Continuing our series of who we are:
Dr Stacy Gillis is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Associate Dean (Education) at Newcastle University. She is the co-lead of the Gender Research Group at Newcastle, and is one of the editors of Feminist Theory. Her main research projects are broadly connected by interests in the cultural politics of gender and/in popular culture, with an interest in pleasure, desire, and embodiment across the long twentieth century. Her work on feminist theory and gender studies has involved working on dismantling structures of power: in the field of critical university studies, she has worked on the emotional labour of EDI network and charter work in higher education, on doctoral supervisory practices, and on student experience and the hidden curriculum. In terms of literary studies and form, she is interested in the relationship between archaeology and literary form, including working on the cultural afterlife of Hadrian’s Wall. The tensions and pleasures of genre, form and affordances are at the heart of her work on popular culture.