Rate My Professor Rosemary Overell

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.