Dr Michelle Phillipov
Lecturer, Honours, First-year & Coordinator (Journalism, Media and Communications)
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Humanities Building |
| Room Reference |
567 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 2784 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 7631 |
| Email |
Michelle.Phillipov@utas.edu.au |
General Responsibilities
Michelle is a Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications. Prior to joining UTAS in 2009, she taught communications and cultural studies at the University of South Australia, and completed her PhD at the University of Adelaide. Michelle’s research explores the pleasures and politics of ‘extreme’ media and cultural forms, including food, health and music. She is the author of Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits (Lexington Books, 2012), and she is currently writing Fats: A Global History for Reaktion Books (scheduled for 2015).
Research
Michelle is available to supervise Honours and Research Higher Degree projects in the following areas:
- Popular music
- Food
- Media and public health
- Media controversy
- ‘Extreme’ cultures
A full list of her publications
Teaching Responsibilities
In 2012, Michelle was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Citation for an Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for the development of curricula that equips students to make ‘real life’ connections between theory and practice in journalism, media and communications.
She currently coordinates and teaches the following units:
- HEJ102 Media Texts and Industries
- HEJ231 Media Cultures
- HEJ335 Media and Music
Publications
Edited Collections:
- 2009, Stuck in the Middle: The Mainstream and Its Discontents, Selected Proceedings of the 2008 IASPM-ANZ Conference, IASPM-ANZ (co-edited with Catherine Strong).
Journal Articles:
- 2010, '"Generic Misery Music"? Emo and the Problem of of Contemporary Youth Culture', Media International Australia, no.136, pp. 60-70
- 2009, '"Just Emotional People"? Emo Culture and the Anxieties of Disclosure, M/C Journal, vol. 12, no. 5 < journal.media-culture.org.au>
- 2006, 'Haunted by the Spirit of '77: Punk Studies and the Persistence of Politics', Continuum: Journal of Cultural and Media Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 383-394.
- 2006, '"None So Vile"? Towards an Ethics of Death Metal', Southern Review vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 74-85.
Books
- 2012 (forthcoming), Death Metal at the Limits of Criticism, Lexington Books
Book Chapters:
- 2008, 'Metal "Downunderground": Mapping the Terrain of the "Great Southern Wasteland"', in Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, eds Shane Homan & Tony Mitchell, ACYS Publishing, pp. 215-230.
- 2011(forthcoming), 'Extreme Music for Extreme People? Norwegian Black Metal and Transcendent Violence', in Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures, eds Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris and Mark Le Vine, Equinox.
Published Conference Papers:
- 2008, 'A "Nihilistic Dreamboat to Negation"? The Critical Marginalisation of Heavy/Extreme Metal', IASPM-ANZ 2007 Conference Proceedings, ed. Dan Bendrups, IASPM-ANZ, pp. 131-136.
Conference Papers:
- 2010, 'The Pleasures of Popular Music: Methological Considerations in the Understanding of Entertainment', Media, Democracy and Change, ANZCA, Canberra.
- 2009, '"Generic Misery Music": Moral Panic and the "Value" of Emo', What's it Worth? Value and Popular Music, IASPM-ANZ, Auckland.
- 2009, '"Bodies Prepared for Slaughter": Death Metal at the Limits of Communication', Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship, ANZCA, Brisbane.
- 2008,'Scream Bloody Gore: Carcass and the 'Obscene' Pleasures of Reek of Putrefaction and Symphonies of Sickness', Stuck in the Middle: The Mainstream and its Discontents, IASPM-ANZ, Brisbane.
- 2007, 'A "Nihilistic Dreamboat to Negation"? The Critical Marginalisation of Heavy/Extreme Metal', Music on the Edge, IASPM-ANZ, Dunedin, NZ.
- 2005, '"None So Vile"'? Towards an Ethics of Death Metal', Culture Fix, CSAA, Sydney.
- 2004, '"Septic Vomit of Chyme": Death Metal Vocality and the Disavowal of Identification', Critical Animals: Postgraduates Working in the New Medias, Newcastle.
- 2004,'A Gateway to Annihilation? Death Metal and the Reorientation of Listening', Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian, CSAA, Fremantle.
- 2003, 'The Road to Hel: Extreme Metal and the Question of Gender', Sonic Synergies, Creative Cultures, IASPM-ANZ, Adelaide.
