Qualifications: BA
MA DPhil
Present status: Senior Lecturer in Communications at
London Metropolitan University.
Education: University of East London: BA (hons) First
Class in Cultural Studies
University of Sussex: MA in Critical Theory/English
Literature
DPhil in Media and Cultural Studies
Teaching experience:
1990-1995 Part time tutor on British Film
Institute/Birkbeck College Certificate in Film studies.
1990-1995 Part time lecturer on BA Communication studies
at London Guildhall University.
1992- 1995 Tutorial fellow on BA Media Studies at Sussex
University.
1993-1995 Part time lecturer on BA Film Studies at
Westminster University.
1994-1995 Part time lecturer at Sussex University, Centre
for Continuing Education.
1995- Lecturer in Communications at London Metropolitan
University
1997- Visiting professor in Film and TV at Boston
University, British Programmes.
1997-2004 Visiting lecturer on MA Film Studies at
Westminster University.
1997- Senior Lecturer in Communications at London
Metropolitan University.
Exhibitions:
RePossessed, a travelling multi-media exhibition
(co-curated and devised with Tony Cryer, Che Guevara
John, Chris Lane, Ane Robinson and Souli Spiropoulou).
Photography: Group show: East End Photo-Open 2007 at Mile
End Arts Pavilion.
Publications:
Book:
Alfred Hitchcock (2005) Pearson Education
Journal Articles:
'Ushering the '80s: Chariots of Fire' in Sussex Working
Papers in British Cinema, 1993.
Review of Cultural Populism by Jim McGuigan in Media,
Culture and Society, vol. 15 (1993), pp 506-539.
Review of British Cinema and Thatcherism, ed. Lester
Friedman and Deadline at Dawn by Judith Williamson in
Media, Culture and Society, vol. 16 (1994), pp 538-539.
'Image and Identity in Metropolitan Sexual Subcultures'
in Diatribe, no. 5, Winter 1994/5.
'Introduction' to Subject Matters: A Journal of
Communications and Subjectivity, vol.1, no. 1.
'Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Subjectivity' in
Subject Matters, vol. 1, no.1, Winter 2003, pp 9-28.
'The Ethics of Truth' in Subject Matters, vol. 1, no.2,
Spring 2004, pp37-46.
'Faultlines: Simon Critichley in discussion on Alain
Badiou' (edited with Jon Baldwin) in Polygraph: An
International Journal of Culture and Politics, no.17,
(2005) pp295-307.
'Introduction' in Subject Matters Special Edition: Badiou
and Subjectivity, vol. 2, no. 2, (2005) pp1-4.
'Afterword' in Subject Matters, vol. 2, no.1, Winter 2005
pp85-90.
'Vertigo and RePossessed' in Vertigo, Winter 2005.
'Introduction' and 'The Spoto Myth' in RePossessed
exhibition catalogue CD, October 2006.
'Fear Itself: a Post-psychoanalytic Approach to Cinematic
Anxiety' translated into Greek in The Scarecrow: Fear in
Art and Life Greece: Averoff Museum (2007).
(With Chris Lane) Interview with John Wyver in Vertigo,
Autumn 2007.
Book chapters commissioned:
'Heroic Satans and Other Hitchcockian Heresies', chapter
for Hitchcock as Moralist, edited by R. Barton Palmer and
Steven Saunders for publication by State University
University of New York Press (2008).
'Narrative Supplements: DVD and the Idea of the "text"'
(with Paul Cobley), chapter for New Narratives: Theory
and Practice edited by Bronwen Thomas and Ruth Page for
publication by University of Nebraska Press (2008).
'Alfred Hitchcock' 6,000 word chapter for Blackwell
Companion to Crime Fiction edited by Lee Horsley and
Charles Rzepka (2009).