Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Dr. Kim Toffoletti

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 43986
Campus Burwood
Location Room D5.06
Role and profile Kim Toffoletti teaches in the Sociology and Gender Studies program.
Teaching responsibilities Bachelor of Arts.
Research interests Representations of gender in media, sport, and popular culture
Women fans of Australian Rules football
Gender, technology and the body
Posthuman studies
The writings of Jean Baudrillard.
Current research projects A study of Australian female football fans, focusing on the practices of women supporters in the maintenance and disruption of gendered identities in sport (with Dr P.Mewett). An edited collection titled 'Sport and its Female Fans' is forthcoming in 2012 (Routledge).

HDR supervision
Gender Differences in the Experiential Realities of Bisexuality’: Janet Watson

‘Cross-Gendered Selves: An Exploratory Study of Childhood Gender Dysphoria’: Kelly Elizabeth

‘Sexual Abuse Representation in Fiction: Hidden Desire, Culture and Redemption’: Neena Sachdev.
Qualifications GCHE Deakin (2007)
PhD Monash (2003)
BA (Hons)/BSc Monash (1998)
Memberships Committee memberships at Deakin
2010 Faculty Equity and Diversity Advisory Group, Deakin University
2006 Access, Equity and Equal Opportunity Subcommittee, Deakin University
2005 Teaching and Learning Committee, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University

Professional associations
Australian Women and Gender Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Publications

The following publications are prior to my employment at Deakin - for other publications see the Research link.

Toffoletti, K (2003) ‘Imagining the Posthuman: Patricia Piccinini and the Art of Simulation’. Outskirts 11 (online)

Toffoletti, K (2003) ‘Media Implosion: Posthuman Bodies at the Interface’. Hecate 29(1), pp.151-165.

Toffoletti, K (2002) ‘Bodies in Stereo: Advertising at the Interface’. Metro 135, pp.172-5.

Toffoletti, K (1999) ‘Postmodern Techno Princess Denies Origins: The Marketing and Deconstruction of Difference in Bjork’s Homogenic’. Antithesis 10, pp.8-27.




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