Skip to content
Skip to navigation menu

Professor Terry Threadgold - MA (Syd), PhD (Monash)

Overview

Professor Terry Threadgold Position: Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, Pro Vice Chancellor STAFF Email: ThreadgoldT2@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44 (0)29 208 74756
Fax: N/A
Extension: 74756
Location: Room 0.31B, Bute Building

As Pro Vice Chancellor (PVC) staff Terry works as Link PVC to the six Humanities Schools at Cardiff University (HISAR, ENCAP, WELSH, RELIG, MUSIC, and EUROS), acting as a link between their heads and the University Board and Vice Chancellor, and supporting them to maintain their strategic directions. She works closely with the Directorate of Corporate Services and Human Resources and with the Director of Human Resources and her staff.

Her role is to offer the strategic and academic leadership which ensures that their strategic and operational concerns are firmly linked to the core teaching and research business of the university and to the well being of all university staff.

She is chair of the university’s Equal Opportunities and Diversity Committee, chair of the Positive working Environment Steering Committee, vice chair of the University Promotions Committee and of the Human Resources Committee.

Research Interests

Terry has published widely in the areas of postructuralist feminist discourse analysis, performance studies, feminist legal studies and on race, identity and nation in contexts of globalisation.

She has also worked and published in the areas of postgraduate pedagogy and literacy and has a continuing interest in her current position in the training of journalists, journalism studies and media studies. Her current research interests include: media, representation and asylum; journalism and conflict and migration and social cohesion

Teaching

As Pro Vice Chancellor (August 1st., 2007)my teaching is now restricted to guest spots on other people’s modules and to PhD supervision.

Publications

Selected Publications:

Bookcover of 'Shoot First and Ask Questions Later' by Professor Terry Threadgold

With Justin Lewis, Rod Brookes and Nick Mosdell (2006) Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, Peter Lang Publishers.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Feminist Poetics: Poeisis, Performance, Histories London: Routledge.

Bookcover for 'Feminine, Masculine and Representation' by Professor Terry Threadgold

Terry Threadgold, 1992, Christie, Frances, Devlin, Brian, Freebody, Peter, Luke, Allan, Martin, J.R., Threadgold Terry and Christine Walton, 1992, Teaching Critical Social Literacy: A Project of National Significance on the Preservice Preparation of Teachers for teaching English Literacy. Report to the Federal Government. Vols. I & II. Canberra: Department of Education, Employment and Training.

Terry Threadgold and Anne Cranny-Francis eds., 1990, Feminine/ Masculine and Representation. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold, eds., 1988. Language Topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday . 2 Volumes.( 1000 pages ) Benjamins: Amsterdam.

Articles and Chapters in Books:

1. Law, Literature, Gender:

Terry Threadgold, 1991, 'Legal Practice in the Courts: Discourse, Gender and Ethics', Australian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 7, 1991, Law and Literature Special Issue, ed. Kathe Boehringer and Peter Wilmshurst. pp. 39 - 70.

Terry Threadgold, 1993, (Sept.), Critical Theory, Feminisms, The Judiciary and Rape, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1993.

Terry Threadgold, 1994, Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice: Critical and Cultural Difference. Review Article, Law. Text, Culture, pp. 140-147.

Terry Threadgold, 1994, The Poetics of Child Abuse. In: P. Williams and G. Neville Turner eds, The Happy Couple. Proceedings of the Law and Literature Conference, Monash 1991. Federation Press. pp.322-341.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Narrative and Legal Texts: Telling Stories about Women Who Kill, invited paper presented at the UTS Ultimo Seminar Series in May 1996, UTS Review: Cultural studies and New Writing, Vol. 3, No. 1, May 1997, pp. 56-73

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Performativity, Regulative Fictions, Huge Stabilities - Framing Battered Woman’s Syndrome, Law, Text, Culture, Vol. 3, 1997, pp. 210-231.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Regulative Fictions: Translations and Performing Subversions, Law/Text/ Culture, Vol. 3, 210-231.

Penny Pether and Terry Threadgold, 2000, Feminist Methodologies in Discourse Analysis: Sex, Property, Equity? in Cate Poynton and Alison Lee eds., Culture and Text. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Terry Threadgold, 2000, Reading the Readings of Richard A. Posner, 1998, Law and Literature, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Harvard University Press, Melbourne Law Review, 2000.

Terry Threadgold, 2002, ‘Lawyers Reading Lore/Law as Popular Culture: Conflicting Paradigms of Representation’ in Margaret Thornton ed., Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism. London: Cavendish. ISBN 1 85941 723 X

2. Law, Aboriginality and Native Title:

Terry Threadgold, 1996, Black Man, White Woman, Irresistible Impulse: Media, Law and Literature Making the Black Murderer. In: D. Frazer and Cheah Peng eds., Thinking Through The Body of the Law. Allen & Unwin, pp. 163-186.

Terry Threadgold, 1999, Legal Witchcraft and the Craft of Fiction: Wik and its Literary Precedentsâ, in Alison Bartlett, Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee eds., Australian Literature and the Public Sphere. Refereed Proceedings ASAL 1998. Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Terry Threadgold,, 1999, Law as/of Property, Judgment as Dissension: Feminist and postcolonial Inerventions in the Networksâ, American Journal of Law and Semiotics, Vol. 12 (4), 1999.

3. Feminist Discourse Analysis, Semiotics and Post-)Structuralism:

Terry Threadgold, 1989, 'Paradigms of Culture and Semiosis: Grammatics for Cryptogrammars or Metalanguage for the Ineffable?' In Walter A. Koch ed., Evolution of Culture - Evolution der Kultur, proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium, September 19-23,1988, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy. Bochum: Brockmeyer. pp. 157-224.

Terry Threadgold, 1991, "Postmodernism, Systemic-Functional Linguistics as Metalanguage and the Practice of Cultural Critique". In: Frances Christie ed., Literacy in Social Processes: Proceedings from the Inaugural Australian Functional linguistics Conference held at Deakin University. Darwin: Centre for Studies in language Education, Northern Territory University.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, The Social Media of Semiosis. Article 14 In: Roland Posner, Klaus Robering and Thomas A. Sebeok eds., Semiotics: A Handbook on the Sign-Theoretic Foundations of NaturSe and Culture. Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp.384-404.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Literary Structuralism and Semiotics, in Peter V. Lamarque ed., Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language, UK, USA, Japan: Elsevier Science Ltd., Pergamon, pp. 129-145.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, An Interview with Terry Threadgold on Critical Discourse Analysis with Barbara Kamler, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 18, No. 3, 437-452.

Penny Pether and Terry Threadgold, 2000, Feminist Methodologies in Discourse Analysis: Sex, Property, Equity? in Cate Poynton and Alison Lee eds., Culture and Text. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Terry Threadgold, 2000, Introduction to Poststructuralism and Language, in Cate Poynton and Alison Lee eds., Culture and Text, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Terry Threadgold, 2003, ‘Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories, Remembering and Futures’, LinguistikOnline , ed., Antje Hornsheidt, Special Issue: ‘Is linguistics (part of) Cultural Studies? Kulturanalyse in der Linguistik – ist Linguistik eine Kulturwissenschaft? Herausgegeberin/Editor: Antje Hornscheidt. Linguistik online

4. Language and Gender

Terry Threadgold, 1988, 'Language and Gender', Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.3, pp. 41-70.

Terry Threadgold, 1998, ‘ Women and Language’, Oxford Australian Feminism: A Comnpanion, ed., B. Caine, M. Gatens, E. Grahame, J. Larbelestier, S. Watson and E. Webby. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5. Genre

Terry Threadgold, 1988, 'The Genre Debate.', Southern Review, Vol. 21, Number 3, November 1988, pp.315-30.

Terry Threadgold and Gunther Kress, 1988, 'Toward a Social Theory of Genre.' Southern Review, Vol.21, Number 3, November 1988, pp.215-243.

Terry Threadgold, 1989 'Talking about Genre : Ideologies and Incompatible Discourses.' Journal of Cultural Studies , Vol.3, No. 3, January 1989. pp.101-127.

Terry Threadgold, 1993, 'Performing Genre: Violence, the Making of Protected Subjects, and the Discourses of Critical literacy and Radical Pedagogy.' Plenary paper delivered at the International Domains of Literacy Conference, University of London Institute of Education, September 1992. Published in: Domains of Literacy, Changing English, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 2-31.

Terry Threadgold, 1993, 'Genre', Volume 3, The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon and Aberdeen University Press. Pp. 1408-1411.

'Terry Threadgold, 1993, 'Structuralism and Semiotics, Literary', Volume 8, The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon and Aberdeen University Press. Pp. 4359-4373.

Terry Threadgold, 1994, Grammar, Genre and the Ownership of Literacy, Idiom, Vol.XXIX, No.2, August 1994, pp. 20-28.

Reprinted in the ETA NSW journal, The Teaching of English, July 1995, Volume 3, pp.62-70.

6. Narrative

2000, ‘Telling Tales out of School’, Studies in the Education of Adults, Spring 2000.

Terry Threadgold, 2003, Review of Ursula K. Heise, Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative and Postmodernism. Cambridge University Press, 1997, in Time and Society, Vol. 12, Nos. 2/3, 2003, pp. 373 - 375.

Terry Threadgold, 2005, ‘Performing Theories of Narrative: Theorising Narrative Performance’, in Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates eds., The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Michael Bamberg, Series ed., Studies of Narrative Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 261-278. Paper originally delivered as part of the plenary discussion at the 5th. Cardiff Roundtable in Sociolinguistics: Narrative as Resource, Gregynog, July 2001.

Terry Threadgold, 2005, three 1000 word entries ( Narrative, Text, Writing) in Tony Bennett, Meaghan Morris and Larry Grossberg eds., New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Blackwells.

7. Performance and Rehearsal (see also Feminist Poetics, Routledge, 1997):

Terry Threadgold, 1995, Postmodernism and the Politics of Culture: Chekhov's Three Sisters in Rehearsal and Performance, Symposium: The Politics of Culture, Southern Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, July 1995, pp.172-182.

Terry Threadgold, 1993, 'Performing Genre: Violence, the Making of Protected Subjects, and the Discourses of Critical literacy and Radical Pedagogy.' Plenary paper delivered at the International Domains of Literacy Conference, University of London Institute of Education, September 1992. Published in: Domains of Literacy, Changing English, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 2-31.

Bookcover of 'Feminist Poetics' by Professor Terry Threadgold

Terry Threadgold, 2002, ‘Networks of Bodies and Texts: Accidents and/as Social Semiotics’, in Zeichenprocesse in Komplexen Systemen – Sign Processes in Complex Systems. Akten des 7. Internationalen Kongresses der International Association for Semiotic Studies, Ed., Walter Schmitz. Dresden: Thelem. (Dresdner Studien zur Semiotik – Dresden Studies in Semiotics: 350 pp. + CD-Rom). ISBN: 3-933592-21-6.

8. Media, Literacy and Cultural Theory:

Terry Threadgold, 1994, Linguistic Utopias, Political Ventriloquism and ALBE. Fine Print, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.10 - 16.

Terry Threadgold, 1994, ‘Plain English: The Politics of Working on the Margins’, Polemic, October, pp. 70-82.

Reprinted in Rapport, International Newsletter, "News about Plain Language." Ed. Cheryl Stephens, Vancouver, B.C.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Cultural Theory, Community Politics and the Media, in Paolo Bartolini, K. Lynch and S. Kendall eds., Intellectuals and Publics: Essays on Cultural Theory and Practice. Melbourne: School of English, Latrobe University, pp. 117-130.

Terry Threadgold, 1997, Critical Literacies and the Teaching of English. In: Peter Freebody, Sandy Muspratt and Allan Luke eds., Constructing Critical Literacies: Teaching and Learning Textual Practice, New York: Hampton Press, pp. 353-387.

Terry Threadgold and Barbara Kamler, 1997, Which Thesis did you read?, Policy and Practice of Tertiary Literacy, Selected Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice, ed., S. Golebiowski, Vol. 1, Melbourne: Victoria University of Technology, pp. 42-59.

Terry Threadgold, (1998), ‘Captain Cook’s Shoes or From Professor to Administrator, A Journey in Need of a Compass and a Clock’, In John Bigelow ed., Our Cultural Heritage, Original Paper 20, Papers from the 1997 Symposium of The Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, The Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Terry Threadgold, 2001, The Sphinx, Cardinal Wolsey’s Hat and Metropolis Now, Plenary paper given at the conference: ‘The University As/In Contested Space’, University of British Columbia, May, 1998.

Terry Threadgold, 2001, Making Theories for Different Worlds: making critical differences, in Peter Freebody, Sandy Muspratt and Bronwyn Dwyer eds., Difference, Silence and Textual Practice: Studies in critical Literacy. New Jersey: Hampton Press.

9. Feminist Theory

Terry Threadgold, 1992, "Legislators and Interpreters: Linguists, Feminists and Critical Fictions." Meridian: La Trobe University English Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, May 1992. pp.76 - 91.

Terry Threadgold, 1996, Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, The Australian Universities’ Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, 46-48.

Terry Threadgold, 1996, Everyday Life in the Academy: Postmodern Feminisms, Generic Seductions, Rewriting and Being Heard.In: Carmen Luke ed., Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life, S.U.N.Y. Press, pp. 280-314.

Terry Threadgold, 1998, ‘Gender Studies and Women’s Studies’, in Knowing Ourselves and Others: The Humanities in Australia in the 21st. Century, prepared by a Reference Group for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Vol. 2, pp. 127-138. Republished under the same title in Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 1, No.1 2000.

Terry Threadgold, 2000, Feminist Interpretations and Challenges, Social Semiotics, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000.

10. War Reporting: the 2003 Iraq War
Bookcover of 'Too Close for Comfort?' by Professor Terry Threadgold

with Justin Lewis, Rod Brookes, Nick Mosdell, 2004, Too Close for Comfort? The Role of Embedded reporting During the Iraq War: Summary Report. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Research funded by BBC.

Terry Threadgold and Nick Mosdell, 2004, Embedded Reporting: Lessons Learned? Defence Management Journal, Issue 25, June 2004, pp. 12-15.

11. Drugs, Space and Culture

(original research funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia)

John Fitzgerald and Terry Threadgold, 2004, Fear of Sense in the Street Heroin Market, International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol. 15 (2004) 407-417.

John Fitzgerald and Terry Threadgold, 2004, Desire and the Abject in the City Becoming-Other, The Passionate City: An international Symposium, ed., Brian Morris and Deb Verhoeven. ISBN: 0864593317. Informit e-Library Collection

Peta Malins, John Fitzgerald and Terry Threadgold, 2006, Spatial ‘Folds’: the entwining of bodies, risks and city spaces for women injecting drug users in Melbourne’s CBD, Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 13, Number 5, 509 – 527.

John Fitzgerald and Terry Threadgold, 2007, ‘Desire and the Abject in the City Becoming-Other’, Cultural Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 105-120.

12. Race, Nation and Identity
Women and Ageing

Terry Threadgold, 2000, ‘When Home is always a Foreign Place: Diaspora, Dialogue, Translations’, Communal/Plural, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000.

Terry Threadgold, 2001, ‘Quando la Casa Reste un :Luogo Straniero: communita multiculturale e traduzione multimediale’, Athanor: Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Litteratura, ed. Susan Petrilli, Anno XII, nuovo serie, n. 4, 2001, pp. 191-206. Rome: Meltemi.

Terry Threadgold, 2001, ‘Tradurra la Differenza: il Cambiamento indotto dagli incontri trans-culturali’, in Patrizia Calefato, Gian Paolo Caprettini and Guilia Colaizzi eds., Incontri di Culture: La semiotica tra frontiere e traduzioni. Torino, Italy: UTET Libraria Srl.

Terry Threadgold, 2003, ‘When Home is Always a Foreign Place: Diaspora, Dialogue, Translations’, in Susan Petrilli ed., Translation Translation, Preface by Augusto Ponzio, Amsterdam:Rodopi BV. Reprinted from Communal/Plural Vol.8, No.2, 2000.

Terry Threadgold and Barbara Kamler, 2003, ‘Translating Difference’ Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol.24, No.2.

Nation, Race and Risk

Terry Threadgold, 2000, Versions of Multiculturalism: Nation, Race and Risk, Communal/Plural, Vol. 8, No.1.

Asylum and Refugees

Buchanan, Sara,Grillo Bethan and Terry Threadgold, 2003, What’s the Story? Sangatte: A case study of media coverage of asylum and refugee issues. Edited Bethan Grillo and Tom Wengraf. London: Article 19. Summary report. ISBN: 1 902598 - 58- X.

Buchanan, Sara, Grillo-Simpson, Bethan and Terry Threadgold, 2003, What’s The Story? Results from Research into Media Coverage of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. London: Article 19. ISBN: 1 902 598 62 8.

Buchanan, Sara, Grillo, Bethan, and Terry Threadgold, 2003, What’s the Story? Results from Research into Media Coverage of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. CD containing: Executive Summary and Recommendations, photographs, cartoons, coding sheets for monitoring press and broadcast media, questionnaire and sample profile for refugee interviews. Article 19.

Terry Threadgold, 2005, Performing Theories if Narrative:Theorising Narrative Performance, in Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates Eds., The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Michael Bamberg, Series ed., Studies of Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Terry Threadgold, 2006, Dialogism, Voice and Global Contexts: Asylum, Dangerous Men and Invisible Women’, In Anne Genovese and Mary Spongberg eds., Australian Feminist Studies, 21st. Birthday Issue. Vol. 21, No. 50, July 2006, 223- 244.

Threadgold, Terry with Kerry Moore and Bernhard Gross, 2007, Broadcast News Coverage of Asylum April – October 2006: Caught Between Human Rights and Public Safety. Literature Review, pp. 21-30, Terry Threadgold. Research funded by Oxfam. PDF

Refugee Inclusion

Threadgold, Terry, and Sadie Clifford, 2005, Findings from Focus Groups with Refugees: Report to the Welsh Refugee Council and the Welsh Assembly Government. http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/housingandcommunity/research/?lang=en

Threadgold, Terry and Geoff Court, 2005, Refugee Inclusion: A Literature Review. Produced for the Welsh Refugee Council and the Welsh Assembly Government.

Threadgold, Terry 2005, Findings and Recommendations from Refugee Inclusion: A Literature Review. Pp. 1-8. http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/housingandcommunity/research/?lang=en

Migration and Social Cohesion

Threadgold, Terry, 2007, Constructing Community in South-East Wales. Full Report: Research Completed for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2005-6 on Migration and Social Cohesion in Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil. The research was carried out by a team including Sadie Clifford, Abdi Arwo, Vanessa Bucolli, Zahera Harb, Xinyi Jiang, and John Jewell. Narmala Halstead and Gill Branston acted as consultants to the team.

Forthcoming

The Joseph Rowntree Final Report (25,000 words) and Findings will be published on the Rowntree website in May 2008.

The research was carried out by a team including Sadie Clifford, Abdi Arwo, Vanessa Bucolli, Zahera Harb, Xinyi Jiang, and John Jewell. Narmala Halstead and Gill Branston acted as consultants to the team.

Research

Terry’s funded research since 2002 has included:

2006-7: Oxfam, Intervening in Broadcast Media Representation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Principal investigator.

2005-7: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Constructing Community in South-East Wales: Migration and Social Cohesion. Principal Investigator.

2003: Embedded Journalists in the Iraq War. Funded by BBC, London. Co-investigator with Justin Lewis, Nick Mosdell and Rod Brookes.

2002-4: Comic Relief 2002-2004. With Oxfam and the Media Working Group in Wales, Gender and the media representation of asylum seekers and refugees.

2002-2003: Writing Wales Differently, DFID, A creative writing and drama project in Swansea and Newport schools with asylum seeker writers as co-researchers and teachers.

Representing Asylum Seekers: Monitoring the Print and Television Coverage of Asylum Seekers. With Article 19. Funded by the Rowntree Foundation, Oxfam and others.

Postgraduate Students

PhD Supervisions

Terry has supervised PhD Theses in the following areas: Law, Literature and Gender; Poststructuralist Feminist Discourse Analysis; Language and Gender; Theories of Genre; Performance and Rehearsal; Media, Literacy and Cultural Theory; Feminist Theory.

Terry is currently supervising:

Maxwell Mthembu, Development and New Technology in the SADC: South Africa and Swaziland.

Bernhard Gross, Controlling the Imaginary Border: coverage of migration on television news.

Nasheli Jimenez-del-val, Cannibalism: Graphic Representations of Power.

Liezel Longboan, Blogging as a means for ethnic minorities in the Philippines to (re)define who they are.

Submitted 2007

Zahera Harb, Journalism in Conflict Situations: Lebanon. Submitted.

Eghosa, Aimufua, The Nigerian Public Sphere. Submitted

Past Research Students include:

Dr. Jan Wright, The Social Construction of Sexuality and Gender Relations in the Sports Lesson as Institution. Sydney 1992.

Dr. Kerrie Williams, Joking A Part: The Modalities of Feminist Humour in Performance. Sydney 1993

Dr. Susan Yell, A Critical Linguistic Study of Conversational Texts in the Contemporary Novel. Syndey 1993.

Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Feminist Re-Writing Strategies and the Construction of Psychology as Discipline: a social semiotic account of some of psychology's texts. Sydney 1994, University Medal.

Dr. Mary (Christine) O'Sullivan, Current Practices in Reading and Writing Literature for Children: Canons, Popular Culture, Gender relations and the Making of Literate Subjects. Sydney 1994.

Dr. Lesley Speed, Spectacle and Utopia in the American Teen Comedy. Monash 1996.

Dr. Bridget Bainbridge, Pornography: a reinterpretation. Monash 1996.

Dr. Sally Macarthur, A Feminist Musicology, Monash 1997.

Dr. Nina Puren, Partners in Crime: Romance and its Alibis for Rape. Monash 1998

Dr. Ian Roderick, Bodies, Spaces, Knowledges: the extra-local organisation of colonial perceptions and practical sense. Monash 1998.

Dr. Rachel Fensham, Feminist Performance: History and Theory. Monash 1998

Deborah Rechter, Balancing the Books: Frances Burney and the Economy of the Proper. Monash 1998.

Dr. Marsha Berry, Listening and the Rehearsal Process. Monash 1999.

Dr. Kate Cregan, Anatomy, Theatre, Law: the body in seventeenth century England. Monash 1999.

Dr. Julia Quilter, Rape and Sexual Assault: some nineteenth century fictions. Monash 1999.

Dr. Anna Dacre, Media. Law, Cultural Studies. Monash 2001.

Dr. Jonathon Morrow, The Skin of the Law: The Rhetoric and Performance of the Judgment in Australia. English. Monash 2001

Dr. Kerrie Schaeffer, The representation of women in text-based and non-text based (that is, movement, corporeal, visual) theatre/performance. Monash 2001.

Dr. John Fitzgerald, Theorising Injecting Drug Use: Visuality, Spatiality, and Cultural Studies Perspectives. Monash 2003.

Eva Veith, A Comparison of British and Journalism Photojournalism in the Second World War. Cardiff 2001.

Valia Papoutsaki, Media Policy and French Broadcasting. Cardiff 2002.

Peter Twaites, Semiotics, Modernity and British Photojournalism. Cardiff 2002.

Catherine Yoon, Advertisements in Korean Women’s Magazines. Cardiff 2004.

Rebecca Farley, Playing Explorers: retracing Legendary Sea Voyages. Cardiff 2005.

Daniel Meadows, Photojournalism and Digital Story-Telling. Cardiff 2005.

Jenny Kidd, Digital Story-Telling and BBC Charter Renewal. Cardiff 2005.

Xinyi Jiang, Chinese Asylum Seekers in Cardiff. Cardiff 2005.

Zulhamri Abdullah, Public Relations: Education and Practice in Malaysia. Cardiff 2006.

Sophia Kanaouti, Histories of Literary Reading and Literacy Training: A Comparison of UK and Greece. Cardiff 2006.

Alex Rotas,. Signs of Difference: Contemporary Refugee Art in the UK. Bath Spa University College 2006.

Biography

Terry Threadgold is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Pro Vice Chancellor Staff, Cardiff University. She came to Cardiff in 1999 as a research professor in the run- up to the last RAE. She became head of JOMEC in 2003.

Terry was an undergraduate and a postgraduate student at Sydney University before being appointed to her first lectureship in the English Department in 1970. She was awarded the University Medal and First Class Honours for her Masters Thesis on the linguistic structure of Anglo-Saxon and English Augustan Poetry. While at Sydney she worked with others to set up the Centres for Womens’ Studies and Performance Studies She was Head of the Department of Early English Literature and Language within the English Department, before she left Sydney for Monash in 1993.

She went to Monash as Professor and Head of the Department of English. Later, she was Deputy Dean Graduate Studies, Director, Graduate School (1997-98), and Acting Dean (1988-89), Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. While at Monash, she won the Monash Postgraduate Association Supervisor of the Year Award in 1996, the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Supervision in 1997, and was named in a national Campus Review Independent Survey (1996) as ‘most respected teacher in English’ with the English Department at Monash the most popular Department in which to study English. From 1995-99 she was elected by the professors of the university to membership of the Monash Council.

Her funded Australian research included work on women and ageing, and on risk, communication and injecting drug use, both projects with a strong media element. Her book, Feminist Poetics: Poeisis, Performance, Histories (Routledge 1997), a study of race, nation and identity in Australia, remains a key text in the field of feminist cultural studies and critical discourse analysis.

From 200-2003 she was Director, The Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. She is currently Director of the Race, Nation and Identity research Group. She stepped down as Head of JOMEC in September 2007 after four years as head of school. In September 2007 JOMEC was named in a UK national survey as the nest place to study journalism in the UK.

She continues to publish widely. Her most recent publications include: Buchanan, Sara, Grillo-Simpson, Bethan and Terry Threadgold, 2003, What’s The Story? Results from Research into Media Coverage of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. London: Article 19 and her most recent book, with Justin Lewis, Nick Mosdell and Rod Brookes is Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War (Peter Lang 2006). She has just completed a Joseph Rowntree Foundation project on MIgration and Social Cohesion in South-East Wales.

She worked in 2005 – 6 with the Welsh Refugee Council and Welsh Assembly Government on research towards an inclusion policy for refugees in Wales. She is a Trustee for the Welsh Refugee Council (2005- present), sits on advisory boards for the AHRB Centre for Law and Sexuality and for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Poverty and Migration and Cohesion research Programmes, as well as acting as external examiner and assessor for universities and research councils in the UK, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Canada. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Kosovo Institute for Journalism and Communication (KIJAC) and a member of Cardiff University Council.