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Dr Laura Glitsos

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5689
Email: laura.glitsos@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML6.202  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2576-6371

Dr Laura Glitsos is the major coordinator for Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Humanities.

Current teaching

  • BDJ1000 - Introduction to Broadcasting and Digital Journalism
  • BDJ2200 - New Media and Social Influence
  • SAH1200 - Media and Culture
  • SAH3100 - Personal and Professional Planning.

Background

Dr Laura Glitsos began her career in media and communications in the early 2000s with a focus on music journalism. During this time, she also worked as a professional vocalist and was honoured with two West Australian Music Awards (2001, 2002). In the past decade, Dr Glitsos has lectured across the Arts and Humanities and has recently published her first sole-authored book titled Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts. She has also published in the field of cultural studies, popular music, and new media technologies.

Professional associations

  • Australian Women's History Network
  • Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
  • Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Awards and recognition

National and International Awards

  • 2021 - The IASPM-ANZ Rebecca Coyle Prize for Best Article

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2021 - Early to Mid-Career Researcher Symposium Presentation Award
  • 2018 - Curtin University Excellence in Teaching Award (Sessional Category).

Other

  • 2002 - West Australian Music Industry Award (WAMI) Best Female Vocalist
  • 2001 - West Australian Music Industry Award (WAMI) Best Female Vocalist.

Research areas and interests

  • New media
  • Popular Music
  • Digital Culture and Memes
  • Bodies and Technologies
  • Somatechnics
  • Journalism Education.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology, 2017.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Literary & Cultural Studies) Honours, Curtin University of Technology, 2012.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Communication & Cultural Studies), Curtin University of Technology, 2008.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Cullen, T., Glitsos, L., Burns, A. (2023). Revisiting news editors’ evaluation of journalism courses and graduate employability. Australian Journalism Review, 45(1), 73-92. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00119_1.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

  • Glitsos, L. (2020). Sia, This Is Acting. An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements (183-196). Bloomsbury Academic.

Journal Articles

Books

Book Chapters

  • Glitsos, L. (2019). Frontierswomen and the Perth Scene: Female Metal Musicians on the ‘Western Front’ and the Construction of the Gothic Sublime. Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures (91-107). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-167-420191004.

Journal Articles

  • Glitsos, L. (2019). From Rivers to Confetti: Reconfigurations of Time through New Media Narratives. M/C Journal, 22(6), 5 pages.
  • Glitsos, L., Hall, J. (2019). The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd. Journal for cultural research, 23(4), 381-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2019.1713443.

Journal Articles

  • Glitsos, L. (2018). The Camera Phone in the Concert Space Live Music and Moving Images on the Screen. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 12(1), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2018.2.
  • Glitsos, L. (2018). Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s. Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture, 19(2), 142-160. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.38592.
  • Glitsos, L. (2018). Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls. Popular Music, 37(1), 100-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143017000599.

Journal Articles

Conference Publications

  • Glitsos, L. (2014). The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music. Communities, Places, Ecologies: Proceedings of the 2013 IASPM-ANZ Conference (138-146). International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Connecting two neighbours through film festivals: The case for Australian and Indonesia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Return Serve: The Dialogical relationship in Australian and Chinese media coverage on Australia-China relations

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Mapping creative industries: A case study Oman's Media Sector

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Ángel del Hogar y Perfecta Casada / Angel of the Home and Perfect Wife: The Construction of Womanhood under the Sección Femenina during Post-Spanish Civil War Franco Dictatorship 1939–1975
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