Sally Rowena Munt

Sally Rowena Munt is a feminist academic and author. She has written several books including "Murder by the Book: Feminism and the Crime Novel".

She grew up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and has worked at several British universities. She is currently Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Her scholarship is concerned with gender/sexuality studies, class and cultural politics, and spatial theory.

"Murder by the Book: Feminism and the Crime Novel"

This is a look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States.

Munt asks why the form has proven so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader.

Munt has written a number of other books including:

Technospaces: Inside the New Media.

(editor) Continuum, New York & London, 2001. Sixteen essays from international contributors that critically examine the deployment of spatial theory & practices in new media technologies. pp.280

Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change

(editor) Cassell Academic - Contemporary Studies Series, London & New York, 2000. The collection revisits and critically revises modalities and methodologies of class analysis in popular culture, television and film. What happened to class in Cultural Studies? Can we rethink disciplinary approaches in the light of subsequent work on race, gender, and sexuality? pp.240.

Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space

(author) New York University Press, New York, 1998; Cassell Academic - Contemporary Studies Series, London, 1998. This book examines constructions of identity as expedient forms of resistance, as they provide a fantasy embodiment of utopian agency, through cultural myth making (such as the heroic narrative), within counter-cultural discourse. The argument makes use of current spatial and gender theory in formulating an understanding of sexual identity. pp.184.

Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender

(editor). Cassell Academic - Contemporary Studies Series, London & Washington, 1998. Essays in gender semiotics and the “gender performativity” theories of feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who also provides an Afterword. pp. 244 (large format)

Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction

(co-editor) Cassell Academic - Contemporary Studies Series, London & Washington, 1997. Co- edited with Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex. Analytical textbook with 26 essays from key academics from the UK, U.S.A., and Australia. pp.388.

New Lesbian Criticism : Literary and Cultural Readings

(editor) Columbia University Press, New York, 1992; Harvester Wheatsheaf/Simon & Schuster, Hemel Hempstead, 1992. Literary criticism/Cultural Studies.pp.207.

Sally R Munt also has a current project on

Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame.

Analyses the emotional othering of the poor, the queer and the Irish in popular culture and representation, especially television. IAshgate Publishers, 2007. 85,000 words. ISBN 0-7546-4921-0 Hardback and ISBN 0-7546-4923-7 Paperback

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