Donna Peberdy, Associate Professor

Dr Donna Peberdy (she/her) is Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender at Solent University Southampton, UK and is University Research Lead for Media, Culture and the Arts. Her publications include Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion (I.B. Tauris 2017). She is co-director of Screening Sex (screeningsex.com), co-series editor of Edinburgh University Press’s Screening Sex book series and is currently editing a two-volume collection on The Sex Scene (forthcoming 2025). Donna is the recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project ‘Screening Sexual Violence’, which examines film and television representations in the #MeToo era. More information about the Screening Sexual Violence project can be found on the research project webpage: https://screeningsex.com/screening-sexual-violence/

Sex in contemporary film, television and culture; gender and masculinity; identity politics and representation; acting and performance, stardom and celebrity; contemporary and classical Hollywood; film noir, dystopian and utopian fiction. Donna’s current research concerns representations of sexual violence in contemporary film, television and culture.