Author of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published widely in cultural studies, including ten books. The most recent is From Popular Culture to Everyday Life (2014). He is also on editorial/advisory boards in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, the University of Henan, the University of Vienna and the University of Wuhan.

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Dr Karen Atkinson lectures in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland and is an Associate Lecturer on the MA in Mass Communications at the University of Leicester. She has published research papers in this area, as well as in the field of critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. She is co-author of Language and Power in the Modern World (2003).

Thanks go to John-Paul Green and Dr Tony Purvis for supplying materials for earlier versions of this website and to Allan Verth for help with contemporary examples of popular culture. Special thanks is also given to the many students on the ‘Cultural Theory and Popular Culture’ module, co-taught by Dr Karen Atkinson and Professor John Storey for their insightful feedback and useful discussion of twenty-first-century popular culture texts and practices.

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Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of Rhetoric of Culture and the Media, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Poland. Her research interests embrace critical theory, popular culture, digital materialism, posthumanism and love studies, but specifically focus on the formation of social and cultural norms and aesthetics under changing cultural practices. She is co-editor of Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things (with Karolina Lebek, Routledge 2016) and The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice (with Michael Gratzke, Routledge 2017). She is currently working on a special issue of Open Cultural Studies ‘Media and Emotions. The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture’, co-edited with Toby Miller. Her book, The Aesthetics of Camp: Post-Queer Gender and Popular Culture in under contract with I. B. Tauris.