Jon Stratton

Jon is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Adelaide University He gained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has been in Australia since 1981. Jon has taught at universities in Brisbane,, Darwin and Perth.

Jon’s work centres around issues of identity cultural specificity. He has published widely from articles on soap opera to serial killing to cyberspace and books on postmodernity, the body and the role of race in Australian culture. At present much of Jon’s work centres on popular music and vernacular dancing. Jon is the founding editor of the book series 33 1/3 Oceania published by Bloomsbury.

Jon was Vice-President of the Australasian Cultural Studies Association between 2000 and 2004. He coedited the Transnational Cultural Studies series for University of Illinois Press between 1997 and 2000. In 1998 he held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the International Forum for United States’ Studies at the University of Iowa.

Jon is on the editorial boards of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Cultural Studies.