Inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal Conference

Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural and media studies in Australia and internationally. His research has covered a wide range of forms and media - literature, film, television, radio, new media, journalism, and popular culture. He has published 22 books with national and international academic presses, with the most recent being Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn (Sage, 2010) and What's Become of Cultural Studies? (forthcoming, Sage). A past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and convenor of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (2006-2010), Graeme Turner has had considerable engagement with federal research and higher education policy. He is only the second humanities scholar to serve on the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. His ARC Federation Fellow project is an international comparative study of the role television plays in the post-broadcast, digital environment.

Professor Christine Geraghty
University of Glasgow - Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow

Christine Geraghty is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of Film and Television at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published extensively on film and television with a particular interest in fiction and form in British cinema and television. She published two articles on stardom in the early 2000s, addressing questions of gender and performance in particular, and has pursued those interests in her more recent work on adaptations, including Now a Major Motion Picture Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). Her BFI TV Classic on Bleak House (2005) is published in October 2012. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and sits on the advisory boards of a number of journals, including Screen.

I research in the areas of stardom and celebrity; genre studies, and science fiction cinema in particular; film authorship; film sound; film and affect; Asian Cinema; and whiteness studies. I edit the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed for the best new academic journal 2011.