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Dr Marissa Willcox

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Dr Marissa Willcox

Position

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

m.willcox (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Centre for Feminist Research

Marissa's work explores how young people engage with feminism through social media.

Marissa is a feminist media studies scholar working at the intersection of gender, culture, and digital media. Her research utilises digital ethnography and feminist theory to investigate how young people navigate subjectivity, gender, race, sexuality and everyday life through the analysis digital cultures. Focusing on feminist media production, sexual content creation, art-making, and activism, Marissa examines how these practices shape young people's experiences of belonging within social media environments.

Currently Marissa works with Professor Catherine Rottenberg on a Leverhulme funded research project which investigates the heightened visibility of menopause in mainstream and popular UK and US policy and media.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia 2023

Research interests

Marissa's research explores feminist art and activism, digital cultures, the body (currently menopause), and young people’s everyday engagement with social media. Her current research interest focuses on anti-feminism as it permeates policy and media contexts in the UK and the Netherlands.

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