Mica Nava

Mica Nava is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Her publications include Gender and Generation (1984); Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism (1992); Modern Times: A Century of English Modernity (1996); Buy This Book (1997) and Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender Culture and the Normalisation of Difference  (2007). Since the 1980s her work has been widely cited and reprinted and has contributed to the expansion of cultural studies in UK and abroad. She has been invited to give keynote conference papers and/or special lectures on her research in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Holland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States as well as at universities and other venues throughout Britain. She was founding director of the UEL Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR) and in 2008 was a member of RAE2008 Sub-Panel 66 Communications, Cultural and Media Studies. In 2013 she spent a semester as Visiting Professor at the University of the Applied Arts in Vienna and in January 2014, gave a TEDxEastEnd talk ‘London 2014: Multicultural, Diverse, Cosmopolitan or Mongrel?’ http://new.livestream.com/tedx/tedxeastend/videos/39942234. Her recent publications include American Anthropologist Ruth Landes and Race Relations Research in Postwar Britain, London: University of East London (2013) and ‘Sometimes Antagonistic, Sometimes Ardently Sympathetic: Contradictory Responses to Migrants in Postwar Britain’ in Ethnicities Vol 14 No 3 (2014). She is currently working on a memoir and a film script about race relations in 1950s London.

Contact:
m.nava@uel.ac.uk
micanava@gmail.com
Address: University of East London
London E16 2RD