Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. Previously, Tara has held academic positions in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She won the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities in 1998, along with other Awards in the areas of disability and cultural studies. In 2005, Tara won both the Murdoch University Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award. She was a finalist for the 2005 Australian of the Year and also the 2005 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community Service category. In 1999 and 2002, she was shortlisted for the Western Australian Citizen of the Year.
Tara teaches from first year right through to doctoral level. She teaches two first year modules at the University of Brighton: Thinking Pop and Creative Industries. She is also the programme leader of the Master of Arts Creative Media, teaching four module on campus and through distance education. These four modules are Media Literacies, Sonic Media, City Imaging and Teaching, Learning and Writing through Popular Culture.
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cmis/courses/postgraduate/maca/
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cmis/courses/postgraduate/maca/modules.php?PageId=458
Tara holds three Bachelor degrees: a first class honours in history, along with qualifications in Literature and Communication and Professional Education (passed with distinction). She also has three Masters Degrees: a Research Masters in history (passed with distinction), a Master of Letters in cultural studies and a Masters of Education (with first class honours). She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy. At the end of 2001, she gained a Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies, again attained with Distinction. She is currently enrolled in a Master of Physical and Health Education.
She is the author and editor of ten 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 (editor; 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 (editor; Oxford: Chandos, 2008)
Thinking Pop (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
Two further books are being written through 2009 and 2009 for Sage: Key Concepts in Popular Music and Understanding Cultural Studies.
A selection of her articles is listed below.
“Creative Doctorates/Creative Education,” Nebula, August 2007, www.nobleworld.biz/images/L_and_B.pdf
“Into the night-time economy,” Nebula, September 2007, 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)
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, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.musmancur.2006.09.005
“Popping the museum: the cases of Sheffield and Preston,” Museum and Society, November 2006, 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
2005
“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
“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
“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, www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au/issues/vol10_no1_action.html
2003
“Bending men through Beckham,” The Age, March 5, 2003, p 6
“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
“Libraries and the privatisation of knowledge,” MIA, No. 103, May 2002, 124-134
“Spirit 2000: An Olympic games for all Australians,” Australian Screen Education, Issue 28, 2002, pp. 217-218
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)
“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
“Together in Electric Dreams? Narratives of self, sex and romance in the film Electric Dreams.” Metro, No. 126/127, 2001, pp. 33-35
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
“A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape,” Australian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1999, pp. 149-158
“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
