Professor Jackie Stacey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2026
- Subjects
- Media, performance and communications
- Sections
- Culture, Media and Performance
Summary
Professor Jackie Stacey is currently Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture in the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, where she has worked since 2007. Her previous position was in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Lancaster, following doctoral research in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Running across her interdisciplinary research interests on gender, sexuality, cultural politics, psychoanalysis, cinema and the visual arts has been a concern with changing formations of fantasy, processes of subjectivity and modes of embodiment.
Her publications include 'Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship' (1994), 'Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer' (1997), 'Global Nature, Global Culture' (with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury, 2000) and 'The Cinematic Life of the Gene' (2010). Her co-edited collections include 'Off Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies' (with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury, 1991), 'Screen Histories: A Screen Reader' (with Annette Kuhn, 1999), 'Thinking Through the Skin' (with Sara Ahmed, 2001), 'Queer Screen: A Screen Reader' (with Sarah Street, 2006) and 'Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism' (with Janet Wolff, 2013).
She was a co-editor of 'Screen' from 1994 to 2024, and of 'Feminist Theory' from 2006 to 2012. Alongside her academic work, she regularly collaborates with several civic and arts organisations in Manchester, and she is a trained Groupwork Practitioner (Institute of Group Analysis) and a trustee of Group Analysis North.