Margaret Gibson

Research expertise includes: death, mourning and material culture; representations of death in film and media; social media and changing rituals of mourning and remembrance; cosmetic surgery and melancholia. Select publications Objects of Dead: mourning and memory in Everyday Life, 2008, Melbourne University Publishing; Melancholy Objects (Mortality 2004, ), Bodies Without Histories: cosmetic surgery and the undoing of time (Australian Feminist Studies (2006).