Dr Melissa Gregg

Melissa Gregg completed her PhD in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies in 2004. After five years working as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, she re-joined GCS as a faculty member in 2009.

Melissa's research uses empirical methods, popular media analysis and critical theory to explain changing labour conditions in post-Fordist work cultures. Using a range of feminist cultural studies techniques - textual analysis, online and offline ethnography, visual empiricism and fieldwork - her research draws attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life. Through her two book publications, Cultural Studies' Affective Voices (2006) and The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth, 2010), Melissa is at the forefront of the growing international field of affect studies.

Melissa has an established record of publication and consultancy across academia, government and industry addressing the policy issues arising from the technological configuration of contemporary work. Her 2011 baseline profile of the National Broadband Network first release site of Willunga is the only study to have been conducted at the point of implementation for the NBN in Australia. The public report, Willunga Connects, is available for download at the DFEEST website.

Melissa's most recent book, Work's Intimacy, is an outcome of her 2007-9 ARC Discovery project, Working From Home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity. This project tracks the effects of online communication technologies on professional work practices, using an innovative combination of workplace and home-based interviews, ethnographic web research and textual analysis of print media.

A detailed list of Melissa's publications can be found on her weblog, Home Cooked Theory - one of the longest-running academic blogs in Australia.