Dr. Linda Wight
Associate Professor, Humanities
Campus
Biography
Dr Linda Wight’s research expertise includes science fiction and fantasy literature and film, and is informed by gender studies, masculinities studies, feminist and queer theory. Linda’s current research continues to look at the way masculinities are portrayed and constructed in science fiction and other popular genres.
Linda has published her research in international, peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Her publications include analyses of men and masculinities in the Indiana Jones films, the James Bond films starring Daniel Craig, and science fiction films starring Tom Cruise. Linda has also published on works by significant science fiction authors including Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy and Lois McMaster Bujold.
Linda is Senior Lecturer in literature and screen studies at Federation University Australia (formerly University of Ballarat), which she joined in 2011. She obtained her PhD, which examined the depiction of men and masculinities in recent science fiction, from James Cook University in 2010.
Fields of research
- Popular and genre literature
- Media studies
- Cinema studies