Dr Hannah McCann is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research in critical femininity studies explores feminist discourse on femininity, queer femme LGBTQ+ communities, beauty culture, and queer fangirls. She has published in various journals including European Journal of Women’s Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her monograph Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation was published with Routledge in 2018, and her co-authored textbook Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures with Red Globe Press in 2020.
Experience
2020–present
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
2019–2020
Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
2016–2018
Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Melbourne
2016–2016
Lecturer in Gender Studies, Australian National University
Education
2015
Australian National University, PhD in Sociology
2010
ACT Government (Graduate Program), Diploma of Government
2009
Australian National University, BA (Political Science, Philosophy (Honours)) /BSc (Psychology)
Publications
2019
‘In this house we believe in fairness and kindness’: Post-liberation politics in Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey, Sexualities
2018
Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation, Routledge
2018
Beyond the visible: Rethinking femininity through the femme assemblage, European Journal of Women's Studies
2016
Epistemology of the subject: Queer theory's challenge to feminist sociology, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarter
2015
Pantomime Dames Queer Femininity Versus ‘Natural Beauty’ in Snog, Marry, Avoid, Australian Feminist Studies
Professional Memberships
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA)