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 ARC Discovery project, Working From Home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity.

Using an innovative methodology that included 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. The book documenting this project, Work's Intimacy, is published by Polity Press in 2010.

Melissa is Organisational Secretary and Australia/New Zealand representative for the Association for Cultural Studies which runs Crossroads. In 2009, she was co-organiser of the ARC Cultural Research Network "State of the Industry" conference, which debated the future for cultural research in the university sector.

A detailed list of Melissa's publications can be found on her weblog, Home Cooked Theory - one of the longest-running academic blogs in Australia.