Jodie Taylor
Scholar and Educator in Brisbane City, Australia
about. SCHOLAR | Dr Jodie Taylor is the author of Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity & Queer World-making (Peter Lang 2012), which won the 2013 Australia & New Zealand Publication Prize from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She is co-author of Redefining Mainstream Popular Music (Routledge 2013), The Festivalisation of Culture (Ashgate 2014) & numerous scholarly articles & chapters on gender, sexuality & popular music, queer scenes & subcultures, youth culture & ageing, ethnography & ethical relations in fieldwork. Jodie is on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies & the Scientific Committee of Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales.
about. EDUCATOR | Currently, Jodie is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at SAE Qantm Creative Media Institute and has been educating students in the creative and performing arts and humanities at Bachelor, Masters & PhD level since 2006. She has a keen interest in the postgraduate learning experience and is currently working on Masters course development. Through the lens of critical pedagogy, Jodie’s praxis-orientated approach to education is guided by the desire to help students become aesthetically inspired, media literate,culturally sensitive, critical and creative thinkers.
Previous appointments include: Research Fellow & Lecturer in Music Literature at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University and Post-doctoral Fellow at Griffith Centre for Cultural Research.
about. NOISE-MAKER | Jodie is equal parts electro, metal, musical theatre & torch singer. Currently, she performs with Brisbane industrial band Dogmachine