Catherine Driscoll

Catherine Driscoll is an Australian professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She grew up in Wauchope, New South Wales and was educated at Wauchope High School, the University of Newcastle (Australia), and the University of Melbourne. She has worked at the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, and joined the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney in 2003. She has held visiting fellow positions at Duke University and Columbia University.^{[1] [2]}

As well as teaching and researching in cultural theory, cultural studies, and youth studies, Driscoll has an active research interest in popular culture, girl studies, modernist studies, and rural studies and ethnography.

Selected publications

• Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
• Modernist Cultural Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010.
• Teen Film: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Berg, 2011.

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