Dean Lockwood, BA (Hons) (Humberside); MA (York); D. Phil (York).

Position:
Senior Lecturer in Media Theory

Teaching:
Dean teaches in media theory on the undergraduate degree in Media Production. He co-ordinates option units at level 2 (‘TV & Entertainment Culture’) and level 3 (‘Society, Aesthetics & Digital Media’ and ‘Horror & Fantasy’). He is also a member of the subject team for the Faculty’s Masters degree in Media & Cultural Studies, on which he teaches in the areas of visual and digital culture.

Research:
Dean’s postgraduate studies at the University of York were in the area of cultural theory and the sociology of contemporary culture and he was awarded his PhD in 1997. He has contributed papers to a number of conferences in recent years, including the joint annual conference of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) and the Association of Media Practice Educators (AMPE) here in Lincoln in January 2005, for which he was the Chair of the Lincoln Media Conference Committee. He has recently published on the 'spectacle of the real' and is currently researching various kinds of sublime and deconstructive monstrosity in the fields of digital culture and gothic horror.

Key Publications:

‘Teratology of the Spectacle’ in King, G. (ed.) The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond, ( Intellect, 2005).

‘Presence-Play: The Hauntology of the Computer Game’ (with Tony Richards) in Jahn-Sudmann, A. and Stockmann, R. (eds.) Games Without Frontiers – War Without Tears: Computer Games as a Social Cultural Phenomenon, (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2007).