Humanities and Social Sciences

Media Studies Program

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Sue Turnbull teaches courses on television, sex and the media, media audience research and has published widely in these areas. Other interests include the aesthetics of popular culture, the representations of crime, and Teen TV.

She is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and currently serves on a large number of editorial boards.

With Dr Felicity Collins, Dr Turnbull is the current holder of an ARC Discovery Grant which will consider the history and role of Australian screen comedy.

She is a co-convenor of the Australia wide readership network, Sisters in Crime Australia, and regularly reviews crime fiction for the Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers in Australia.

Some of her most recent publications include:

Text Books

Turnbull, Sue and Vyvyan Stranieri. Bite Me: Narrative Structures and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2003

Chapters in Books

Turnbull, Sue. Turnbull, Sue, 'Audiences' (revised) in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (eds), Media and Communication in Australia, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, (forthcoming 2006)

Turnbull, Sue. 'A Terrible Beauty: Thomas Harris, Red Dragon and the serial killer in crime fiction' in Alan McKee (ed) Beautiful Objects, Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming 2006)

Turnbull, Sue. 'The Mystery of the Missing Discourse: Crime Fiction Readerships and Questions of Taste' in Margaret Thornton (ed), Romancing the Tomes, Oxford: Clarendon Press , 2002 (241-256).

Turnbull, Sue. 'Once More with Feeling: Talking about the media violence debate in Australia' in Martin Barker and Julian Petley (eds), Ill Effects: The media violence debate , second edition, London: Routledge, 2001 (111-125).

Refereed Journals

Turnbull, Sue. 'Moments of Inspiration: Performing Spike' European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 8, no 3, 2005 (367-373).

Turnbull, Sue. 'Not just another Buffy paper': Towards an Aesthetics of Television' Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, vol 13/14, 2004, www.slayage.tv

Turnbull, Sue.'Look at Moiye, Kimmie': Kath and Kim and the Politics of Australian taste' Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, No 113, November 2004.

Turnbull, Sue, 'Who am I? Who are You?': On the Narrative Imperative of Not knowing Who you Are in Buffy the Vampire Slayer', Metro, No 137, 2003 (66-74).

Turnbull, Sue. 'Teaching Buffy : The Curriculum and the Text in Media Studies', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 7:1, March 2003 (19-31)

Turnbull, Sue, 'Nice Dress, Take it Off', Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text', International Journal of Cultural Studies , 5:1, 2002 (67-82).