Meredith Jones is Director of Research for the Department. She works at the intersections of media theory, gender studies, and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in popular culture, visuality, and embodiment, and has published widely in these areas. Her chapter ‘Media-Bodies and Photoshop’ (2013) is a good example of how she links them. She has recently edited a themed edition of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty about the Kardashians.
One of Meredith’s special subjects is cosmetic surgery; her first book, Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery (Berg, Oxford, 2008), is a foundational text in studies of Makeover Culture.
