Digital Feminisms

Christina Scharff is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK. She has a research interest in gender, media, and culture, and is the author of Repudiating Feminism: Young women in a neoliberal world (2012) and New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity (with Rosalind Gill, 2011). Her second monograph, Music, Gender and Entrepreneurialism is forthcoming with Routledge.

Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has research interests in digital feminisms, performance art activism, affective publics, and the body. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (2013), and Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism (with Maria Stehle, 2016).

Maria Stehle is Associate Professor of German and core faculty in Cinema Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA. She has published multiple articles and book chapters in the fields of German, gender, and media studies and is the author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture (2012) and of Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism (with Carrie Smith-Prei, 2016).