home cooked theory

Counter-Heroics & Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies

To my utter delight, this issue of Continuum, the culmination of a collaboration between Jean, Kris, Jane and I, finally arrived in my pigeon hole today. It feels good to be able to hold an object I helped produce, especially this week, as I finish a really positive teaching semester only to face the nightmare [...]

Weekends at Bunnings

New study

This is where the theory will be cooking at my place from now on. On Saturday morning these walls were mustard! For non-Australian readers, Bunnings is the biggest home hardware franchise taking over the southern hemisphere. They have ‘free ladies nights’ (no, not that kind) and sell sausages outside their stores on weekends. Although [...]

Getting close

The page proofs for Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices arrive tonight, so it’s lucky I’ve been getting the index underway during the little pockets of time in between teaching duties. I also just received some reassuring feedback on one of the new chapters that I leaked to a trusted colleague, so I’m starting to feel a [...]

Good news

The Cultural Research Network that runs out of a couple of offices right near mine has recently voted in five new members at early stages in their career. I was very excited to find out I’m one of them, but I’m even more so now that I know Kate and Clif have been voted in [...]

Reading group begins

The first meeting for the cultural studies reading group will be next Wednesday morning, May 24th. We decided that we wouldn’t limit it to only feminist writing because we want to read more broadly than that, but because a number of us are working on feminist projects gender will be an inevitable part of our [...]

Renovation zone

Please stand by as things change around here…

A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural

Film Screening
Tuesday 16th May 2006 – 2.00-3.30pm
CCCS Seminar Room, Lvl 4 Forgan Smith Tower,
St Lucia Campus
Presented by Associate Professor David Sholle
On January 20, 2005, Americans gathered in the nation’s capital for the second inauguration of George W. Bush as the President of the United States. A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural is [...]

Change of plans

I haven’t written much lately – firstly because there is an exciting new updated blog design on the way and I have been looking forward to coming back new and improved (no pressure, Nick!). But also I’ve been a bit reticent to say that I’ve had to pull out of going to the Crossroads in [...]

Graeme Turner named Federation Fellow

This is going to make things fun around here. Hopefully we can now crack the champagne in the work fridge! Details about the project are here.

May Day 2006

“I just want to let the mine know that Todd’s putting in for meal allowance, overtime pay and living away from home allowance, so I hope they’ve got their chequebook ready.”