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Caroline Bainbridge is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Culture in the Department of Media, Culture and Language, where she is a member of the programme team for taught degrees in Media, Culture and Identity, and she also supervises a number of research students.
Caroline is Director of the Media and the Inner World research network which she organises with Candida Yates of Bournemouth University and which was generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council between 2009-13. She has a number of editorial responsibilities, currently working as the Film Section Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and as Editor of Free Associations between 2010-2017. She is also a Series Editor (with Candida Yates) of the 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture' book list published by Routledge.
Her research interests are in cinema, television, gender, psychoanalysis, visual culture, the politics of identity, and the emotional turn in popular culture. Caroline welcomes proposals for research at both the MPhil and PhD levels.
1992 BA (Hons) Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.
1994 MA Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Sheffield.
1997 PhD Luce Irigaray, Women and Film, University of Sheffield.
2014 MA Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
2015 Fellowship of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
2016 Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Director of Studies for Current PhD Students
Supervisory expertise
Psychoanalysis and culture
Politics of gender
Image and identity
Critical theory
Film and Television Studies
Feminist criticism
Emotions in culture
PhD Supervised to Completion and Award
Member of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
Member of the Women's Media Studies Network
Member of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association
Member of the AHRC Peer Review College (Jan 2010-Dec 2018)
Fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (since Feb 2015)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (since May 2018)
Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (since Feb 2019)
Psychoanalysis and popular culture
Psychoanalysis and the media
Psychoanalytic approaches to media and organisations
Emotions and popular culture
Images of masculinity and femininity (TV, Film, Visual Culture)
The pleasures of DVD consumption
The cinema of Lars von Trier
The philosophy of Luce Irigaray
Process Consultancy with a homelessness organisation (Feb-Sept 2014).
Process Consultancy with a theatre group (Sept 2014 onwards).
British Psychoanalytic Council, Search Event, April 2012. Invited consultant.
Peer reviewer for journals including Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Feminist Review, Journal for Gender Studies, Celebrity Studies, and Historical Materialism.
Book proposal reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan; Wallflower Press; Intellect.
Book Manuscript Reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan; Wallflower Press; Routledge; Intellect.
Psychoanalytic approaches to media and culture
Gender and Visual Culture
Image and Identity
Critical Theory
Film and Film Theory
Feminist Criticism
Examining Experience
PhD Examination
(2004) External Examiner, PhD: 'In search of the maternal subject: Klein, feminism and women's popular magazine narratives', Monash University, Australia.
(2009) Internal Examiner, PhD: 'Experiences of medical intervention among intersex and transsexual people in the UK', Roehampton University.
(2009) External Examiner, PhD: 'Cultural meanings of eating, orality and appetite: From psychoanalysis to cyberspace', Kingston University.
(2013) External Examiner, PhD: 'A pilgrimage into the liminal: an experiential enquiry into an embodied space of grief and its representation in film', University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.
(2014) External Examiner, PhD: 'Affect, subjectivity and survival: The abducted girl in media and psychological discourse', Goldsmiths, University of London.
(2015) External Examiner, PhD: 'The art of healing: Psychoanalysis, culture and cure', University of Sussex.
(2016) External Examiner, PhD: 'Womb fantasies in international horror and extreme cinema', King's College, London.
(2016) External Examiner, PhD: 'Matriarchal cinema: The modern woman auteur and articulating desire', Lancaster University.
(2018) External Examiner, PhD: Sadder, darker, and alive: Self, suffering, and psychoanalysis in cinema', University of Auckland, New Zealand.
(2019) External Examiner, PhD: The British trauma film: Psychoanalysis and popular British cinema in the aftermath of the Second World War', Queen Mary, London.
(2019) External Examiner, PhD: 'Loss, melancholia, and neoliberalism in Real Life women's magazines 1985-2018', University of Aberdeen.
Taught Programme Examination
(2016 - to date) External Examiner, MA Psychoanalytic Studies and MA Management and Organisational Dynamics, University of Essex.
(2016 - to date) External Examiner, MA Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society, Brunel University.
(2009-2013) External Examiner, BA (Hons) Culture, Media and Society, Napier University, Edinburgh.
(2005-2008) External Examiner, MA Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
(2003-4) External Examiner, MA Media and Culture, University of Surrey, Roehampton.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Bainbridge, C. (Recipient), 9 Nov 2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Bainbridge, C. (Recipient), 12 Mar 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Bainbridge, C. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial Activity
Bainbridge, C. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic conference
Bainbridge, C. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Bainbridge, C. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial Activity
Bainbridge, C. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audience › Invited talk for an academic audience
8/12/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media