Margaret Montgomerie

Margaret MontgomerieMargaret Montgomerie is Programme Leader in Joint Media Studies at De Montfort University. She teaches in the areas of Media Texts and Media Gender and Identity. Her research is mainly concerned with shifts in the representations of marginalised identities in popular screen fictions. Her current research is focussed on media representations of impairment and disability, working with Santesih at the University of Montpellier and The Outside Centre, Wolverhampton.

Margaret served as a committee member and conference organiser for AMFIT, one of the organisations which formed MeCCSA and she was also a Board Member of Console-ing Passions the USA-based Feminist Screen Research Conference organisation. She was a founder member of the MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and organised and hosted the inaugural meeting at the University of Derby in 2001. She is currently a coordinating committee member of the Network.

Coordinating committee

  • Heather Nunn
    Roehampton University
    (WMSN Chair,
    MeCCSA Executive)
  • Anita Biressi
    Roehampton University
    (WMSN Communications,
    MeCCSA Executive)
  • Rosalind Brunt
    Sheffield Hallam University
  • Kaitlynn Mendes
    University of Nottingham
  • Margaret Montgomerie
    De Montfort University
  • Karen Ross
    Liverpool University
  • Milly Williamson
    Brunel University