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Dr Mark Duffett, University of Chester (UK)

Dr Mark Duffett is a Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester (UK). His research interests focus on popular music culture, media fandom, and Elvis Presley. Dr Duffett is best known for his monographs Understanding Fandom (Bloomsbury, 2013), Counting Down Elvis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Elvis (Equinox, 2019). He has also edited several books and journal special issues for publishers such as Routledge and Bloomsbury, plus written many book chapters and articles for journals including Popular Music, Convergence, Popular Music History, Volume!, Popular Music and Society, and The Journal of Popular Music Studies. Dr Duffett’s comments have been quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. He has been an invited or keynote speaker to conference events held in various cities in Russia, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, England and Wales. He has also organized or co-organized conference events in his own country, France and the USA. In 2015, Dr Duffett’s writing was translated into Portugese for the Brazilian journal Revista Parágrafo where it appeared alongside pieces by Daniel Miller and Bruno Latour. He has just finished a co-written book with Dr Jon Hackett on monstrosity, masculinity and popular music called Scary Monsters (Bloomsbury, 2021) and is editing a new volume called Rethinking Elvis for Oxford University Press.

http://www.markduffett.com