Within the English Deparement, I teach a range of courses within English Studies. For example, I teach (and have taught) courses ranging from English for Academic & Specific Purposes, classical British literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Film, Popular culture, new forms of literature.
I originally come from New Zealand and have a broad academic background based on education in New Zealand, Great Britain, and Sweden. My research areas include film and media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and post- and transhumanism.
My PhD in media and cultural studies is from Goldsmiths, University of London. I also hold postgraduate degrees in English literature, Indigenous Studies, and History specialising in political sociology, as well as a Diploma in Journalism from New Zealand.
Before entering academia, and still today, I worked as a political journalist in New Zealand and Europe for national and international media organisations.
My research interests are broad. For example, Indigenous & minority post and trans-colonialism, film & media, new literature genres, and developments in cultural studies such as post and transhumanism. My doctorate research project dealt with adapting a linguistic discourse analysis model to analyse representation of and dynamics between dominant and minority cultures in popular reality-ethnographic programmes.