Donna Peberdy (she/her) is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, Screen and Culture at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is University Research Lead, overseeing the REF29 submission for the Media, Culture and the Arts/Panel D area. She was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2022 and a National Teaching Fellowship in 2020.

Her publications include Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion (I.B. Tauris 2017) and the two volume collections The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry and The Sex Scene: Representation, Performance, Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press 2026). She is co-director of Screening Sex (screeningsex.com) and co-series editor of Edinburgh University Press’s Screening Sex book series.

Donna was awarded 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://screeningsexualviolence.com

Sex, sexuality and gender in contemporary film, television and culture; sexual violence; violence against women and girls; gender-based violence; screen representation; short film.