Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

Lecturer in Media and Performance

Office Times

Monday 10.00am-1.00pm

Tuesday 10.00am-1.00pm

These hours may change due to teaching commitments.

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Biography

Kirsty has over 15 years teaching experience in the higher and further education sectors and joined the University in 2005 as Lecturer in Media and Performance.

As well as publishing in the fields of celebrity, stardom and contemporary popular television, Kirsty works with creative educational organisations including Cornerhouse, Manchester to develop and inform their curriculum and regularly delivers courses and events on film and media theory to students and the general public.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching:

Level 4: Critical and Textual Studies, Classical Hollywood Cinema

Level 5: Comedy Performance and Media, Contemporary American Cinema

Level 6: Dissertation, Research Methods, Lifestyle Television, Practical Research Project

Postgraduate work:

PhD supervision

Supervision of final projects on MA Documentary and MA Fiction Film

Research Interests

Kirsty’s research output lies in celebrity culture, feminism and post-feminism, social media, reality and lifestyle television. She is also interested in post-classical Hollywood, American independent cinema and contemporary British comedy.

Qualifications and Memberships

 PhD “Nothing Less Than Perfect: Celebrity, Postfeminism and the

Makeover in Popular Culture”. University of Salford

MA Screen Studies University of Manchester

BA (Hons) Media and Performance (First class) University of Salford

Full Member of Research Centre: Communication, Cultural & Media Studies

Publications

Recent publications:

Books:

Fairclough, K & Halligan, B & Edgar, R 2013, 'The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop', Routledge, New York, United States.

Book chapters:

Fairclough, K 2013 'Growing old in the spotlight: Social Media and Ageing ', in: Martin, W & Twigg, J (eds.),Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ageing , Routledge, London, UK.

Fairclough, K 2013 'Nothing less than perfect: female celebrity, ageing and hyper-scrutiny in the gossip industry', in: Female Celebrity and Ageing Back in the Spotlight, Routledge, London, UK

Journal Articles:

Fairclough, K 2012, 'Nothing Less Than Perfect - Ageing, Female Celebrity and Hyper-scrutiny in the Gossip Industry', Celebrity Studies Special Issue, 'Back in the spotlight: Ageing and Female Celebrity".