Associate Professor Catherine Driscoll
Associate Professor 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 and 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 (a current ARC-funded discovery project).
Selected Publications
Books
Driscoll, C. (2010). Teen Film: A Critical Introduction, London: Berg.
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. and M. Gregg (forthcoming 2010). "The Order of Pixels: Towards a Genealogy of Online Culture". M. Mclelland and 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 and Vanessa Knights (eds.), Sounds of the Slayer: A Buffy Anthology. London: Ashgate Press.
Driscoll, C. and M. Gregg (2008). "Broadcast Yourself: Youth, Community and Intimacy Online". In Usha Rodriguez and 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., and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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 and 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. and M. Gregg. (forthcoming 2009), “My Profile: Virtual Ethnography”. In Emotion, Society and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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 is currently working on ARC Discovery project on "Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life" (2009-2012).
Catherine is on leave for all of 2009, on sabbatical at Columbia University in New York, but she will be back to teach GCST3604 Cultural Theory and WMST6904 Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture in semester 2, 2010.
Catherine has also been appointed Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts (University of Sydney) from the beginning of 2010.
Catherine is an active member of the SOPHI Gender and Modernity research group. On Tuesday 14 December she'll present a paper with Dr Prudence Black on "Emma Peel and the Vinyl Catstuit" as part of this program.
She is also scheduled to present several papers in 2010, including at the Association for Cultural Studies biannual "Crossroads" conference at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and at the International Communications Assocation in Singapore.