Professor Jo Littler

Staff details

Professor Jo Littler

Position

Professor

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

j.littler (@gold.ac.uk)

Jo's work analyses changing cultures of inequality in society in relation to gender, ‘race’ and class.

Jo’s work analyses changing cultures of inequality across media and society. Her books include Left Feminisms (2023); with The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto (2020); Against Meritocracy (2018); Radical Consumption (2008); and, with Roshi Naidoo, The Politics of Heritage (2005). She co-edits European Journal of Cultural Studies and is part of the editorial collective for Soundings: A Journal of Politics & Culture.

She is a regular invited speaker at public events. Besides academic conferences, these have included talks for the Equality Trust, an APPG group on social mobility in parliament, the Canadian Worldviews union lecture, the Barbican and the Young Vic. Her work has featured on ABC Radio Australia, US National Public Radio, The Guardian, Il Manifesto and El Pais. She is a Trustee for the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust and a judge of the 2023 Stuart Hall Essay Prize.

In 2023-4 she is working on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on 'Ideologies of Inequality'.

Grants and awards

2024: Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Ideologies of Inequality

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Curran-Troop, Hannah; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2022. “Stay Woke. Make Moves” Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity. In: Joel Gwynne, ed. The Cultural Politics of Femvertising: Selling Empowerment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-162.

Ehrstein, Yvonne; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2019. The Affective Life of Neoliberalism: Constructing (Un)Reasonableness on Mumsnet. In: Simon Dawes and Marc Lenormand, eds. Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-213. ISBN 9783030260163

Sandoval, Marisol and Littler, Jo. 2019. Creative hubs: a co-operative space? In: Rosalind Gill; Andy C. Pratt and Tarek E. Virani, eds. Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-168. ISBN 9783030106522

Article

Littler, Jo. 2024. The university: caring community or carewashing central? Autosociobiographical reflections. Educational Philosophy and Theory, ISSN 0013-1857

Littler, Jo. 2024. The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(3), pp. 498-508. ISSN 1367-5494

Curran-Troop, Hannah; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2024. What is ‘freelance feminism’? European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(3), pp. 317-332. ISSN 1367-5494

Conference or Workshop Item

Williamson, Milly and Littler, Jo. 2018. '‘Rich TV/Poor TV’: Work, leisure and the construction of ‘deserved inequality’'. In: 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Voices. Prague, Czech Republic 24 - 28 May 2018.