Lecturer

Department of Film, Media & Journalism

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

Dee joined the Department in August 2009 from Oxford Brookes University where she managed the undergraduate programme in Communication, Media and Culture.

Dee has a PhD in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MSc in Gender, Society and Culture and an MA in Renaissance Studies, both from Birkbeck College, University of London , and a BA in Politics from the University of Lancaster.

Dee’s research interests focus on the representation of gender and sexuality across a range of media. Her PhD thesis looked at controversial representations of gender and sexuality in UK advertising, but more recently her work has focused on television, in particular on fictional representations within the genre of telefantasy. She has written on the work of Joss Whedon and is currently working on Doctor Who and the spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah-Jane Adventures.

Dee’s past teaching includes modules on advertising, media and critcal theory, media audiences, broadcast news, and an interdisicplinary module in culture, gender and sexuality.  

• Dee Amy-Chinn (forthcoming 2011) ‘Davies, Dawkins and Deus ex TARDIS: Who finds God in the Doctor? in Ruminations, Peregrinations and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who (ed. Christopher Hansen), Cambridge Scholars Press
• Dee Amy-Chinn (forthcoming, 2010) ‘Gender and Advertising’, in The Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture, CQ Press.
• Dee Amy-Chinn ‘Red Dwarf’, in The Essential Cult Television Reader, (ed. David Laverey), University of Kentucky Press.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2009) ‘Is Queer Biology a Useful Tool for Queer Theology’, Theology & Sexuality, Vol. 15(1): 47-61.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2008) ‘Rose Tyler: The Ethics of Care and the Limits of Agency’, Science Fiction Film and Television. Vol. 1(2): 231-247.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2007) ‘Regulating Against Offence: lessons from the field of UK advertising’, Media & Critical Theory, Vol. 29(6): 1036-1048.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2006) ‘Making it Safe to Think Differently About Sex in the Academy’, Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies, Vol. 6(1): 189-209.
• Dee Amy-Chinn, Christian Jantzen, and Per Østergaard (2006) ‘Doing and Meaning: Towards an integrated approach to the study of women’s relationship to underwear’, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 6(3): 379-401.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2006) ‘This is just for me(n): how the regulation of postfeminist lingerie advertising perpetuates woman as object’, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 6(2): 155-175.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2006) ‘’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: Postfeminist Prostitution in Joss Whedon’s Firefly?’ Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 6(2): 175-189.
• Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson (2005) ‘The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 8(3): 275-288.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2005) ‘Queering the Bitch: Spike, Transgression and Erotic Empowerment’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 8(3): 313-328.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2003) ‘Good Vampires Don’t Suck: Sex, Celibacy and the Body of Angel’, in Carla T. Jungl (ed.) Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Inter-disciplinary Press (e-book).
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2003) ‘Thinking Differently: Mass Hysteria by Lisa Blackman and Valerie Walkerdine’, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol, 20(3): 149-154.
• Dee Amy-Chinn (2001) ‘Sex Offence: The Cultural Politics of Perfume’, Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 12(2): 164-175.