Dr Melissa Gregg
Melissa Gregg completed her PhD in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies in 2004. Her thesis discussed the writing styles of key figures in the history of cultural studies, highlighting the challenges they posed to academic conventions and political debate more broadly. The book version, Cultural Studies' Affective Voices, is published by Palgrave MacMillan.
For 5 years Melissa worked as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Her writing examined the impact of online communication technologies on professional work practices, culminating in her current ARC Discovery project, Working From Home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity.
Using an innovative methodology that includes workplace and home-based interviews, ethnographic web research and textual analysis of print media, this three year study provides an in-depth account of how online technologies become part of everyday life for white collar workers in information jobs. In 2007 Melissa was awarded a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award to support her work on the changing nature of privacy and intimacy in online contexts.
With Catherine Driscoll, Melissa is completing a manuscript on online intimacy and community. A co-edited collection, The Affect Theory Reader (with Gregory J. Seigworth) is forthcoming with Duke University Press.
Melissa is Organisational Secretary and Australia/New Zealand representative for the Association for Cultural Studies and part of the Editorial Collective for Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Altitude and M/C Journal.
In 2009 Melissa is organising a major national conference on academic labour, "The State of the Industry", supported by the ARC Cultural Research Network.
Publications
Books
Cultural Studies' Affective Voices, Palgrave Macmillan (2006)
The Affect Reader (edited with Gregory J. Seigworth; contracted to Duke UP)
(with Catherine Driscoll) Broadcast Yourself: Presence, Intimacy and Community Online (with readers at Routledge, NY)
Edited Journal Issues
(with Gerard Goggin) Wireless Cultures and Technologies Special Issue of Media International Australia No 125 (November 2007)
(with Jean Burgess) 'Counter-Heroics and Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies' Continuum Special Issue 20, 2 (June 2006)
'Affect' M/C Journal Vol 8, 6 (December 2005)
(with Catherine Driscoll) 'Message me: Temporality, location and everyday technologies' Media International Australia Special Issue on Digital Literacy (September 2008)
(with Fiona Nicoll) 'Successful Resistance or Resisting Success? Surviving the Silent Social Order of the Theory Classroom' Social Epistemology Vol 22, 2 (April 2008)
'Communicating Investment: Cultural Studies, Affect and the Academy' Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies Vol 30, 1 (January-March 2008)
'Freedom to Work: The Impact of Wireless on Labour Politics' in Media International Australia Special Issue on Wireless Technologies and Cultures (November 2007)
'Normal Homes' M/C Journal "Home" Vol 10, 4 (August 2007)
'The Importance of Being Ordinary' International Journal of Cultural Studies Special Issue on The Uses of Richard Hoggart, Vol 10, 1 (March 2007)
'Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship' in Continuum 20, 2 Special Issue on Counter-Heroics and Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies (June 2006)
(with Glen Fuller) 'Where is the law in "unlawful combatant"?' Cultural Studies Review 11, 2 (September 2005)
'Toolbox For Electric Fences' Cultural Studies Review 10, 1 (March 2004)
'A Mundane Voice' Cultural Studies 18, 2- 3 Special Issue on Everyday Life (March-May 2004)
'Five Bonds T-Shirts From K-Mart: Intervening Against Indifference' Antithesis 14 (March 2004)
'A Neglected History: Richard Hoggart's Discourse of Empathy' Rethinking History 7, 3 (2003)
'Remnants of Humanism' Continuum 16, 3 (2002)
Book Chapters
'The Importance of Being Ordinary' in Sue Owen (ed) Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies Palgrave (forthcoming November 2008)
(with Catherine Driscoll) 'The YouTube Generation: Moral Panic, Youth Culture and Internet Studies' in Usha Rodrigues (ed) Youth and Media in the Asia-Pacific Region, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge (2008)
'Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender' in Joanne Jacobs and Axel Bruns (eds) Uses of Blogs, New York: Peter Lang (2006)
Interviews and Commentary
'Testing the friendship: Feminism and the limits of online social networks' Feminist Media Studies Vol 8, 2 (2008)
'Thanks for the ad(d): neoliberalism’s compulsory friendship' Online Opinion, 21 September 2007
'Positioning 21st Century Protest' M/C Reviews Special Feature, 'Objection or Obstruction? The Culture of Protest in the 21st Century' (2004)
Reviews
Mark Nunes, Cyberspaces of Everyday Life, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Vol 14(1): 122-124 (2008)
Review of Meaghan Morris, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, Media International Australia 124, August (2007)
'If You Don't Know Me By Now', Review of Simon During, Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction and Angela McRobbie, The Uses of Cultural Studies, New Formations 58 Summer (2006)
'How to Avoid Being Paranoid', Review of Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling, Electronic Book Review (2004)
Review of Lindsay Tanner, Crowded Lives, JAS Review of Books online, June (2004)
Review of Jock Given, America's Pie: Trade and Culture After 9/11, JAS Review of Books online, March (2004)
'Shooting Stars', Review of Chris Rojek, Stuart Hall, Southern Review 36, 3 (2003)
'High End Cultural Studies' Carol A. Breckenridge et al., (eds) Cosmopolitanism and Nick Mansfield, Subjectiviy: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway, Southern Review 35, 3 (2003)
Review of Graham Meikle, Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, Journal of Australian Studies, March (2002)
Review of James Goodman (ed), Protest and Globalisation: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity, Journal of Australian Studies, September (2002)