Subject expertise
Cultural and media theory
Cultural studies and cultural politics
Continental philosophy
Derrida and deconstruction
Digital media and new technologies
For further information see Gary Hall's profile
Main teaching duties
Research in Communication, Culture and Media I & II, MA Communication, Culture and Media
PhD supervision
Providing strategic leadership for the development of research in Media and Communication; developing and supporting a team of research staff and research fellows focused on delivering international outputs; developing collaborative activities with staff in other disciplines and universities.
1989/1994: University of Sussex. D. Phil
1988/89: University of Sussex. MA English Literature (Critical Theory)
1984/87: University of Lancaster. BA(Hons) Independent Studies Degree in Modern Literature
2000/2007: Senior Lecturer/Reader in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
1995/2000: Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Teesside
Editorships
Series Editor of the Culture Machine book series from Berg (Oxford and New York). Recently published titles include:
Paul Virilio's City of Panic (2005)
Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Celebrity Gossip (2006)
Charlie Gere, Art, Time & Technology: A History of the Disappearing Body (2006)
Founding Editor (with Dave Boothroyd) of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net/ (launched Feb. 1999)
Director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH (Cultural Studies e-Archive) http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch (launched March, 2006)
Co-founder of Open Humanities Press (OHP), the first open access publishing house dedicated to contemporary critical and cultural theory (established in 2006)
Contributing Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Studies
More information is available on my website
www.garyhall.info/
Authored Books
(2008, Spring) Digitize This Book!: The Politics and Ethics of New Media and Open Access (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis and London)
(2002) Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory (Continuum: London and New York)
Edited Books
(2007) Experimenting: Essays With Samuel Weber (Fordham University Press: New York) - edited with Simon Morgan Wortham
(2006) New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh) - edited with Clare Birchall
Selected Refereed Articles in Academic Journals:
(2007), ‘Coca-colonized Thinking?', The Oxford Literary Review, 28
(2007), 'The Politics of Secrecy: Cultural Studies and Derrida in the Age of Empire', Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No 1, January
(2004), 'Why You Can't Do Cultural Studies and Be a Derridean: Cultural Studies After Birmingham, the New Social Movements and the New Left', Culture Machine 6 http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j006/Articles/hall.htm
(2004) 'Digitise This', The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Vol.26, No.1, January-March
(2003) 'Talking Prosthetic Heads: Listening to Stelarc', Live Art Letters (with Joanna Zylinska)
(2003) 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture Machine 5 http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j005/Articles/hall.htm
(1999) 'www.culturalstudies.ac.uk’, The Oxford Literary Review, 21
Selected Chapters in Books:
(2007) 'IT, Again: or, How to Build an Ethical Virtual Institution', in Experimenting: Essays With Samuel Weber
(2006), 'New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Some Comments, Clarifications, Explanations, Observations, Recommendations, Remarks, Statements and Suggestions)' (with Clare Birchall), in New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory
(2002) ‘Para-site', in The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Continuum: London and New York)