Sociology Program
Staff Directory
| Dr Tania Lewis |
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Charles La Trobe Fellow
Room: Martin Building 445
Tel: +61 3 9479 2743
Fax: +61 3 9479 2705
Email: t.lewis@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: MBBS (Otago), BA (Hons) & MA (Canterbury, NZ), PhD (Melb)
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Tania Lewis worked as a medical practitioner in NZ before retraining in the humanities. She has taught in media studies and cultural studies and has conducted research in a variety of areas including: lifestyle media, culture and consumption; popular experts and celebrity intellectuals; the intellectual history of cultural studies; the network university; and health and lifestyle information on the internet. She recently moved to La Trobe from Monash University where she was a Research fellow in Education. From 2003-2005 she was based in the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne as the R.D. Wright Research Fellow and in 2002 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
Her current research projects include:
- The ethical turn in lifestyle consumption
- A comparative international study of lifestyle television, collaborating with Dr Fran Martin (University of Melbourne).
Publications
List of recent publications
(Also see: http://www.tanialewis.net/)
Teaching - 2009
ANT2PCP/ANT3PCP: Perspectives on Consumption and the Popular
Graduate Supervision
I greatly enjoy supervision and have supervised theses in the fields of media and communications, education and the sociology of health.
I am happy to supervise theses in the following areas:
- Consumer culture and branding
- ‘Alternative’, ethical and eco-lifestyles
- Sociology of media and new technologies
- International and comparative approaches to media
- Social and cultural theory
Professional Involvements
- Member of ARC Cultural Research Network
- Member of Cultural Studies Association of Australia
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