ECREA
SECTION GENDER AND COMMUNICATION

 

Section Gender and Communication

Who's who?

+ Chair: Claudia Alvares



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Claudia Alvares obtained a PhD in Communication and Cultural Studies from Goldsmith's College, University of London, in June 2001, under the British Council Chevening Scholarship and the Portuguese Government/European Union Praxis XXI joint Scholarship. She is currently Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, at the Communication, Arts and Information Technologies Department of Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal. She has published her doctoral thesis in book format, titled Humanism after Colonialism (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2006), as well as various articles in Portuguese and British journals. She is also coordinating a research project funded by the European Union, which consists in a content analysis of the discursive representation of the feminine in the Portuguese Press. Amongst her main interests are postcolonial criticism, cultural studies, gender and media studies, as well as psychoanalysis.

 

+ Vice- Chair: Tonny Krijnen

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Tonny Krijnen studied Communication Science and specialized in media and audience studies. Her master-thesis concerned gendered pleasures when watching the television serial Ally McBeal. After her master's degree, she worked on her dissertation called There Is More(s) in Television. Studying the relationship between television and moral imagination. At the moment, Tonny works as an assistant professor Media Studies at the Faculty of History and Arts of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.




+ Vice Chair: Sofie Van Bauwel

 

 

 

 

 

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Sofie Van Bauwel (PhD) studied Communication Studies at the Ghent University and Women Studies at the Antwerp University. She is a lecturer at the Department of Communication Studies at the Ghent University, where she is a member of the Working Group Film and Television Studies. Her research focuses on cultural media studies, film and television studies and gender and media. Her PhD. dealt with gender bending as discursive performative articulation of resistance in contemporary popular visual culture. She has published on film, feminist theory, and gender and popular culture.





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