Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University
22 November
Kirsty Fairclough
School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor of Screen Studies/Deputy Head
Speaker Biography
Professor Kirsty Fairclough is Deputy Head and Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kirsty’s current research areas include popular digital culture, celebrity studies and popular music. Kirsty has published widely on popular culture and is the co-editor of Diva: Hip-Hop, Feminism and Fierceness, Prince and Popular Culture, The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment and Music/Video: Forms, Aesthetics, Media.
Kirsty’s work has been published widely and she is a regular commentator on popular culture featuring on BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Manchester, and in The Guardian and Creative Review amongst others. Kirsty works closely with a number of cultural organisations in the UK including the V&A and HOME.