Dr Catherine Driscoll

Dr Catherine Driscoll is Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at Sydney. She has worked at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide before joining the Department in 2003 – she teaches undergraduate students in Youth Cultures: Images and Ideas of Youth and Cultural Theory and postgraduate students in Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture.

Catherine writes in a range of fields, including modernism, cultural theory, philosophy, fan cultures, online culture, youth studies, girl culture and rural studies. Her forthcoming publications include Modernist Cultural Studies (University Press of Florida) and Broadcast Yourself: Intimacy, Presence and Community Online (with Dr Melissa Gregg). Her other current research projects focus on consent, on new romance genres, and on Australian country girlhood (based on an ARC-funded discovery project). She is also a member of the ARC's Cultural Research Network.

Books

Driscoll, C. (2002).
Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory, New York: Columbia University Press

Driscoll, C. (forthcoming 2008). Modernist Cultural Studies, Miami: University Press of Florida

Book Chapters

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg (in press). "Broadcast Yourself: Youth, Community and Intimacy Online". In Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (ed.) Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region. Cambridge Scholars Press.

Driscoll, C. (in press). "Beg Me For It: Rethinking Consent through Harry Potter Fan Fiction". In Glaubman, J. (ed.), Deconstructing Harry: Harry Potter Fan Fiction. Duke University Press.

Driscoll, C. (2007). "Super-Heroine: Women as Martial Artists in Early Twenty-First Century Cinema ". In Frederick, W. and Andris, S. (eds), Women Willing To Fight. Cambridge Scholars Press.

Driscoll, C. (2006). "The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance". In Hellekson, K., & Busse, K. (eds.) Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays. McFarland.

Driscoll, C. (2005). "Girl-Doll: Barbie as Puberty Manual". In Mitchell, C. & Reid-Walch, J. (eds.) Seven Going On Seventeen . Peter Lang.

Driscoll, C. (2004). "felix culpa: sex, sin and discourse in Joyce’s fiction". In Martin, T. & Fogarty, A. (eds) Joyce on the Threshold . Florida University Press.

Driscoll, C. (2002). "Joyce’s Feminist Audiences". In Nash, J. (ed.) European Joyce Studies No. 14: Joyce’s Audiences. Amsterdam: Rodopi

Driscoll, C. (2000). "The Woman in Process: Deleuze, Kristeva and Feminism". In Buchanan, I. & Colebrook, C. (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Driscoll, C. (2000). "The Passion of Virginity". In Foster, J.B. & Froman, W. (eds), Culture(s) in Contention: Difference and Complementarity. Northwestern University Press

Driscoll, C. (1997). "The Little Girl, Deleuze and Guattari" In Genosko, G. (ed.) Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume 3 London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Reprinted from Antithesis, 8.2, 1997.

Driscoll, C. (1999). "Girl Culture; Or, why study the Spice Girls". In Schwerdt, D. & Hoskings, S. (eds), eXtremes: from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls. Adelaide: Wakefield Press

Journal Articles

Driscoll, C. (2008). "this is not a blog: gender, intimacy and community". In Feminist Media Studies (forthcoming)

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg. (2008) "message me: temporality, location and everyday technologies". In Media International Australia: Special Issue on Digital Literacy (forthcoming)

Driscoll, C. (2007). "Girls Today: Girls, Girl Culture and Girlhood Studies". In Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Driscoll, C. (2002). "the moving ground: locating everyday life". In South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 2

Driscoll, C. (1999). "Cyber-gurls, riot grrls, Spice Girls: Girl culture, revenge and global capitalism". In Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1

Driscoll, C. (1998). "Becoming Bride". In UTS Review, 4.2

See also...

Driscoll, C. (2007). "Fanfiction"; "Barbie". Mitchell, C. & Reid-Walch, J. (eds.) Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press

Driscoll, C. (2000). "Cultural Studies"; "Kristeva"; "Bourdieu". Winquist, C.E. & Taylor, V.E. (eds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge

Driscoll, C. (2007) With Matt Hills "Gender and Fan Culture: Round Twelve" on Henry Jenkins' blog: here and here.

With Marnina K Gonick, Catherine will be leading a masterclass on Girls Studies for the Critical Feminist Studies Division of the 2008 Cultural Studies Association conference at New York University (May 22-24).

Articles on the way include pieces on online fan culture for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Cinema Journal and the new journal Transformative Works and Cultures.

Along with Prof. Kate Darian-Smith (History and Australian Studies, University of Melbourne), Assoc. Prof. Chris Gibson (Geography, University of Wollongong), Assoc. Prof. Gordon Waitt (Geography, University of Wollongong), , Dr Kate Bowles (Media Studies, University of Wollongong) and Dr David Nichols (Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Melbourne), Catherine is submitting an ARC Discovery Project grant on life in country towns. Thanks to the CRN and SOPHI for funds to support this application.

Catherine, Melissa Gregg and Kate Crawford will be offering a panel on online and mobile media at the International Cultural Studies Association conference in Jamaica in Jul7 2008.