Rate My Professor Rosemary Overell

Dr. Rosemary Overell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago, situated within the Division of Humanities. She earned her BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne, completing her doctorate in 2012 with a thesis titled Brutal Belonging: Affective Intensities In, and Between, Australia's and Japan's Grindcore Scenes. Overell joined the University of Otago in 2013 after teaching in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Between 2021 and 2023, she served in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. She currently convenes the Master of Arts (Coursework) programme for the Division of Humanities and coordinates papers including MFCO 103 Introduction to Communication Studies, MFCO 213 Media Genres: Crime, and MFCO 401 Advanced Media, Film & Communication Theory. Her teaching covers digital media and identity, contemporary media studies, critical journalism studies, and music cultures.

Overell's research focuses on Lacanian media studies, Lacanian feminist theory, and subcultural studies, particularly extreme metal and punk subcultures, alongside gender studies, Japanese and Asian studies, and ethnographic methodologies. Her book Affective Intensities in Extreme Music Scenes: Cases from Australia and Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) has received over 100 citations. Other significant publications include '(I) hate girls and emo(tions): Negotiating masculinity in grindcore music' (Popular Music History, 2012, 27 citations), 'Emo online: networks of sociality/networks of exclusion' (Perfect Beat, 2011, 21 citations), Post-truth and the mediation of reality: New conjunctures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 25 citations), and Orienting Feminism: Media, Activism and Cultural Representation (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She organized conferences such as trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity (2015) and Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a Post-truth Era (2017). Overell serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Continental Thought & Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom, Metal Music Studies, and Puratoke: Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Creative Arts and Industries. She was a fellow in Nagoya University's Gender Studies programme under Professor Chika Tanimoto.