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Professor Julian Henriques
Julian's teaching includes cultural studies and scriptwriting. Both areas are influenced largely on his professional work as a film producer and writer-director and his practice as a sound artist. This has also informed his research interests in the field of street technologies and cultures (particularly reggae dancehall sound systems) and in sound studies. One important tradition in which he locates his work is that of British Cultural Studies and he is a founding trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation.
TRU Advisory Board
Professor Les Back
Les joined the department in 1993. This was something of a return to Goldsmiths for him because he studied at Goldsmiths as both postgraduate and undergraduate during the 1980s. Prior to returning to the college, he taught at the University of Birmingham in the Cultural Studies department and before that worked as a contract researcher at Birkbeck College and the Institute of Education.
TRU Members
Professor Lisa Blackman
Lisa is Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS). She works at the intersection of body studies and media and cultural theory and is particularly interested in subjectivity, affect, the body and embodiment. She has published four books in this area. The most recent is Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation, (2012, Sage). Her work in the area of embodiment and voice hearing has been recognised and commended for its innovative approach to mental health research and it has been acclaimed by the Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice, and has been taken up in professional psychiatric contexts.
Professor Marianne Franklin
Marianne convenes the MA Global Media and Politics. Her research interests draw on the humanities and social sciences as she has an academic background in History and Music, Social and Political Theory, and International Relations. Before coming to Goldsmiths she held teaching and research positions in Humanities, Social Science, and Engineering faculties at the University of Auckland (NZ), University of Amsterdam (NL), University for Humanistics (NL), and Columbia University (USA).
Professor Sarah Kember
Sarah is Director of Goldsmiths Press and her research focuses on the future of publishing, digital media, smart media, questions of mediation and feminist science and technology studies. She has investigated the possibilities of life after new media (studies), and has engaged in debates on artificial life and other aspects of the convergence between biology and computer science. She also works on imaging technologies and the relationship between photography and the digital and, as a writer as well as acedemic, she explores the ‘fusion’ of science and literary fiction.
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Joanna is a media theorist and artist, working on digital culture, artificial intelligence, photography, ethics and the planetary ecological crisis. Professor in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, she has also held visiting positions as Guest Professor at Shandong University in China, Winton Chair Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, US, and Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada. Zylinska is the author of seven books - most recently, The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018; online version freely available).
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