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Title: Dr. Job Title: Cesagen Research Fellow Tel: 029 2087 5386 Fax: Email: HaranJ@cardiff.ac.uk Building: 6 Museum Place Room Number: 2.05
Joan Haran has a BA in Literature and History from North Staffordshire Polytechnic, an MA in Gender, Society and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Sociology from Warwick University .
Joan was Research Associate on the recently completed (April 2004 – March 2007) flagship project on Media Culture and Genomics which drew together media, cultural, and feminist technoscience studies preoccupations and methodologies to document the symbolic and material labour of making genomics in the media.
A monograph – Human Cloning in the Media: From science fiction to science practice – authored jointly with the other members of the project team, was published by Routledge in October 2007. The book focuses on the mediation of human cloning as an exemplary case study in the media construction of genomic science. Since completion of the project, Joan has continued to monitor the mediation of cloning and embryonic stem cell science, and is currently particularly interested in media relations conducted by scientists and policymakers with regard to the governance of embryological research.
Joan’s key research interests revolve around gender, representation and technoscience. A significant strand of her personal research focuses on feminist science fiction and the communities which produce and are produced by that genre.
(2004) 'Theorizing (hetero)sexuality and (fe)male dominance', Extrapolation 45(1): 89-102.
(2006) 'Simians, Cyborgs and Women in "Rachel in Love"', in J. Larbalestier (ed) Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press.
(2006) (with K. O’Riordan) 'Women, Feminism and Human Cloning: Recirculating Concerns and Critiques', Feminist Media Studies 6(2): 217-222.
(2007) 'Managing the Boundaries Between Maverick Cloners and Mainstream Scientists: The Life Cycle of a News Event in a Contested Field', New Genetics and Society 26(2).
(2007) (with Kitzinger, J, McNeil, M and O’Riordan, K.) Human Cloning in the Media: From Science Fiction to Science Practice, London : Routledge
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