects that focus upon representations of deep old age in Gunter von Hagens’ Autopsy: Life and Death, the rise of the ‘hip-op’ generation in Saga magazine, and the use of the social network site SAGAzone by older women. Alongside this, she is working on memories from the ‘extras’ on Dennis Potters’ The Singing Detective and pedagogic research with students undertaking ‘digital story’ projects with Cheltenham Jewish Community. 

Ros Jennings is a Reader in Cultural Studies and Head of Postgraduate Research at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published research in the following three areas: issues of gender, identity and nationality in film and television studies; self-reflexive/autoethnographic and qualitative approaches to gender and sexuality in film and television; and cross-cultural pedagogic research. She is currently conducting a longitudinal audience research project on the American television series, The L Word (Showtime) and an autoethnographic project on lesbians in public spaces. As a member of the Women, Ageing and Media Research Group, she is focussing on the representation of non-hegemonic femininities and the 1980s Anglo-Australian television drama Tenko.

Sherryl Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England and her research interests primarily lie in British and American television and television history. Her publications include Oprah, Celebrity and Formations of Self (Palgrave, 2003). She has an article on Six Feet Under; a chapter on Trisha in ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years (Open University Press, 2005); a chapter in Reading Desperate Housewives (IB Tauris 2006); a chapter on Oprah Winfrey in Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media (Palgrave, 2007). As well as her current interest in women, ageing and media, she is also working on a AHRC funded project ‘No Such Thing As Society’ which examines broadcast media during the 1980s.