Diane Negra
Professor
Diane Negra
Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, she has held guest professorship appointments at Brown University, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Reims, Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and Tel Aviv University. She is the author, editor or co-editor of thirteen books including What a Girl Wants?: The Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008), The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (2006) and Extreme Weather and Global Media (with Julia Leyda, 2015). Her work in media, gender and cultural studies has been widely influential and recognized with a range of research awards and fellowships, including an award from the Government of Japan that led to a lecture tour in that country. For five years she served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Television and New Media.
In 2022 Professor Negra was elected to a three-year term as Co-Chair of the Interacademy Partnership. She is Chair of the Royal Irish Academy’s Working Group on Culture and Heritage and has served on the Interacademy Partnership Working Group on Predatory Journals and Conferences. In 2016 she was appointed by the US Ambassador to Ireland to the Irish Fulbright Commission Board. In 2019 she was elected Chair of the Commission.
Professor Negra’s work is increasingly animated by a sense of concern about the ways that neoliberal technologization is diminishing our common humanity. She is in the early stages of a book on bureaucracy, civility, and rage in the service economy whose working title is “In Order to Serve You Better:" Affect, Authority and Antagonism in The New Cultures of Customer Service. Her other current project is Interregnum: Hollywood Film Between the Financial Crisis and Covid-19.
A dual citizen academic trained at the University of Texas at Austin, Professor Negra has been based in the UK and Ireland since 2002.
Diane.Negra@ucd.ie
+353 1 716 1501
BOOKS
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2023, “Gender, Family and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi,” (with Julia Leyda) In Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity Eds. James Lyons & Yannis Tzioumakis Routledge ISBN #9780367677282 282-298.
2022, “’Pack Your Patience:’ US Air Travel Discourse in Summer, 2022.” European Journal of Cultural Studies
2022, “Of Wife Guys and Family Defenders: Towards a Typology of 21st Century Celebrity Husbands,” (with Anthony McIntyre) Journal of Gender Studies 32(3).
2022, “Labor, Self-Care and Respite: Neoliberal Rationalities in Sleep Crisis Rhetoric,” (with Suzanne Leonard) New Formations
2022, “Perceptions on the Prevalence and Impact of Predatory Journals and Conferences: A Global Survey of Researchers.” (with Ana Maria Cetto, Asfawossen Asrat, Tracey Elliott, Stefan Eriksson, Bisma Fazeen and Lai Meng Looi) Learned Publishing.
2021, “Mediated Immobility and Fraught Domesticity: Zoom Fails and Interruption Videos in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” (with Anthony McIntyre & Eleanor O’Leary) Feminist Media Studies
2021, “Reconsidering Television True Crime and Gendered Authority in Allen v. Farrow” (with Tanya Horeck) Feminist Media Studies 22(6)
2021, “Climate and Culture in The Pioneer Woman,” Screen 62(1) (Spring) 92-99.
2021, “Status Economies and Frequent Flier Expertise: YouTube First Class Travel Videos,” (with Allison Page) Cultural Studies 36(4)
2021, “Sizing up the ‘Dadbod:” Fitness, Age and Resistance in a Male Body Type,” (with Anthony McIntyre & Odin O’Sullivan) European Journal of Cultural Studies 25(2)
2021, “Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman,” (with Julia Leyda), European Journal of Cultural Studies 24(1) (February) 350-357
2020, “Ireland Inc.,” (with Anthony McIntyre) In International Handbook of Irish StudiesEds. Michael Cronin, Renee Fox and Brian O’Conchubhair. Routledge. ISBN #9780367259136
2020, “The New Plutocratic (Post)Feminism,” (with Hannah Hamad) In The New Feminist Literary Studies. Ed. Jennifer Cooke, Cambridge U P, 83-96. ISBN #9781108599504
2020, “Age Disproportion in the Post-Epitaph Chick Flick: Reading The Proposal.” In Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema Eds. Niall Richardson & Joel Gwynne. Palgrave. ISBN #9783030400637
2020, “Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)Feminism,” In Trump’s America: Political Culture and National Identity. Ed. Liam Kennedy Edinburgh U P. ISBN #9781474458870 pps. 268-288.
2019, Culinary Entertainment, Creative Labor and the Re-Territorialization of White Masculinity,” (with Yvonne Tasker) Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59(1) (Fall) pps. 112-133.
2019, “Ireland Inc.: The Corporatization of Affective Life in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland,” (with Anthony McIntyre) International Journal of Cultural Studies 23(1) 60-80.
2019, “Teresa Mannion and the Emergence of Extreme Weather Culture in Ireland,” Irish University Review 49(1) (May) Special Issue on Food, Energy and Climate: Ireland in the World-Ecology, Eds. Sharae Deckard & Lucy Collins, pps. 135-150.
2019, “Broadcasting Irish Emigration in an Era of Global Mobility,” (with Anthony McIntyre & Eleanor O’Leary) European Journal of Cultural Studies. 27(5-6) (October-December 2019) pps. 849-866.
2018, “Irish Youth Unemployment and Emigration 2009-2014,” (with Eleanor O’Leary) In The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment. Eds. Tamar Mayer, Sujata Moorti & Jamie McCallum, Routledge ISBN #9781351247658 pps. 123-139.
2018, “Stardom and Celebrity.” (with Suzanne Leonard) In The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice Eds. Mary Celeste Kearney & Michael Kackman, Routledge. ISBN #9780451716307
2018, “Intergenerational Feminism and Media: A Roundtable.” (with Rosalind Gill, Hannah Hamad, Mariam Kauser and Nayomi Roshini) In An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities. Eds. Jessalyn Keller, Jo Littler and Alison Winch. London: Routledge, 2018.
2018, “Animality, Domesticity and Masculinity in My Cat From Hell,” Critical Studies in Television March 13(1).
2017, “Forms and Functions of Irish Celebrity Autobiography,” (with Anthony McIntyre) In A History of Irish Autobiography. Ed. Liam Harte. Cambridge U P. ISBN #9781107131446 363-378.
2017, “’I Hate to be the Feminist Here But’. . .Reading the Post-Epitaph Chick Flick,” (with Shelley Cobb) Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 31 Issue 6 (November) 757-766.
2017, “Celebrity.” (with Suzanne Leonard). In Keywords For Media Studies Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU P. ISBN #9781479859610
2016, “Female-Centered TV in an Age of Precarity.” (with Julia Leyda and Jorie Lagerwey) Genders 1(1) (Spring).
2016, “Emigration, Return Migration and Surprise Homecomings in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland,” (with Eleanor O’Leary) Irish Studies Review Vol. 24 Issue 2 (May) pps. 127-141.
2015, “The Ambivalent Irishness of Denis Leary and Kathy Griffin,” In A Companion to Celebrity. Eds. P. David Marshall & Sean Redmond, Wiley Blackwell, ISBN #9781118475010 pps. 407-420
2015, “After Ever After: Bethenny Frankel, Self-Branding and the ‘New Intimacy of Work,’” (With Suzanne Leonard) In Cupcakes, Pinterest, Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century. Ed. Elana Levine, U of Illinois P. ISBN #9780252039577 pps. 196-214.
2015, “The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of ‘Robsten.’” In First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics. Eds. Shelley Cobb & Neil Ewen. Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN #9781628921229 pps. 313-330.
2014, “Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland,” Gender, Sexuality & Feminism 1(2) (December 2014)
2014, “Neoliberalism, Magical Thinking and Silver Linings Playbook.” (with Alan Nadel) Narrative 22(3) October, pps. 312-332.
2014, “Claiming Feminism: Commentary, Autobiography and Advice Literature for Women in the Recession,” Journal of Gender Studies 23(3) (September) pps. 275-286.
2014, “Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland,” in Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger’s Tales. Eds. Conn Holohan & Tony Tracy, London, Palgrave, ISBN #9781137300232, pps. 223-237.
2014, “Keeping Up With the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values, Second Generation Celebrity and the Kardashian Family Brand,” (with Maria Pramaggiore) in Reality Gendervision: Decoding Gender in Transatlantic Reality TV. Ed. Brenda Weber,
Durham: Duke U P, ISBN #9780822356820 pps. 76-96.
2013, “Gender Bifurcation in the Recession Economy: Extreme Couponing and Gold Rush Alaska.” Cinema Journal 53 (1) (Fall) In Focus, pps. 124-131.
2013, “Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland,” Irish Review 46
2013, “Quality Postfeminism?: Sex and the Single Girl on HBO.” In Film and Gender. Eds. Sue Thornham & Niall Richardson. London: Routledge ISBN #9780415672931 (reprint).
2013, “Neoliberal Frames and Genres of Inequality: Recession-Era Chick Flicks and Male-Centered Corporate Melodrama,” (with Yvonne Tasker) European Journal of Cultural Studies16(3) (June) pps. 344-361.
2011, “Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology,” reprint in The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film Vol. I, Eds. Roy Grundmann, Cynthia Lucia & Art Simon, Methuen, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN #9781405179843 pps. 371-396.
2010, “Urban Space, Luxury Retailing and the New Irishness,” Cultural Studies 24(6) (November) pps. 836-851.
2010, “Michael Moore.” In Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Ed. Yvonne Tasker. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge, ISBN #9780415554336 pps. 296-302.
2009, “Irishness, Anger and Masculinity in Recent Film and Television,” in Screening Irish-America: A Reader ed. Ruth Barton, Irish Academic P. ISBN #9780716529927 pps. 279-298.
2009, “Time Crisis and the Postfeminist Heterosexual Economy,” in Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness ed. Sean Griffin, SUNY P. ISBN #978143842618
2008, “Structural Integrity, Historical Reversion and the Post-9/11 Chick Flick,” Feminist Media Studies 8(1) (March).
2007, “Eroticism and the Postfeminist Melancholic,” In The Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality. Eds. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson & Nick Rumens, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. ISBN #9042022393
2007, “1981: Movies Go Back to the Future,” In American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations. Ed. Stephen Prince, Rutgers U P. ISBN #0813540348
2007, “Fantasy, Celebrity and ‘Family Values’ in High-End and Special Event Tourism in Ireland,” In Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture. Eds. Moynagh Sullivan, Wanda Balzano and Anne Mulhall, Palgrave MacMillan, 141-156. ISBN #0230008704
2007, “An American Werewolf in London” In America First: Naming the Nation in US FilmEd. Mandy Merck, Routledge, 199-213. ISBN #0415374952
2006, “Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future,” (with Yvonne Tasker) Camera Obscura62 21(2) (August) 170-176
2006, “Romance And/As Tourism: Heritage Whiteness and the (Inter)National Imaginary in the New Woman’s Film,” in Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader. Eds. Elizabeth Ezra & Terry Rowden, London: Routledge P, 169-180 (reprint) ISBN #0415371589
2004, “’Queen of the Indies:’ Parker Posey’s Niche Stardom and the Taste Cultures of Independent Film” in Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream. Eds. Chris Holmlund & Justin Wyatt, Routledge P, 71-88. ISBN #0415254876
2004, “Irishness, Innocence and American Identity Politics Before and After 11 September,” in Keeping It Real: Irish Film and Television. Eds. Ruth Barton & Harvey O’Brien, Wallflower P, 54-68. ISBN # 190336494
2004, “Quality Postfeminism?: Sex and the Single Girl on HBO.” Genders 39.
2004, “The Gump-ification of Academia?: Teaching the Ideological Analysis of Popular Film and Television” (with Walter Metz) in Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation. Ed. Kecia Driver McBride, U of Tennessee P. ISBN #1572333219
2002, “Ethnic Food Fetishism, Whiteness and Nostalgia in Recent Film and Television,” The Velvet Light Trap 50 (Fall), 62-76.
2002, “The Fictionalized Ethnic Biography: Nita Naldi and the Crisis of Assimilation,” in American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices. Eds. Thomas J. Slater & Gregg Bachman, Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 176-200. ISBN #0809324016
2002, “Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology,” Camera Obscura Special Issue devoted to Early Women Stars 48 16(3), 159-195.
2002, “Re-Made for Television: Hedy Lamarr’s Postwar Star Textuality,” in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s. Ed. Janet Thumim, I.B.Tauris/St. Martin’s P, 105-111. ISBN # 1860646824
2001, “The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent U.S. Television,” Irish Studies Review 9(2) (August, 2001) 229-239.
2001, “Romance And/As Tourism: Heritage Whiteness and the (Inter)National Imaginary in the New Woman’s Film,” in Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies Eds. Amy Villarejo & Matthew Tinkcom, Routledge P, 82-97 ISBN #0415202817
2001, “Consuming Ireland: Lucky Charms Cereal, Irish Spring Soap, and 1-800- SHAMROCK,” Cultural Studies 15(1) (Jan. 2001) (Special Issue devoted to Irish Cultural Studies), 76-97.
1999, “Titanic, Survivalism and the Millennial Myth,” in Titanic: Anatomy of a BlockbusterEds. Gaylyn Studlar & Kevin Sandler, Rutgers U P, 220-238 ISBN #0813526698
1996, "Coveting the Feminine: Victor Frankenstein, Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill," Literature/Film Quarterly 24(2), 193-200.
