Prof Tara Brabazon
BA, BLitt, BEd, Grad Dip In. Stds, MA, MLitt. Cult. Stds, MEd, PhD
TM Brabazon
Professor of Media Studies
contact:
Arts and Media
Watts Building
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642291
Email: T.M.Brabazon@brighton.ac.uk
Biography
Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. Previously, Tara has held academic positions in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has won the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities, along with other awards in the areas of disability and cultural studies. In 2005, Tara won both the Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award
Tara was a finalist for the 2005 Australian of the Year and also the 2005 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community Service category.
Tara holds three bachelor degrees, three masters degrees, a graduate diploma and a doctorate. Her expertise sweeps from media and cultural studies through to history and internet studies, with all her qualifications demonstrating a deep commitment to education. She is currently enrolled in a Master of Physical and Health Education.
She is the author of nine books: Tracking the Jack - A retracing of the Antipodes (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000), Ladies who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002), Digital Hemlock: Internet education and the poisoning of teaching (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002), Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music (Perth: UWA Press, 2005), From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, popular memory, cultural studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), Playing on the periphery: sport, identity and memory (London: Routledge, 2006), The University of Google: education in the (post) information age (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), The revolution will not be downloaded: dissent in the digital age (Oxford: Chandos, 2008) and Thinking Pop (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). Two books are currently being completed for Sage to be published in 2009: Key Concepts in Popular Music and Understanding Cultural Studies.
Tara is the author of over one hundred refereed articles and book chapters, alongside journalistic works. She is the popular culture correspondent for Arts Hub (http://www.artshub.co.uk/uk/listNews.asp?catId=9&sType=column)
and Online Opinion.
She is also the Director of the Popular Culture Collective. The PCC is a community of scholars, musicians, and sound and vision practitioners who build creative industries initiatives and further critical thinking about popular culture. Please see www.popularculturecollective.com
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History (UWA, 1990),
- Bachelor of Literature and Communication (Murdoch, 1992),
- Bachelor of Education - Passed with Distinction (CQU, 1998),
- Graduate Diploma of Internet Studies - Passed with Distinction (Curtin, 2001),
- Master of Arts by Research in History -Passed with Distinction (UWA, 1992),
- Master of Letters in Cultural Studies (CQU, 1994),
- Master of Education with honours (UNE, 2006),
- Doctor of Philosophy (Murdoch, 1995)
Research interests
Tara’s research interests encompass popular culture, creative industries and media education. Throughout her career, she has worked the intellectual seam between history and cultural studies to create innovative scholarship in cultural policy, city imaging and popular memory.
Best known for her research in and on digital dissent, published in such books as Digital Hemlock and The University of Google, her goal is to encourage a socially aware and intellectually rigorous use of the web in education, public discourse and social activism.
Her current projects include write a new history of cultural studies for SAGE, with the title Understanding Cultural Studies. Her aim is to ensure that the next generation of students not only understand the past of the paradigm, but can use it in an active and provocative way in their scholarly and personal futures. She is also writing a book on popular music studies, titled Key Concepts in Popular Music, with the aim of ensuring that the full consequences of the MP3 and iPod ‘revolution’ are recognized through all genres and modes of music.
RAE outputs
The University of Google: education in the (post)information age, Aldershot: Ashgate. No. of pages: 222, ISBN: 075467097X
The University of Google is not only a work of digital dissent but initiates Web Studies 2.0. Building on her foundational work in Digital Hemlock, it does not celebrate Facebook, YouTube or MySpace, but deploys an intricate alignment of literacy theory, popular cultural studies, postcolonial theory and education studies to demonstrate how citizens, teachers, librarians and students can best use, manage and transform digital information.
Frank Webster stated that this book “will have a huge impact on everyone in higher education, helping those suspicious of new media to formulate their criticisms and those eager to adopt it better placed to introduce it appropriately.” Alan Jemnkins confirmed that it is “a passionate, scholarly, deeply considered and, at the same time, ‘practical’ critique of how universities internationally confuse access to digital information with devleopign educated and critical citizens. The book will be of value in postiivelyshaping both pedagogic practice and institutional policies.”
Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Memory, Identity, London: Routledge. No. of pages: 248, hb ISBN: 0415375614, eb ISBN 0203099109
Playing on the periphery tracks the movement of sports away from England. Offering a considered theorization of margins, borders, boundaries, edges and peripheries, this text shows how popular memory is constructed in the liminal space between sport and identity.
The book stands against easy pronouncements of globalization, standardization and sameness. By tracking the ambivalent positioning of English sports around the world, the function of Englishness is tracked and transformed. Most significantly, it applies Bhabha’s, Balibar’s and Spivak’s theorization of postcoloniality to sport and enables the configuration of an Antipodes that dialogues and probes the limits of Englishness in contemporary Australia and New Zealand.
From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Culture, Popular Memory, Aldershot: Ashgate. No. of pages: 196, ISBN: h/b: 0754643964 and p/b: 0754643972
From Revolution to Revelation offers a new model of popular memory. It refreshes the theorization of the Popular Memory Group at the Birmingham Centre and creates a new weave with contemporary popular culture.
The focus and application of this new model is Generation X. A categorization popularized by Douglas Coupland, this term is used as a framing device for the study of popular culture.
Susan Hopkins, in her review of the book, stated that, “speaking of generationalism, I should also admit part of the personal pleasure of this book was watching one of 'us' boldly rewrite the rules of academic cultural studies. Tara Brabazon may be a disaffected Generation Xer at heart but she is also now an influential senior academic, award-winning teacher and finalist for Australian of the Year. The real issue, only touched on in conclusion, might be how does Generation X learn to grow old? Until then, 'my generation' may well pass the hair gel, the Haircut 100 vinyl and keep on reading/dancing with the indefatigable Tara Brabazon--it's 'our' turn now.”
2005 Journal Paper
“What have you ever done on the telly? The Office, (post) reality television and (post) work,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8.1, pp. 105-121, Print ISSN: 13678779 Online ISSN: 1460356X
This is the first refereed article to be published on the television programme, The Office. Significantly, the article also explores two neglected areas of contemporary cultural studies: comedy and work.
This research aligns post-work theories from Stanley Aronowitz and Henry Giroux with the post-men’s studies theories of Jeff Hearn, while also probing the historical positioning of the programme in little England, rather than a Great Britain. Instead of positioning the programme in reality or lifestyle television or in mock-doc frameworks, a broader palette of history is deployed, activating new analyses of post-work, comedy and masculinity.
Teaching
Tara Brabazon teaches six modules, two at first year undergraduate level and four in the Master of Arts Creative Media, of which she is the Programme Leader. She is also an experienced doctoral supervisor, having supervised 24 PhD students.
Tara’s first year modules are Creative Industries and Thinking Pop. Creative Industries investigates new models and ways of thinking about the relationship between creativity and economic development. There is consideration of a suite of industries, including popular music, fashion, tourism, sport and education, while also preparing students to enter the knowledge economy.
Thinking Pop has a simple purpose: to prepare students to write about popular culture in an intelligent and considered fashion. We explore the nature of publishing as an industry, the transformations of books and journalism, but also focus on improving how students write about popular culture, to create Thinking Pop.
Tara teaches four Master of Arts Creative Media Modules, in both on campus and distance education modes. City Imaging investigates how cities have been understood through history and policy, but also how they are branded, marketed and transformed. There is attention to musical cities and sporting cities, along with gentrification and decomposing urban environments.
Sonic Media is one of the emerging areas of the media and cultural studies suite of topics. Taking the transformation of digital compression seriously, we investigate not only popular music, but auditory cultures. We probe how sound creates space, place and, and initiates either social change or conformity. There is attention to electronica and oral cultures. We explore the use of sound in research, but also popular music as a soundtrack for building communities.
Media Literacies probes one of the most controversial and challenging areas of media education. How do we combine ‘new’ and ‘old’ media – the analogue and the digital – in a way that is intellectually rigorous and socially aware of the transformations of work, leisure and education? Recognizing the controversies of literacy standards, we explore how this debate is moderated and managed through aligning the insights of media studies and education studies.
Teaching, learning and writing through popular culture takes as its focus the many ways in which pop is managed in education and the public domain. We explore theories of popular culture, but apply these to not only formal educational curricula but intuitive and everyday learning. Students also focus on the writing of (and about) popular culture.
Tara is an experienced doctoral supervisor. A selection of her PhD students’ topics is listed below:
- Moving off the Beaten Track: Developing a Critical Literacy in Backpacker Discourse
- Billy Bragg: mixing pop and politics
- Witnessing death
- Static and Flux: Excess in the New Russian Television,
- Exit Planet Face, http://prospero.murdoch.edu.au/search/a?Evans+Amanda
- In the outer, not on the outer: women and Australian Rules Football, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060913.85805
- Fashioning the executive look: the building of professional woman, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070307.121413
- The invisible empire: border protection on the electronic frontier, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051222.112058
- Beyond the digital diva: women@theworldwideweb, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20041001.92507
- Women and Generation X film, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050930.124547
- Re-branding the Creative Industries: Probing the social application of the education, the new economy and creative industries
- Big India and Little Australia
- Movement
- Questions of Popular Cult(ure), http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040428.152619
- Diversity in Greek Broadcasting
- Bitch: the politics of angry women, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040820.135459
- Thinking on your feet, http://prospero.murdoch.edu.au/search/a?Quinn+Steven
- Schlub politics: tracking the Michael Moore Effect
- Being Antipodean: regionalism through popular cultural policy
- Making the world England
- Rock ‘n’ roll cinema, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061019.151505
- Walking down the road to Wigan Pier
- Popular queer studies, http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/journal_contributors/nass_contributor_c_woo.htm
- Supersizing fitness: putting the class back in exercise classes
Publications
A selection of Tara’s publications is listed below.
Monographs
- Understanding Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2009)
- Key Concepts in Popular Music (SAGE, 2009)
- Thinking Pop: war, terrorism and popular culture, ( Ashgate, 2008)
- The revolution will not be downloaded: dissent in the digital age, (Chandos, 2008)
- The University of Google, (Ashgate, 2007)
- Playing on the periphery: sport, identity and memory, (Routledge, 2006)
- From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, popular memory, cultural studies, (Ashgate, 2005)
- Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music, (UWA Press, 2005)
- Digital Hemlock: Internet education and the poisoning of teaching, (UNSW Press, 2002)
- Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women, (UNSW Press, 2002)
- Tracking the Jack: A retracing of the Antipodes, (UNSW Press, 2000)
Articles
2007
- “Beyond the Boarding Pass: Managing Diversity in Universities,” The Julie Mango, Vol. 3, August 2007, http://www.juliemango-publications.com/essays3rdedition/tarabrabazon.html
- “Creative Doctorates/Creative Education,” Nebula, August 2007, http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/L_and_B.pdf
- “Into the night-time economy,” Nebula, September 2007, http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/M_and_B.pdf
- “Mobile learning: the iPodification of Universities,” Nebula, April 2007, www.nobleworld.biz/images/Brabazon.pdf
- “Punking yoga,” Reconstruction: studies in contemporary culture, February 2007, www.reconstruction.eserver.org/071/brabazon.shtml
- “Sex in the spinning” EnterText, Vol. 7, No. 3, Winter 2007 (URL pending)
- “Two bars in control,” Online Opinion, October 17, 2007, http://www.artshub.co.uk/uk/listNews.asp?catId=9&sType=column
- “28.06.42.12,” Online Opinion, November 8, 2007, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6618
2006
- “Fitness is a feminist issue,” Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 49, March 2006, pp. 65-83.
- “Getting a university education is not like grocery shopping,” Online Opinion, November 17, 2006, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=5155
- “Giving scissors to the Sisters: Ana Matronic and cutting up the popular cultural landscape,” MP, May 23, 2006, http://www.academinist.org.mp/current/a1mp06.html
- “Hearing the difference: new theories of Audio Culture,” Perfect Beat, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2006, http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au/perfectbeat/reviews/v7n4/v7n4_Brabazon.pdf
- “Herpes for the information age: plagiarism and the infection of universities,” Fast Capitalism, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_2/brabazon.htm
- “Museums and popular culture revisited: Kevin Moore and the politics of pop,” Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 283-301, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science
- “Off World Sounds: building a collaborative soundscape,” M/C., Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2006, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0605/13-brabazonmallinder.php
“Popping the museum: the cases of Sheffield and Preston,” Museum and Society, November 2006, http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/issue%2011/brabazon.pdf - “Revealing exchange: review of Ten pound Pom,” Australian Historical Studies, April 2006, http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ahs/back_issues/127/toc_127.html
- “Socrates in earpods: the ipodification of education,” Fast Capitalism, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/brabazon.htm, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 2006
- “The Google Effect,” Libri, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 157-167, http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2006-3pp157-167.pdf
“Thinking pop literacies,” Australian Library Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, November 1, 2006, http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6300237/Thinking-pop-literacies-or-why.html and http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/55.4/full.text/ALJ11.06.pdf
2005
- “BA (Telemarketing), Online Opinion, October 27, 2005, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=122
- “Burning towers and ashen learning: September 11 and the changes to critical literacy,” Australian Library Journal, Vol. 54, No. 7, February 2005, pp. 6-23, http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/55.4/full.text/ALJ11.06.pdf
- “Digital Disposal: the iPodification of waste,”Verb, Vol. 3, No. 1, October, 2005, http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/article/view/21/22
- “Freedom from choice: who pays for customer service in the knowledge economy?” M/C special issue “Order,” Vol. 7, No. 6, January 2005, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0501/02-brabazon.php(.)
- “From Eleanor Rigby to Nannanet: the greying of the World Wide Web,” First Monday, Vol. 10, No. 12, 2005, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/brabazon/index.html
- “It’s in the post: the post-subcultures reader,” Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 24, No. 3, September 2005, p. 56, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-137789050.html
- “Jingling the single: the i-Podification of the music industry,” AQ, Vol. 77, September 2005 (written with Felicity Cull, Mike Kent and Leanne McRae), http://www.aips.net.au/aqjournal/issue.php?id=21
- “There is a light that never goes out: Johnny Marr and the flickerings of post-Smiths music,” EnterText special issue ‘Citing Cities,’ Vol. 5, No. 2, Autumn/Winter 2005, http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~acsrrrm/entertext/issue_5_2.htm
- “What have you ever done on the telly? The Office, (post) reality television and (post) work,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2005, pp. 105-121
2004
- “A house on a street in the town I’m from,” Journal of Australian Studies, Issue 25, July 2004, http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/print.cgi?n=0521542952
- “Bachelor of Arts (Google): Graduating to information literacy,” Keynote Paper, IDATER on-line conference on e-learning in Science and Design Technology, Loughborough University, August 2004 (URL: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cd/docs_dandt/research/ed/elearning/Lead%20papers/BrabazonPDF.pdf
- “From leotards to Lyotard: a journey through film, theory and politics,” Senses of Cinema, July 2004 http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/04/32/pandoras_box.html
- “Perth’s Spin,” Online Opinion, April 15, 2004, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=2138
- “Skirt, cap and gown: How fair are universities to female postgraduate students?” Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 161-175, http://www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au/issues/vol10_no1_action.html
- “Who cares? Perth Glory and the making of (Australian) Association football,” AQ, June 2004, pp. 25-32, http://www.aips.net.au/aqjournal/issue.php?id=13
- “Violence against women and sport’s culture of women as accessories,” Online Opinion, May 4, 2004, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2181, (with Debbie Hindley)
- “You’ve got to have a good haircut,” Senses of Cinema, March 2004, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/31/live_forever.html
2003
- “A study in black and grey: Aberfan and the politics of forgetting,” M/C special issue “Share,” http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0304/07-blackandgrey.php, April 23, 2003. Reprinted (with permission) by On Line Opinion, “Shared tragedy and mediated grief: television as collective witnessing,” http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=343
- “Bending men through Beckham,” The Age, March 5, 2003, p 6
- “Billy Bragg: songs and revolution, pop and politics,” On Line Opinion, October 7, 2003, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=770
- “How writing skills can be transformed through a shared personal tragedy,” On Line Opinion, September 5, 2003, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=678 (written with Angela Jones)
- “The revolution will not be shushed: guerrilla librarians fight for literacy,” On Line Opinion, July 23, 2003, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=568
- “Whiteboard, docs and a boa: Edith Cowan and the making of political women,” AQ, Vol. 75, No. 4, July-August 2003, pp. 28-34
2002
- “A better man?” International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 5, No. 1, 2002, pp. 45-88
- “Bonfire of the literacies: (il)Literacy in the informatic age,” Social Alternatives, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2002, pp. 55-60
- “Dancing through the revolution,” Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 19-24, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84211641.html
- “Book Memory and the administration of knowledge,” Libri, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 28-35, http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2002-1pp28-35.pdf
- “Libraries and the privatisation of knowledge,” MIA, No. 103, May 2002, 124-134
- “Think tactically – act regionally: a cultural memory introduction,” Transformations, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_03/editorial.shtml, Vol. 3, 2002
- “Spirit 2000: An Olympic games for all Australians,” Australian Screen Education, Issue 28, 2002, pp. 217-218
- “We’re one short for the crossing: the reading of a wall,” Transformations, Visual Memory Special Issue, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_03/pdf/brabazon.pdf, Vol. 3, 2002
2001
- “Buff Puffing an Empire,” Continuum, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 187-200
- “Communication in practice: the supervision of distance education teachers,” Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 28 (2), 2001, pp.91-110
- “Introduction: Serenity Now,” Continuum, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 141-144 (Written with Wendy Parkins)
- “Feminists Walls: Abbey Road and Popular Memory,” New Zealand’s Women’s Studies Journal, Visual Cultures Special Issue, 2001, pp. 66-84 (I also took the cover photography for this issue)
- “How imagined are virtual communities?” Mots Pluriels, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801tb2.html, No. 18, August 2001
- “Internet teaching and the administration of knowledge,” First Monday, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/brabazon/index.html, June 2001
- “Selling silicon snake oil: the buying and selling of education,” AQ, September 2001, pp. 27-35
- “Theoretical echoes and textual apparitions: Postmodern media culture,” Media International Australia, No. 98, February 2001, pp. 184-185
- “The spectre of the spinster,” Senses of Cinema, [on-line], http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/13/spinster.html, no. 13, April 2001
- “Together in Electric Dreams? Narratives of self, sex and romance in the film Electric Dreams.” Metro, No. 126/127, 2001, pp. 33-35
- “Welcome to the Robbiedome,” Feature article, M/C – ‘Sick’ special issue, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0106/robbie.php, No. 2, 2001
2000
- “Bette Davis and her Camillias,” Hecate, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2000, pp. 98-112
- “Dancing through a memory,” Irish Studies Review, Vol.8, No. 2, March 2000, pp. 286-288
- “From crayons to perfume, to content providers: teaching in the Informatic Age,” Social Alternatives, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 40-46
- “He lies like a rug: pondering digital memory,” MIA, No. 96, August 2000, pp. 56-64. This article was reprinted (by request) in Media Development (United Kingdom), No. 1, January 2001, pp. 6-12
- “Reading (on) a red sofa,” Continuum, Vol. 14, 2000, pp. 140-143
- “Time for a change or more of the same? Les Mills and the masculinisation of aerobics,” Sporting Traditions, Vol. 17, No. 1, November 2000, pp. 97-112
- “We’ll always have Paris? Fighting the People’s War in Popular Memory,” Senses of cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/2/Paris.html, [on-line], No. 2, January 2000.
1999
- “A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape,” Australian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1999, pp. 149-158
- “A red light sabre to go – and other histories of the present,” M/C, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1999, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/9906/sabre.php
- “Bored of the dance: not in this Irish world,” AQ, May-June 1999, pp. 10-17 (written with Paul Stock)
- “Britain’s last line of Defence: Miss Moneypenny and the desperations of filmic feminism,” International Women’s Studies Review, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 1999, pp. 489-496. (an earlier version of this article appeared in Hecate, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1998, pp. 93-104.)
- “Interrupting the festivities: Digitising HAL’s memory,” LIBRI, Vol. 49, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 159-165
- “Noel Coward’s Singapore Sling,” The Southern Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1999, pp. 72-85
- “Pizza for a Princess: Consuming Julie Burchill’s Diana,” in Hecate’s Australian Women’s Book Review (AWBR), Vol. 11, 1999, pp. 4-5
- “Star Wars and Writing Popular Memory,” Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 11-16
- “We’ll always have Tatooine?” Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1999, pp. 1-10.
- “We Love You Ireland:’ Riverdance and stepping through Antipodean memory,” Irish Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, 301-311 (written with Paul Stock)
1998
- “Brixton’s Aflame: Television History Workshop and the other Battle of Britain,” Limina, Vol. 4, 1998, 49-55
- “I’ll never be your woman: The Spice Girls and New Flavours of Feminism,” Social Alternatives, Vol. 17, 1998(written with Amanda Evans), pp. 39-42.
- “Save Ferris? A guide to Xer media/citizenship,” Metro Education, No. 14, 1998, pp.9-13
- “What’s the story morning glory? Perth Glory and the imagining of Englishness,” Sporting Traditions, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1998, pp53-66
1997
- “Boot politics: pondering the Antipodean Doctor Marten Boot,” Continuum, Vol. 11, 1997
- “Disco(urse) Dancing: Reading the Body Politic,” Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1997, pp. 104-114
- “Making it Big: Julie Burchill, Bitch Politics and Writing in Public,” UTS Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997. This piece was also reprinted (by request) in the refereed on-line journal, Australian Humanities Review, June 1997
- “The scent of a green carnation,” Social Semiotics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1997
- “Trace THE FACE: style journalism in the 1980s,” Limina, Vol. 3, 1997, pp. 24-32
1996
- “‘It started on Queen Street’: popular music, cultural identity and the question of landscape,” Continuum, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1996, pp. 152-167
- “No future? Postyouth and the politics of memory,” Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 1996.
- “What will you wear to the Revolution? Thatcher’s Genderation and the fashioning of change,” Hecate, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996, pp. 114-127
1995
- “Queer Sisters: The Politics of Fag Haggery”, (written with Vanessa Evangelista), Antithesis, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1995, pp. 67-74. This article was also reprinted (by request) in Limina, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1995
- “Something queer is going on here: A binary outlaw’s tour through Orlando,” Critical Inqueeries, Vol. 1, 1995, pp. 113-128. This article was also reprinted (by request), in shortened form, in Outskirts, Vol. 1, May 1996, pp. 4-7
1994
- “Reading Tilda: A Swinton guide through bodily textualization,” Social Semiotics, Vol. 4, 1994, pp. 9-30
1993
- “At your own risk: Derek Jarman and the (semiotic) death of a film maker”, Social Semiotics, Vol. 3, 1993, pp. 183-200
- “From Penny Lane to Dollar Drive: Liverpool and a Beatle-led recovery”, Public History Review, Vol. 2, 1993, pp. 108-22
- “‘What are you lookin’ at?’ Madonna, Sex and a Medusian vision”, (written with Vanessa Evangelista), Antithesis, Vol. 6, No. 2, July 1993, pp. 71-80
Conferences
- Invited keynote address, Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), October 8-11, 2006
- “The Google Effect,” School Library Conference, Western Australia, June 17, 2006
- “Building popular cultural literacies,” School Library Conference, Western Australia, June 17, 2006
- “Socrates with earphones,” CCCS, University of Queensland, March 20, 2006
- “How does it feel?” Postgraduate Development Seminar, CCCS, University of Queensland, March 19, 2006
- “From Eleanor Rigby to Nannanet,” Invited keynote address, Australian Local Government Association, August 24, 2005
- “Speed searching and the killing of knowledge,” Invited keynote lecture, Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, July 7-10, 2005, http://radio.adelaide.edu.au/festivalofideas/audio05/university_of_google.mp3
- “Won’t get googled again,” New South Wales Teacher-Librarian Association, Sydney, January 27, 2004, http://radio.adelaide.edu.au/festivalofideas/audio05/university_of_google.mp3
- “Plotting the revolution,” New South Wales Teacher-Librarian Association, Sydney, August 8, 2003
- “Fitness is a feminist issue,” Keynote address, International Woman in Leadership Conference, Edith Cowan University, Churchlands Western Australia, November 2002
- “Let’s make lots of money: Digital Deals and Trafficking in the truth,” Keynote address 3rd Academic Symposium, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2002.
- “Double Fold or Double Take,” Stadt-und Universitatsbibliothek, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2002
- “The internet and the future of education,” Public Lecture, Melbourne University, August 21, 2002.
- “The teacher’s body,” Seminar and Workshop, Melbourne University, August 21, 2002
- “Fasten your seatbelts: Bette Davis and lessons in leadership,” Keynote Address, International Women and Leadership Conference, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle Western Australia, November 2000
- “Making it Big: Julie Burchill, bitching and writing, Guest Speaker and Keynote Address, Women of Influence Series, Australian National University, September 26, 2001
- “Tara’s 10 Tips for a successful post-University career,” Keynote Address, Graduation Ceremony (Singapore) – Murdoch University, September 1999.
- “A fierce intelligence?” Inaugural Edith Cowan Lecture, Karrakatta Club, August 1, 2003
- “Breasts on the Bridge: Captain Janeway and feminist leadership,” After dinner address, Curtin University Administrative Network, November 29, 2001
- After-Dinner Address – Collaborate or Perish: Association for Tertiary Education Management Conference, Friday May 26th, 2000
- “Beyond Calais: Michael Palin and the construction of a foreigner,” Australian European History Conference, University of Western Australia, June 1999.
- “Doc Politics: Pondering the Antipodean Doctor Marten boot,” Presentation at the 1996 Cultural Studies Conference - In Search of the Public, Fremantle, Western Australia
- “From pulp to pop: an introduction to the world of popular culture,” Public Lecture as part of the Stout Centre Popular Culture Seminar Series, Victoria University of Wellington, March 1995.
- “Making it Big: Julie Burchill, Bitch Politics and Writing in Public,” Seminar at the CQU Series, Rapporteur: Graeme Turner, November 1995.
- “Settling accounts with Birmingham,” Paper for the Whose cultural studies? Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, December 11-13, 1995
- “The Future of New Zealand Cultural Studies,” Presentation for the Culture Shocks/Pacific Spaces Symposium, July 1998, Wellington New Zealand
- “There is a light and it never goes out,” The Smiths Conference: Why pamper life’s complexities?, Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 4-6, 2005.
- “‘What are you lookin’ at?’ Madonna, Sex and a Medusian vision”, Presentation of a Paper with Vanessa Evangelista, Bodies of Knowledge Conference, Curtin University, September 28, 1993
- “What have you ever done on the telly?” Presentation for the Australia and New Zealand Cultural Studies Association Conference, Perth, Murdoch University, December 9, 2004
- “You’re dancing with the chairman of the Board,” Paper for the ANZCA conference, Edith Cowan University, June 2001
Publications from the document repository
Brabazon, T. (2007) 28.06.42.12. Online opinion. ISSN 1442-8458
Brabazon, T. (2007) Two bars in control. Online opinion. ISSN 1442-8458
Brabazon, T. and Mallinder, S. (2007) Into the night-time economy: work, leisure, urbanity and the creative industries. Nebula, 4 (3). pp. 161-178. ISSN 1449-7751
Brabazon, T. (2007) Beyond the boarding pass: managing diversity in universities. The Julie Mango: international online journal of creative expressions, 3.
Laing, S. and Brabazon, T. (2007) Creative doctorates, creative education? Aligning universities with the creative economy. Nebula, 4 (2). pp. 253-267. ISSN 1449-7751
Brabazon, T. (2007) Mobile learning: the iPodifcation of universities. Nebula, 4 (1). pp. 19-30. ISSN 1449-7751
Brabazon, T. (2007) Punking yoga: reconstructing post/neo/colonial fashion and movement. Reconstruction: studies in contemporary culture, 7 (1). ISSN 1547-4348
Brabazon, T. (2007) The University of Google: education in the (post)information age. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780754670971
Brabazon, T. (2006) Museums and popular culture revisited: Kevin Moore and the politics of pop. Museum management and curatorship, 21 (4). pp. 283-301. ISSN 0260-4779
Brabazon, T. (2006) Getting a university education is not like grocery shopping. Online opinion. ISSN 1442-8458
Brabazon, T. and Mallinder, S. (2006) Popping the museum: the cases of Sheffield and Preston. Museum and society, 4 (2). pp. 96-112. ISSN 1479-8360
Brabazon, T. (2006) Socrates in earpods: the iPodification of education. Fast capitalism, 2 (1). ISSN 1930-014X
Brabazon, T. (2006) Giving scissors to the Sisters: Ana Matronic and cutting up the popular cultural landscape. MP, 1 (4). ISSN 1939-330X
Brabazon, T. and Mallinder, S. (2006) Off world sounds: building a collaborative soundscape. M/C journal, 9 (2). ISSN 1441-2616
Brabazon, T. (2006) Fitness is a feminist issue. Australian feminist studies, 21 (49). pp. 65-83. ISSN 0816-4649 (print), 1465-3303 (online)
Brabazon, T. (2006) Herpes for the information age: plagiarism and the infection of universities. Fast capitalism, 2 (2). ISSN 1930-014X
Brabazon, T. (2006) Playing on the periphery: sport, identity and memory. Sport in the global society. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 0415375614
Brabazon, T. (2005) From revolution to revelation: generation X, popular memory and cultural studies. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 0754643964
Brabazon, T., Cull, F., Kent, M. and McRae, L. (2005) Jingling the single: the i-podification of the music industry. AQ, 77 (3). pp. 26-36. ISSN 1443-3605
Brabazon, T. (2005) What have you ever done on the telly? The Office, (post) reality television and (post) work. International journal of cultural studies, 8 (1). pp. 101-117. ISSN 1460-356X
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