Jodie Taylor
Scholar, Lecturer, and Curriculum Designer 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 the Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Australian Performing Arts Conservatory, where she is developing the Master of Creative Business Management program. Through the lens of critical pedagogy, Jodie’s praxis-oriented approach to education is guided by a desire to help students become aesthetically inspired, media-literate, culturally sensitive, critical and creative thinkers.
Previous appointments include: Senior Lecturer and Chair of Scholarship and Research at SAE University College. Research Fellow and Lecturer in Music Literature at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University and Post-doctoral Fellow at Griffith Centre for Cultural Research.