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Jo Coghlan
Jo Coghlan is an associate professor of social and philosophical inquiry at University of New England (Australia). Her research interests are in popular culture and material culture with an emphasis on food, royalty, film and television, political representations of women, fashion studies and death studies. Her recent publications have appeared in the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Media/Culture, the International Journal of James Bond Studies, Film, Fashion and Consumption and has upcoming articles in Clothing Cultures. Her next book is the Royals in Popular Culture (Routledge), due in 2024 with Dr Lisa Hackett and Huw Nolan, and The Cultural and Social History of the Swimsuit (Reaktion Book), due out in 2025. Her ongoing research projects are on representations of pigs in popular culture, the social history of food, typologies of the Australian noir genre and researching the lost town of Yallourn in Victoria. Jo, Lisa and Huw are the founding members and lead researchers at UNE’s Popular Culture Research Network, Australia’s leading research network in popular culture.