Dr Lisa Blackman
Media and Communications
Senior Lecturer | BSc PhD
l.blackman (@gold.ac.uk)
Research Interests
My research focuses upon the intersections between critical psychology and cultural theory and attempts to exploit and push these interconnections to find new ways of thinking through the ‘psychological’. My research focuses upon psychiatric culture, therapy culture, media cultures and subjectivity (recent AHRB funded project), health and illness, and the psychological dimensions of different cultural forms. My previous research has been in the areas of psychiatric culture and the cultural production of psychopathology and magazine culture (AHRB grant, Inventing the Psychological). I am currently working on a research bid to explore the emergence and concept of ‘emotional branding’ and its links to suggestive communication. I am one of the members of the research group, Affect, Subjectivity and the Body, as well as one of the founding editors of Subjectivity: The International Journal of Critical Psychology (Palgrave). I have also worked with the Hearing Voices Network.
Recent Publications
Blackman, Lisa. 2011. Affect, Performance and Queer Subjectivities. Cultural Studies, 25(2), pp. 183-199.
Blackman, Lisa. 2010. Embodying Affect; Voice-hearing, Telepathy, Suggestion and Modelling the Non-Conscious. Body & Society, 16(1), pp. 163-192.
Blackman, Lisa and Harbord, Janet. 2010. Technologies of Mediation and the Affective: Taking the Virtual Environment of mediacityuk as a case study. In: D Hauptamann and W Neidich, eds. Cognitive Architecture: From Bio-politics to Noo-Politics: architecture and mind in the Age of Communication and Information. Amsterdam: O10, pp. 302-323.
Blackman, Lisa. 2009. The Remaking of Sexual Kinds: Queer Subjects and the Limits or Representation. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13(2), pp. 122-135.
Blackman, Lisa. 2008. The Body: The Key Concepts. Oxford and New York: Berg.
Blackman, Lisa. 2008. Is Happiness Contagious? New Formations, 63, pp. 15-32.
Blackman, Lisa. 2008. Affect, Relationality and the Problem of Personality. Theory, Culture & Society, 25(1), pp. 27-51.