Dr Jessica Ford

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2025 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer in Media	University of Adelaide
  2023 - 2024	Lecturer in Media	The University of Adelaide
  2021 - 2023	Education Focused Academic in Screen and Cultural Studies	University of Newcastle Australia
  2019 - 2021	Lecturer (Teaching Only) in Film, Media and Cultural Studies	University of Newcastle Australia
  2017 - 2018	Sessional Academic	University of Newcastle Australia
  2015 - 2015	Postgraduate Teaching Fellow	UNSW Australia
  2012 - 2018	Sessional Academic	UNSW Australia

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2012 - 2017	UNSW Australia	Australia	PhD
  2006 - 2010	The University of Newcastle	Australia	Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  2022	Fellow	Advance HE	United Kingdom

• Research Interests

  Communication & Media Studies Culture, Gender, Sexuality Feminist and queer theory Film and Television Screen and Media Culture

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Ford, J. (2025). Managing expression and hand holding in The Good Wife: how 'leaning in' demands emotional labour. Feminist Theory, 26(2), 410-425. DOI
  2024	Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘I work hard and I’m nice to people’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. Continuum, 38(6), 1-13. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
  2024	Ford, J. (2024). Televisual authorship and the affective feminism of HBO’s Sharp Objects adaptation. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 22(1), 277-295. DOI
  2023	Perkins, C., Brooks, J., Loreck, J., Tan, P., Ford, J., & Sheehan, R. J. (2023). Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks. Australian Feminist Studies, 38(117), 231-247. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2022	Macrossan, P., & Ford, J. (2022). Duets and the Demands of Country Music: Contradictory Feminisms in Nashville. The Journal of Popular Culture, 55(2), 350-372. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2021	Ford, J., & Boyle, A. (2021). The Emotional Detective: Gender, violence and the post-forensic TV crime drama. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 7(Summer 21).
  2020	Ford, J., Ison, J., McKenzie, L., Cannizzo, F., Mayhew, L. R., Osborne, N., & Cooke, B. (2020). What ongoing staff can do to support precariously employed colleagues. AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES REVIEW, 62(1), 57-62. WoS3
  2019	Ford, J. (2019). Women’s indie television: the intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies. Feminist Media Studies, 19(7), 928-943. DOI Scopus12 WoS10
  2019	Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2019). The musical number as feminist intervention in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 8(1), 55-69. DOI Scopus6
  2019	Ford, J. (2019). BOOK REVIEW: The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century, Kevin McDonald and Daniel Smith-Rowsey (eds) (2016). Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 10(1), 127-129. DOI
  2018	Ford, J. (2018). Feminist cinematic television: Authorship, aesthetics and gender in Pamela Adlon’s Better Things. Fusion Journal, 14, 16.
  2016	Ford, J. (2016). The “smart” body politics of Lena Dunham’s Girls. Feminist Media Studies, 16(6), 1029-1042. DOI Scopus19 WoS12
  -	Ford, J. (2018). Rebooting Roseanne: Feminist Voice across Decades. M/C Journal, 21(5). DOI

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2025	Ford, J. (2025). Teaching challenging material. In Moving Your University Course Online (pp. 110-121). Routledge. DOI
  2024	Ford, J., & Herb, A. (2024). The Quiet Violence of Denying Queerness in the Novel and Film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post. In J. E. Bennett, & M. Johnson (Eds.), Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction Stories of Repentance and Defiance. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  2022	Ford, J. (2022). Orange is the New Black, Wentworth and contemporary media feminisms: Systemic inequality and individual responsibility. In R. O'Meara, T. Dwyer, S. Taylor, & C. Batty (Eds.), TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth (Vol. 4, pp. 193-209). Oxford: Peter Lang. DOI Scopus2
  2022	Ford, J., & Zeller-Jacques, M. (2022). You Can’t Go Home Again: The Recuperative Reboot and the Trump Era Sitcom. In K. McNally (Ed.), American Television During a Television Presidency (pp. 275-290). USA: Wayne State University Press.
  2022	Ford, J. (2022). Gender, Violence and Empowerment: Reworking the Female Action Hero in Dollhouse. In S. Gerrard, & R. Middlemost (Eds.), Gender and Action Films: Road Warriors, Bombshells and Atomic Blondes. (pp. 47-57). UK; North America; Japan; India; Malaysia; China: Emerald Publishing. DOI
  2021	Ford, J. (2021). Women’s indie television: the intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies. In C. Perkins, & M. Schreiber (Eds.), Independent Women: From Film to Television (pp. 10-25). London: Routledge. DOI
  2020	Ford, J. (2020). Popular Feminism and Television Stardom in Hallmark’s Original Made-for-Television Movies. In E. L. Newman, & E. Witsell (Eds.), The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism (pp. 32-49). North Carolina: McFarland.
  2020	Ford, J. (2020). Can prison be a feminist space?: Interrogating television representations of women’s prisons. In M. Harmes, M. Harmes, & B. Harmes (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture (pp. 613-626). Springer. DOI Scopus2
  2019	Ford, J. (2019). At the fringes of TV: Liminality and privilege in Netflix’s original scripted dramedy series. In T. Plothe, & A. Buck (Eds.), Netflix at the Nexus: Content, Practice, and Production in the Age of Streaming Television (pp. 97-112). Peter Lang US. DOI Scopus1
  2018	Ford, J. (2018). Negotiating creative feminine labor on family television: Are Jane By Design and Bunheads riding a new feminist wave?. In E. L. Newman, & E. Witsell (Eds.), ABC Family to Freeform TV Essays on the Millennial-Focused Network and Its Programs (pp. 48-98). McFarland.
  2014	Ford, J. (2014). Feminist and postfeminist discourses: Reading the Britta problem. In A. -G. Lee (Ed.), A Sense of Community Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom (pp. 82-97). McFarland.
  2012	Ford, J. (2012). Coming out of the broom closet: Willow’s sexuality and empowerment in Buffy. In M. A. Money (Ed.), Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More (pp. 93-102). National Geographic Books.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2024	Ford, J. (2024). Kevin Can F*** Himself: Trauma, affect and the absence of represented violence. In https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24. Gold Coast, Australia.
  2023	Ford, J. (2023). Affect, feminism and television: HBO’s Sharp Objects. In Gender, Sex and Sexuality Conference. UniSA.
  2023	Ford, J. (2023). Trauma, violence and the affective feminism of HBO’s Sharp Objects. In Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Denver, CO, United States.
  2019	Ford, J. (2019). Tele-feminist authorship in the age of popular feminisms. In Cine-feminisms and the Academy Symposium. UNSW Sydney, Australia.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2024	Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). 'I work hard and I’m nice to people': Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the Limits of White Neoliberal Feminism. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the Swiftposium 2024: An academic conference on Taylor Swift. University of Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2024	Ford, J. (2024). The myth of feminist perfection. The Institute of Art and Ideas News.
  2024	Rutherford, A., Altman, D., Harrington, E., Ford, J., Deller, M., & Hart, P. (2024). Black comedy, political drama and a documentary about a cult: what we’re streaming this February. The Conversation.
  2023	Harrington, E., Ford, J., Arrow, M., Richards, S., & Grant, Y. (2023). Wartime hijinks, wilderness survivors and contemporary dance: what we’re streaming this October. The Conversation.
  2023	Altman, D., Mattes, A., Harrington, E., Ford, J., McAlister, J., Arrow, M., & Richards, S. (2023). Romantic comedies, Japanese reality television and New Zealand true crime: the best of streaming this September. The Conversation.
  2023	Ford, J. (2023). More than mumblecore and bigger than Barbie – who is Greta Gerwig?. The Conversation.
  2023	Ford, J. (2023). Trying to fix TV’s past: Beyond the ‘woke’ reboot. CST Online.
  2020	Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2020). Friday Essay: Clueless at 25 – Like, a totally important teen film.
  2020	Ford, J. (2020). My best worst film: She’s The Man – Amanda Bynes shines in a hilarious commentary on gender. The Conversation.
  2019	Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2019). The Real Dirty Dancing reduces a political film to little more than coy dance numbers. The Conversation.

• MDIA 3336 The Digital Image (formerly Photography)
• MDIA 1002 Key Concepts in Media (from 2024)
• MDIA 1014OL Key Concepts in Media (from 2024)

Prior to joing the University of Adelaide, Jessica designed, developed and taught course on: 

• Communication and Culture
• Popular Culture and Society
• Social Media and Digital Culture
• Media Industries in Transition
• Media, Technology and Everyday Life
• Media, Society, Politics
• Music and Culture
• Peak TV: Texts, Industry, Culture
• Hollywood Cinema: Industry, Technology, Aesthetics 
• Introduction to Film Studies 
• Screening Sex and Gender
• Film, Media and Culture Capstone
• Honours: Theory & Practice in Screens, Languages, English & Writing

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2025	Co-Supervisor	Power Relations in Digital Food Culture: Examining Gender, Class and Race in Instagram Clean Eating Content	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Zhiqi Shao
  2024	Co-Supervisor	Online Feminist Activism in Iran: The Case of MeToo Movement	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Elmira Nouri
  2024	Co-Supervisor	The Revolution Will Be Televised: Audio-visual content in the era of streaming and “peak TV”. An investigation of industry change, content trends, and globalisation post the digital revolution	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Philippa Elizabeth Violet Dore
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Fact, Fiction, or Representation? An Exploration into the Portrayal of Historical Women in Historical Fiction.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Miss Tielah-Jade Cannon

• Other Supervision Activities

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021 - 2025	External Supervisor	Reframing Menstruation: Exploring menstruation, feminism and activism on screen	University of New England, Australia	PhD	Doctorate	Full Time	Bridgette Glover
  2018 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Hella Queer: The Representation of Female Same-Sex Sexuality in Contemporary Anglophone Graphic Narratives	The University of Newcastle, Australia	PhD (Cultural Studies)	Doctorate	Part Time	Matilda Hope-Kirchen

• Board Memberships

  Date	Role	Board name	Institution name	Country
  2025 - ongoing	Secretary	Executive Committee	Screen Studies Association of Australia Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ)	Australia

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2023 - ongoing	Member	Society for Cinema and Media Studies	United States
  2016 - ongoing	Member	Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand	Australia
  2012 - ongoing	Member	Australian Women and Gender Studies Association	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2023 - ongoing	Member	MAI: Feminism and Culture Imprint	Punctum Books	United States
  2018 - ongoing	Board Member	MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture	MAI Collective	Sweden

• Presentation

  Date	Topic	Presented at	Institution	Country
  2025 - 2025	Low-key Girls to spectacular Handmaids: Feminist aesthetics on US TV	Feminist Media Studies Group	Cardiff University, Wales	United Kingdom
  2025 - 2025	Contemporary Television’s Feminist Sensibility	School of Film, Art and Media	Bath Spa University	United Kingdom
  2025 - 2025	(Not) Televising Domestic Violence and Abuse: Affect and the absence of represented violence in Kevin Can F*** Himself	Cambridge School of Creative Industries	Anglia Ruskin University	United Kingdom
  2023 - 2023	American Feminist TV: From The Good Wife to The Handmaid’s Tale	Media Department	University of British Columbia	Canada
  2023 - 2023	Reproductive Rights on Screen	IU Cinema	Indiana University, Bloomington	United States
  2021 - 2021	Can Prison be a Feminist Space? Interrogating TV Representations of Women in Prison	DEMOSERIES Seminar Series on Security TV (ECR Advanced Grant)	University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France

• Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice

  Date	Title	Type	Institution	Country
  2024 - 2024	Israel Science Foundation	Grant Assessment	Israel Science Foundation	Israel
  2023 - ongoing	Palgrave Macmillan	Peer Review	Palgrave Macmillan	United States
  2022 - ongoing	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society	Peer Review	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society	United States
  2021 - ongoing	New Review of Film and Television Studies	Peer Review	New Review of Film and Television Studies	United States
  2021 - ongoing	Popular Communication	Peer Review	Popular Communication	United States
  2020 - ongoing	Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies	Peer Review	Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies	United Kingdom
  2020 - ongoing	Edinburgh University Press	Peer Review	Edinburgh University Press	United Kingdom
  2019 - ongoing	Feminist Media Studies	Peer Review	Feminist Media Studies	-

• Position: Senior Lecturer in Media
• Phone: 83134733
• Email: jessica.ford@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor Ninth Floor
• Room: 903
• Org Unit: Media