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Dr Megan Le Masurier

Megan Le Masurier

PhD (Media and Communications) University of Sydney
BA (Hons) University of Sydney
A.S.C.M. (Associate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music)

Phone: +61 2 9351 3628

Address: Room 214, Reception, Level 2, Footbridge Theatre Terrace
Access adjacent to Footbridge Theatre and Footbridge over Parramatta Road
A09a - Footbridge Theatre

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Consultation Times
Thursday 9.45 - 11.45am

Megan Le Masurier began working for the Department of Media and Communications in 2005 and teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. She studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium, graduated with Honours in History from the University of Sydney and is now working on the book version of her PhD, ‘Fair Go! Cleo magazine as popular feminism’. Her professional life began briefly in the academy, fell happily into the magazine industry (writing and editing), and the CV is now beginning to read like there was a strategic rationale behind it all (there wasn’t!). She is currently researching small-circulation independent print magazines in a digital age, and developing a book on the genres of journalism with Fiona Giles.

Research Interests

  • Magazine studies: history, theory, practice
  • Popular feminism
  • Feature journalism
  • The genres of journalism
  • The role of the editor: past, present, future?
  • Gender, sexuality and media
  • Independent magazines and print culture

Publications

  • [Journal article] ‘Independent magazines and the rejuvenation of print’, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Cultural Studies (forthcoming)
  • [Book chapter] ‘Exhuming Germaine’ in Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (eds), Feminist Objects, Feminist Memories [forthcoming]
  • [Journal article] ‘Reading the flesh: popular feminism, the second wave and Cleo’s male centrefold’, Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2011
  • [Journal article] ‘Get Out In Front! An evaluation of a media workshop for young elite sportswomen’, co-authored with Dr Clifton Evers, Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work, Volume 9, 2011, www.thealtitudejournal.com
  • [Journal Article] ‘Nine ways to reduce plagiarism: Findings from The Plagiarism Project’. Synergy, July 2010
  • [Journal article] ‘Telling tales in the negligent office’, Angelaki, Vol. 14, No. 1, May 2009
  • [Journal article] ‘Desiring the (popular feminist) reader: Letters to Cleo magazine during the Second Wave’, MIA (Media International Australia), Issue No. 131, May 2009
  • [Journal article] ‘My Other, My Self. Cleo Magazine and Feminism in 1970s Australia’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 22, No. 53, July 2007
  • [Journal article] ‘Teaching our way through plagiarism in the academy’, Synergy, Issue 24, November 2006
  • [Research report] ‘Sportswomen: Get Out in front!’ for the NSW Institute of Sport [NSWIS] and the Office of the Status of Women, co-authored with Dr Clifton Evers, 2006
  • [Issue Paper] ‘Gender and Health’ for NSW Department of Health Futures Planning Project, co-authored with Prof. Catharine Lumby, 2005
  • [Research report] Playing By The Rules: On and Off the Field for the National Rugby League (NRL), co-authored with Catharine Lumby, Kath Albury, Clifton Evers, Michael Moller and Wendy McCarthy, 2004
  • [Review] ‘Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar years’ by Susan Sheridan et al., Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 17. No. 38, July, 2002
  • [Journal article] ‘From Surf City to the Entertainment Centre’, NMA 3, 1984
  • [conference paper] 'Paper Politics? The pleasures of the 'indie' magazine', Mapping the Magazine 3, Cardiff, Wales, July 2011
  • [conference paper] ‘Journalism does not exist (without a genre)’, joint paper with Dr Fiona Giles, JEAA Conference, UTS Sydney, November 2010
  • [Conference paper] ‘Independent magazines and print creativity in a digital age’. ANZCA conference, ‘Media, Democracy and Change’, Canberra, July, 2010
  • [Conference paper] ‘Listening to popular feminism’. Listening Futures Symposium, Macquarie University, December, 2009
  • [Conference paper] ‘Reading (feminist) desire: reader letters to Cleo magazine during the second wave’. Media Histories Colloquium, Mitchell Library, September, 2008
  • [Conference paper] ‘The Popular Orgasm’. ‘Living in the Seventies’ conference, Macquarie University, October, 2007
  • [Conference paper] ‘Reading the flesh: the Cleo centrefold and the erotic gaze of popular feminism’. ‘Magazines and Modernity’ conference, University of Queensland, December, 2006
  • [Journalism] For various publications since 1985, including Vogue, ELLE, Countdown, Follow Me, FMG, Hero, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

Current Supervising Postgraduates

Kerrie Davies Blame the (single) mother.
Dominic O'Grady The View from Oxford Street: Journalism from the Sydney Star Observer
Toby Creswell Darlinghurst Nights: The party that never ended