Dr Catherine Driscoll

Dr Catherine Driscoll worked at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide before joining the Department in 2003. She maintains an active research profile across a range of areas, including youth studies and girl culture, modernism and modernity, cultural studies and cultural theory, rural studies, online culture (including fan cultures), ethnography, philosophy (especially Deleuze and Foucault), and art and literature (especially Joyce and Woolf).

Catherine often teaches undergraduate students in the following units: Youth Cultures: Images and Ideas of Youth, Cultural Theory or Genres in Cultural Context. She teaches postgraduate students in the unit Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture.

Catherine's forthcoming publications include books on Teen Film, The Australian Country Girl and a book on online culture co-authored with Melissa Gregg (also in GCS at USyd). Other current research projects focus on consent, on new romance genres, and on Australian country towns (based on an ARC-funded discovery project). She is also a member of the ARC's Cultural Research Network.

Selected Publications

Books

Driscoll, C. (2009). Modernist Cultural Studies, Miami: University Press of Florida

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

Book Chapters

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg (forthcoming 2010). "The Order of Pixels: Towards a Genealogy of Online Culture". M. Mclelland & G. Goggin (eds), Internet Histories. Routledge.

Driscoll, C. (forthcoming 2009) “Becoming a Country Girl”. In Mary Celeste Kearney (ed.), Mediated Girlhoods. New York: Peter Lang.

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. (2008). “Bronze Things; Things of Bronze: Popular Music Cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. In Paul Attinello & Vanessa Knights (eds.), Sounds of the Slayer: A Buffy Anthology. London: Ashgate Press.

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg (2008). "Broadcast Yourself: Youth, Community and Intimacy Online". In Usha Rodriguez & Belinda Smaill (eds), Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region. Cambridge Scholars 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-Walsh, 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. University Press of Florida.

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 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

Driscoll, C. “Who Needs a Boyfriend?: The homoerotic virgin in adolescent women’s magazines”. In David English & Penny van Toorn (eds.), Speaking Positions: Gender and Ethnicity in Australian Cultural Studies. Melbourne: Victoria University of Technology, 1995.

Journal Articles

Driscoll, C. (forthcoming 2010) "Rethinking Girls Studies: A review of Angela McRobbie's The Aftermath of Feminism". In Australian Feminist Studies.

Driscoll, C. (forthcoming 2010) "Chanel: The Order of Things". In Fashion Theory.

Driscoll, C. (forthcoming 2009) "On Popular Music: Teaching Modernist Cultural Studies". In Continuum.

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg. (forthcoming 2009), “My Profile: Virtual Ethnography”. In Emotion, Society & Space, Special Issue on Intimacy.

Driscoll, C. (2008). "this is not a blog: gender, intimacy and community". In Feminist Media Studies, Vol 8 No. 2.

Driscoll, C. & M. Gregg. (2008) "message me: temporality, location and everyday technologies". In Media International Australia: Special Issue on Digital Literacy, No. 128. August 2008.

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

Driscoll, C. (2006) "Super-heroine: Le melodrame de l'actrice materiale.” Tausend Augen: Revue des cultures audiovisuelles, trans. Civan Gürel. Special Issue: super héros au cinéma au 21ème siècle.

Driscoll, C. (2003). “the moving ground: locating everyday life”. 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

Driscoll, C. (1995). "Returns and Escapes: Luce Irigaray and Lesbian Utopics". Critical InQueeries, 1.1

See also...

Driscoll, C. (2008) "Girl Culture Capital” in “Girls’ Studies Forum”. In Journal of Children and Media, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008

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

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

Driscoll, C. (2004). "On the History and Usage of ‘Girl Power’“ and “The Tween Girl Magazine Genre”. Reports to the Federal Court (Proceedings NSD 1569), December 2004.

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

Driscoll, C. (2006) In Visible Bodies: the girl, the model and the anorexic. Melbourne: Centre for Women’s Studies, Monash University, 1996.

News!

Along with a team of researchers from the universities of Melbourne and Wollongong (Kate Darian-Smith, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Kate Bowles, and David Nichols), Catherine has been awarded a new ARC Discovery project grant to work on "Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life" (2009-2012).

Catherine is on leave for all of 2009, but she will be back to teach GCST2604 Cultural Theory and WMST6904 Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture in 2010. There will be more news soon about forthcoming publications. Also, SOPHI has awarded a team of researchers (including Catherine, Natalya Lusty, Melissa Gregg and Anna Hickey-Moody, and members of other departments) funding to develop our research strength in "Gender and Modernity". More details about planned events and activities for semester 2, 2009, will be forthcoming soon.

Catherine will present a paper on teaching Cultural Studies to the Cultural Research Network's "State of the Industry" conference in November 2009.