Associate Professor Catharine Lumby
Director, Media and Communications Program, University of Sydney
Current ARC Projects
Large ARC Discovery Grant - Understanding Pornography in Australia - Co-investigators: Dr Alan McKee and Kath Albury - 2002-2004
Large ARC Discovery Grant - Girl Cultures: The Effect of Media on Young Women's Self-Representations - Co-investigator: Professor Elspeth Probyn - 2001-2003
Small ARC Grant - Ethical Issues in Youth Media Consumption - 2000
International Linkages
International validation panel, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Journalism and Communications, Chu Hai College, Hong Kong, 2003
Publications
Books
2000 Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider, Craftman's House, Sydney.
1999 Gotcha: Life In A Tabloid World, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
1997 Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Edited Books
2003 Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. (With Elspeth Probyn).
Chapters in Books
2004 (forthcoming) "Outside In: Getting Academic Voices Heard In Popular Debate", Australian Public Intellectuals, ed. Carter, D., University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
2003 "Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News", Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities, Praeger, Wesport, Conn. And London (With John Hartley).
2002 "Real Appeal: The Ethics of Reality TV", Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, ed. Lumby, C, and Probyn, E., Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
2002 'Televising the Invisible: Prisoners, Prison Reform and the Media', Prisoners As Citizens, ed. Brown, D. and Wilkie, M., Federation Press, Sydney.
2002 "The Future of Journalism", The Media and Communications in Australia, ed. Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
2001 "Generation Panics: Age, Knowledge and Power in a New Media Era", Culture in Australia, ed. Bennett, T. and Carter, D., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2001 "Systemic Murmurs", What Is Installation?, ed. Gezcy, A. and Genocchio, B., Power Publications.
2001 "Entertaining Sex and Politics", Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, ed. Berlant, L. and Duggan,L., New York University Press, New York.
1999 "Mediating Democracy, Politics and the Media in the Postmodern Public Sphere", New Voices for Social Democracy, ed. Patmore, G. and Glover,D. Pluto Press.
1998 Essay on feminism and the media, Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, B. general editor, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
1998 "Feminisms", Americanization and Australia, eds. Bell, P. and Bell, R., University of NSW Press.
1997 "Nothing Personal: Sex, Gender and Identity in the Media Age", Sex In Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, ed. Matthews,J., Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
1997 "Back To The Brady Bunch', The Retreat From Tolerance, ed. P. Adams, ABC Books, Sydney.
1997 "Vanishing Point", Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning, ed. Re: Public, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney, Sydney.
1995 "Tabloid Television", with John O'Neill, Not Just Another Business: Journalists, Citizens and the Media, Pluto Press, Melbourne.
Refereed Articles
2001 "Watching them Watching Us: The Trouble With Teenage Girls", Continuum, Volume 15, No. 1, April, pp. 49-55.
2000 "Sex, Murder, and Moral Panic: Coming to a Suburb Near You", Meanjin, Volume 58, no. 4, pp. 92-106.
1999 "Genre Anxiety: Media Studies and Popular Debate", Media Information Australia, No. 88, February, pp. 40-47.
1998 'No Kidding: Paedophilia and Popular Culture", Continuum, Volume 12, No.1, April, pp. 47-55.
1997 "Girls and the New Media", Meanjin, Volume 56, No. 1, pp. 105-118.
1997 'Panic Attacks: Old Fears in a New Media Order", Media International Australia, No. 85, November, pp. 40-46.