Dr Jenny Alexander
- Senior Lecturer in Politics, Media and Communication
- Weymouth House W404, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics, Media and Communication in the School of Humanities and Law (Politics Group) having been originally appointed to the Marketing and Communication Group with a specialism in environmental communication after working in industry.
I am also the Programme Leader for the BA Politics and BA Politics at Economics.
My primary research, teaching and publishing interests are in environmental politics and environmental communication, and in gender, sexuality and the politics of representation.
My PhD (University of Sussex) was on nineteenth century anarchist autobiographies. I have published on gender, sexuality, race, disability and representation in film, television and advertising, and on environmental politics and communication.
I am currently writing a book for Routledge on Environmental Advertising: New Forms of Transnational Persuasion, about the global politics of promotional communication on the subject of the environment.
Another book is at the planning stage; on the ethics of contemporary homoerotic subtext, titled Queercoding or Queerbaiting: The Homoerotic Subtext of Supernatural (A Study in Reading Subtext on Screen)...
I previously taught at both Sussex and Middlesex universities, and also worked for the Advertising Standards Authority, as their environmental claims specialist, between 2007-2010.
I have previously supervised PhDs to completion on Harry Potter fanfiction in a Chinese context, and British working-class girls' imagined futures and media representation.
At present I am supervising five PhD students on: the selective tradition, advertising and the cultural history of gin; conspiracy theories and the Covid-19 pandemic; sandbox videogames and emotional containment during Covid-19; The Repair Shop and the psychodynamics of tactility and emotion in consolatory television; and, an eco-feminist approach to climate fiction and climate fiction authors' voices.
I welcome PhD applications on any of my above profile interests.
moreResearch
Jenny's research interests are in environmental politics/ environmental communication and gender, sexuality, politics and communication. She has published on fan cultures, "eco-celebrity", anarchism and sexuality, and eco-fascism, and welcomes PhD enquiries on any aspect of gender/sexuality and media, and environmental politics and communication.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Sustainable cities and communities
"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"
Peace, justice and strong institutions
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"
