Post:	Reader in Media Studies
Location:	Silverstone 320
Email:	B.Highmore@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	2968
UK:	(01273) 872968
International:	+44 1273 872968

Biography

BA (Sheffield Hallam), MA (Leeds), PhD (London)

Research

My research is broadly concerned with the culture of daily life. I am particularly interested in the methodological (and theoretical) challenges and opportunities that such an orientation affords. My research at the moment is directed at three different projects. I am writing a book called 'Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday' which is an attempt to produce a social aesthetics of everyday life, with special attention to the experience of habit, routine, work, domestic care, eating, and everyday media. The second project is a book called 'The Great Indoors: An Intimate History of the British House', which is a non-academic book for the publishers Profile Books. Third is a project that I have been working on for a number of years: an account of 'New Brutalism' in British art in the 1950s.

My research is concerned with the history and theory of everyday experience and, within this, forms of life writing are an essential ingredient. My current research is focused on domestic habits and routines, changes in work culture, and the aesthetics of daily experience.

Teaching

I teach courses on the politics of media representations, on cultural history and experience, and on everyday life.

Publications

Books

2010 The Great Indoors, London: Profile (ISBN: 978-1846681837 hbk), available Autumn 2010.

2010 Ordinary Lives: Studies in Everyday Life, Oxford and New York: Routledge (ISBN: 978-0415461870 pbk), available Summer 2010.

2009 A Passion for Cultural Studies, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 978-1-4039-9718-0 pbk), pp. 151.

2008 The Design Culture Reader, Oxford and New York: Routledge (ISBN: 0415403553 hbk and 0415403561 pbk), pp. 375.

2006 Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture, London and New York: Continuum (ISBN: 826460720 hbk and 0826460739 pbk), pp. 200.

2005 Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 0333929349 hbk and 0333929357 pbk), pp. 190.

2002 Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction, London and New York: Routledge, 2002 (ISBN: 415223024 hbk and 415223032 pbk), pp. 200.

2002 The Everyday Life Reader, London and New York: Routledge, (ISBN: 415230241 hbk and 041523025X pbk), pp. 373.

Recent Journal Articles

2009 'The Taj Mahal in the High Street: The Indian Restaurant as Diasporic Popular Culture in Britain', Food, Culture and Society (Print ISSN 1552-8014, Online ISSN: 1751-7443) 12, 2, pp. 173-190.

2008 'Alimentary Agents: Food, Cultural Theory, and Multiculturalism', Journal of Intercultural Studies (Print ISSN: 0725-6868, Online ISSN: 1469-9540) 29, 4, pp. 381-398.

2007 'Richard Hamilton at the Ideal Home Exhibition of 1958: Gallery for a Collector of Brutalist and Tachiste Art', Art History (ISSN 0141-6790) 30, 5, pp. 712-737.

2007 'Walls Without Museums: Anonymous History, Collective Authorship, and the Document', Visual Culture in Britain (ISSN: 1471 4787) 8, 2, pp.1-20.

2007 'An Epistemological Awakening: Michel de Certeau and the Writing of Culture', Social Anthropology/Anthroplogie Sociale (ISSN: 0964-0282) 15, 1, pp. 13-26.

2006 'Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science', in Modernism and the Everyday special issue of Modernist Cultures, 2, 1, Summer, pp. 70-79 – access at http://www.js-modcult.bham.ac.uk/currentissue.asp

2006 'Rough Poetry: Patio and Pavilion Revisited', in Oxford Art Journal (ISSN: 0142-6540), 29, 2, spring, pp. 269-290.

2004 'Homework: Routine, Social Aesthetics, and the Ambiguity of Everyday Life', in Cultural Studies (ISSN: 0950-2386 print, ISSN: 1466-4348 online) 18, 2-3, pp. 306-327.

2004 'Machinic Magic: IBM at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair', in new formations (ISBN: 0-85315-990-4) 51, pp. 128-148.

Recent Chapters in Book

2007 'Compiti a casa: Routine, estetica sociale e ambiguità della vita quotidiana', in Tra ordinario e straordinario. Modernità e vita quotidiana, edited by Paola Di Cori and Clotilde Pontecorvo, Rome: Carocci editore (ISBN: 978-88-430-4012-4), pp. 68-86.

2007 'Home Furnishings: Richard Hamilton, Domesticity and "Post-Avant-Gardism"', in Neo-Avant Garde, ed David Hopkins, Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, (ISBN: 904202125X), pp. 243-262.

2007 'Michel de Certeau and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies', in Culture and the Unconscious, edited by Caroline Bainbridge, Susannah Radstone, Michael Rustin, and Candida Yates, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, (ISBN: 1403986223) pp. 88-101.