Dr. Simidele Dosekun

Biography

Simidele Dosekun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She serves as the Programme Director for the MSc Global Media Communications (LSE Fudan) and MSc Global Media Communications (LSE UCT). Simidele's research focuses on African women, probing questions of gender, race, subjectivity, and power in a global context. She is the author of the book 'Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity in Transnational Culture' and co-editor of 'African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics'. Her work has been published in reputable journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Feminism & Psychology, and Qualitative Inquiry. Before joining LSE, she was a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She obtained her PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from King’s College London. Simidele's expertise includes Gender and Media, Race and Ethnicity, African Consumer and Popular Cultures, Representation, Globalisation, Feminist Theory, Qualitative Research Methodologies, and Knowledge Politics. Her book focuses on young, class-privileged Nigerian women and their hyperbolically feminine styles, arguing for a new conceptual and methodological understanding of postfeminism within a performative, transnationally mobile culture.

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