Degrees Held
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Surrey University)
- PhD Cultural Research (Lancaster University)
- Master of Arts in Contemporary Literary Studies (Lancaster University)
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours) English (Lancaster University)
Research Interests
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Theory
- Mobilities
Teaching Interests
- Cultural Studies
- Film & Television
- Cultural Heritage
- Social Media
- Mobile Communication
Selected
Publications
Books
Chapters in Books
Journal Articles
Books
- Germann Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (Eds.) (2007) Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Chapters in Books
- Gibson, S. Dyll, L., and Teer-Tomaselli, R. (2020) ‘Entertaining the Nation: Incentivising Indigenous Soap Opera in South Africa’, in Sigismondi, P. (Ed.) World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp.142-152.
- Gibson, S. (2019) ‘Railing against Apartheid: Staffrider, Township Trains, and Racialized Mobility in South Africa’, in Aguiar, M., Mathieson, C., and Pearce, L. (Eds.) Mobilities, Literature, Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.35-63.
- Gibson, S. (2007) ‘“Abusing Our Hospitality”: Inhospitableness and the Politics of Deterrence’ in Germann Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (Eds.) Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 159-174.
- Germann Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (2007) ‘Introduction: Mobilizing and Mooring Hospitality’ in Germann Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (Eds.) Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 1-25.
Journal Articles
- Gibson, S. (2018) ‘The landscapes and aesthetics of soap opera: Townships, television and tourism’, Journal of African Cinemas, 10(1-2) 95–110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac.10.1-2.95_1
- Gibson, S. (2018) ‘Book Review: Migration, Ethics, Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics, by Dan Bulley, London, Sage, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4739-8503-2 (PBK)’, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography 19(1) 148-149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1352218
- Gibson, S. (2013) ‘Testimony in a Culture of Disbelief: Asylum Hearings and the Impossibility of Bearing Witness’, Journal for Cultural Research 17(1) 1-20 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2011.613221
- Gibson, S. (2009) ‘“The Curry Mile”: Placing Taste, Tasting Place in Manchester’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 9(2) 64-79
- Gibson, S. (2007) ‘Food Mobilities: Traveling, Dwelling, and Eating Cultures’, Space and Culture 10(1) 4-21 https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331206296756
- Gibson, S. (2006) ‘“The Hotel Business is about Strangers”: Border Politics and Hospitable Spaces in Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things’, Third Text 20(6) 693-701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528820601069631
- Gibson, S. (2006) ‘A Seat with a View: Tourism, (Im)Mobility, and the Cinematic-Travel Glance’, Tourist Studies 6(2) 157-178 https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797606071475
- Gibson, S. (2004) ‘English Journeys: the tourist, the guidebook, and the motorcar in The Remains of the Day’, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 5(2) 43-71 http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jys.2004.050203
- Gibson, S. (2003) ‘Accommodating Strangers: British Hospitality and the Asylum Hotel Debate’, Journal for Cultural Research 7(4) 367-386 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1479758032000165039
Student
Supervision
Honours
Masters
PhD
Honours
- Supervision of Projects on Representing and Consuming the Local: Exploring the Production and Reception of
- Supervision of Projects on Culture and Heritage: Representations of the Past
- Supervision of Projects on Social Media and Participatory Cultures
Masters
- Ajimakin Ifedayo (graduated 2019) Facebook and Students: the motivation for use and its effects on undergraduate students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- Tselane Mofekang (graduated 2018) Representing the Empowered Black Woman: A Semiotic Analysis of True Love and Destiny Magazines.
- Poloko Mokohenhatse (graduated 2018) Social Media Activism: An Analysis of the #RhodesMustFall campaign on Twitter.
- Janet Onuh (co-supervisor, graduated 2018) The Representation of ‘The Matriarch’ in South African Telenovelas: A Case Study of
PhD
- Brenda Bukowa (graduated 2020) Networked Participatory cultures in Lusaka, Zambia: How Teenagers experience social media and mobile phones
- Damien Tomaselli (graduated 2020) Cosmology of the Relativistic Multi-Modal Chronotope: Materialising Spacetime Flesh to the Veins of Film (The Crow), Gaming (The Last of Us), Virtual Reality (Batman PS4) and Motion Books (Mono & Labyrinth of Lacuna)
Teaching Expertise
- Cultural Studies
- Film & Television
- Social Media and Participatory Cultures
- Mobilities
