MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Management committee

Overview

Jane Arthurs

Jane Arthurs is currently Head of the School of Cultural Studies at UWE, where she has been a lecturer since 1993. It is a large school with undergraduate and postgraduate awards and an active research culture in Film, Media and Cultural Studies theory and practice. Her early career was in FE, but twenty years ago she moved to a higher education college in Warrington, and then to Thames Valley University in 1988. As chair of the SEFT education board during the 80s she played a national role in establishing media and film studies in the curriculum. Her teaching and research is in film and television studies, and feminist cultural studies. She has co-edited Women’s Bodies: Discipline and Transgression and Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material and co-authored The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception. Her most recent book is Television and Sexuality: Regulation and the Politics of Taste. She is a member of the MECCSA Women’s Media Studies Network for whom she organised a day event on ‘The New Sexism’. She is also currently a co-organiser of an interdisciplinary seminar series funded by the ESRC on ‘New Femininities’.

jane.arthurs@uwe.ac.uk