Professor Jason Lee
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Job title: Head of Film and Media with Creative Writing and Professional Writing
Email: j.lee@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: beyondtransgression.wordpress.com/
Phone No: 01332 592154
Room: Kedleston Road E712
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Latest news
- Contributed to a Wellcome Trust funded project on sexualisation and young people.
- Working with the HEA as a consultant on learning and teaching, transgression and ethics.
- Gained a British Council grant with Roman Books to develop sustainable publishing project.
- Established John Manners Bursary to support MA students.
- Recently gained an internal research grant to develop TIRN- Transgression International Research Network.
- Working on an edited collection on extremism, transgression and nationalism with Andrew Wilson.
- Other creative work recently published in the world's oldest journal The London Magazine, plus European Judaism (Vol. 40 No. 2.), and Disability Studies Quarterly (Vol. 28 No. 2.).
Recent publications
Celebrity, Paedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture. New York: Cambria, 2009, pp. xi-445.
This is an extensive book, covering twelve years of work, including new essays.
You Have Not Been Paying Attention - teleology and ontology in 'Hail to the Thief'. Radiohead and Philosophy, ed. Brandon Forbes and George Reisch. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2009.
Dr Cipriano's Cell. Chelmsford: CM Press/Arts Council, 2011, pp. 3-282.
Single authored novel, published in 2010 as an e-book, published as a paperback 2011.
Unholy Days. New York: Roman Books, 2012, pp. 7-245.
Single authored novel published as a hardback in March 2012, available widely (Amazon, Guardian Books, etc)
Cultures of Addiction. New York: Cambria, 2012, pp. v-314.
This is an interdisciplinary edited collection published in April 2012.
The Zoo Keeper's Strife: Will Self's psychiatric fictions. Philosophy and Literature, Volume 36 Number 1, April 2012, pp. 196-208. Now published in this Johns Hopkins University Press journal.
Other recent work includes the poetry collection See Galileo. Canterbury: Gylphi, 2010.
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: Creative Writing
Professor and Head of Film and Media with Professional and Creative Writing. As well as teaching and research, I manage a group of academics across thirteen degrees, having overall responsibility for related areas of student retention, progression, results and experience and lead in business development.
Teaching responsibilities
- Level 5 Creative Practice: Processes
- Level 5 Writing for Screen
- Level 6 The Written World
- Level 6 Independent Study in Creative Writing
- Level 6 Independent Study in Film and Television Studies
- Level 7 MA Humanities - Transgression Theory and Practice
- PhD Supervision (currently supervising 3 PhDs)
Professional interests
Scriptwriting, media and film consultancy, publishing. Director of Elstree Communications Ltd.
Research interests
- My current work includes a book with Bloomsbury I have just completed on mediated fate and work with the HEA on ethics and research.
- Since the early 1990s my critical and creative work has been concerned with 'otherness' in all its forms, ranging from work on indigenous peoples and film and culture, to 'madness' to child sexual abuse and addiction, engaging with a range of areas including performance studies, film studies, cultural studies and critical and cultural theory. My current work is focused on sexuality.
- Early publications include the double volume single authored monographs The Metaphysics of Mass Art. Also called Cultural Ontology Vol. I and II.
- In 2005 Free Association Books, London, published Pervasive Perversions - paedophilia and child sexual abuse in media culture, described by Professor James Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair and Professor of English, University of Southern California, as the most important work to appear on the subject.
- In 2010 Cambria published the edited collection Cultures of Addiction having previously published Celebrity, Pedophilia and Ideology in American Culture.
- My research transgresses traditional discipline boundaries and includes the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts.
- Welcome PhD applications from those that seek to transgress boundaries from critical and creative perspectives and researchers who seek to examine transgressive culture.
- Founder of the journal and book series Transgressive Culture and Transgression International Research Network and Beyond Transgression.
- Twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture.
- Creative practices, including novel writing, screen and stage writing, and poetry.
- Transgression in all its forms, including theory and philosophy, literature, art, music, and film.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College
- Associate Member of the HEA
- Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association - Chair of the Practice Section 2009-11 and Executive Member
- 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
- Violence and Difference in Global Performances of Death and the Maiden. Salford University, Drama Translation in the Age of Globalisation Conference, March 2013.
- The Projectionist. University of Limerick, David Bowie Conference, October 2012.
- Inside Voice: Shamanism, Ventriloquism and Radars in Search of Transcendent Originality. Imperial College, Great Writing Conference, June 2012.
- Without Wings: Myth of Darwin, Transhumanism and Sexual Transgression. Brunel University, Sexual Cultures Conference, April 2012.
- Beyond Darwin. Dublin City University, Exeter University, New York University, Transforming the Human Conference, October 2011.
- Facing the Other - Levinas versus Deleuze, Great Writing Imperial College London, July 2011.
The Media and Censorship, Conference Co-organiser MeCCSA Practice Section and Edge Hill University, April 2011.
- Darwin's Fall at Castel Sant Angelo, University College Dublin Transgression and the Sacred Conference, April 2011.
- Will Self and Comedy, University of Nottingham Madness and Literature Conference, August 2010.
- Plenary presentation, University of Surrey Posthumann Conference, July 2010.
- Milton, Galileo, and Censorship, University of Rennes II Censorship in the English Speaking World 16th-21st Century, 2010.
- Plenary presentation on the future of the cultural industries, LSE MeCCSA Conference, January 2010.
- Crtical/Creative paper given at Lancaster University's 9th International Gothic Conference, Summer 2009.
- Immigration and the media, American University of Rome, Easter 2009.
Additional Interests and Activities
- Currently working on The Psychology of Screenwriting with Bloomsbury, New York, due for publication 2013.
- External examiner for City University.
- External examinder for the University of Chester.
- Writer for Vertigo and Film International.
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
