Dr Jason Lee
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Job title: Head of Film & Media Studies with Creative Writing & Professional Writing
Email: j.lee@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 592154
Room: Kedleston Road E705
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Latest news
- Co-ordinating Determining Creative Practice research symposium, with the University of Bedfordshire and MeCCSA.
- Working on the Practice Section of the MeCCSA conference at the LSE, 2010.
- Invited presentation, King's College, London, 2010.
- Invited presentation of creative work, University of Bedfordshire, circularity, aesthetics, and translation, 2009.
- American University of Rome, Easter, 2009, paper on racism, youth culture and the media.
- Recent creative work published in the world's oldest journal The London Magazine, plus European Judaism (Vol. 40 No. 2.), Disability Studies Quarterly (Vol. 28 No. 2.), and Shadowtrain (July/August 2008).
- Critical work published in Open Court's 'Popular Culture and Philosophy' series, on Radiohead and evil.
- Chair of the Practice Section of MeCCSA.
Recent publications
Celebrity, Pedophilia and Ideology in American Culture (New York: Cambria, 2009): covering 12 years of work - chapters on 9/11 and science fiction, as well as Michael Jackson, films on child abuse. See Cambria's website for details.
Books include: Cultural Ontology (1999); Madness and the Savage (1999)
Other recent books:
- Pervasive Perversions (London: Free Association Books, 2005).
- Lost Passports (Leicester: Troubador, 2005).
Work in Johns Hopkins Philosophy and Literature and Stanford's Mantis, over a hundred books, articles and chapters, work translated in five languages.
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: Creative Writing
Managing 18 staff, plus teaching and research.
Teaching responsibilities
- Level 5 Scriptwriting
- Level 7 MA Humanities by Research
- Independent Studies
Professional interests
Scriptwriting, media and film consultancy.
Research interests
Transdisciplinarity (social sciences, sciences, humanities, and creative arts), especially creative media, transgression, cultural theory.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association - Chair of the Practice Section
- The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
- The European Society for the Study of English
- National Association of Writers in Education
- The Association of the Study of Modern Italy
- Association for Creative Writing and English
- Society for Disability Studies
Recent Conferences
- Crtical/Creative paper given at Lancaster University's 9th International Gothic Conference, Summer 2009.
- Paper on immigration and the media, American University of Rome, Easter 2009.
- Italy's Anathematisation of the Other: immigration, ethnicity and race in contemporary Italian media. The Association of Modern Italy, Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh, Stirling Media Research Institute, The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges, November 2008.
- Till Deaf Do Us Part - addiction to the 'talking cure' in popular culture. Kingston University, Addiction and Obsession, July 2008.
- No More Angel Delight - ideology, ontology and ethics in the exorcism film. Manchester Metropolitan University/The University of Salford, New Nightmares: Issues and Themes in Contemporary Horror Cinema and Horror Film Criticism, April 2008.
Additional Interests and Activities
- Currently working on: a book on culture and addiction, with Cambria; a book on screenwriting with Continuum.
- Conducting a 'transition project', as part of the 'Flying Start' funded project, developing a book for students entering university on editing creative work.
- Editorial Board of the international science/humanities journal Culture Frame.
- Co-editor Assent (formerly Poetry Nottingham, established 1941).
- Writer for Vertigo and Film International.
- American, British, European and Australian culture since the 1960s.
Media experience
- Creative work and teaching exercises broadcast by the BBC.
- Radio work on the impact of screen media, particularly television, on young people.
- Italian television work on racism and immigration.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) , University of Warwick
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA , University of Warwick
Research qualifications
- DPhil , University of Sussex
