Milly Williamson

Milly Williamson is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of horror, celebrity culture, gender, racism and the media, television studies and fan culture. Milly has a BA from the University of the West of England and a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of a book on the vampire cinema, has published widely on horror and is editing a collection on images of the undead with Leon Hunt. The main focus of her current work is the study of stardom and celebrity and she is at present completing a book on this topic. She has also been conducting research into the media representation of Islam and British Muslims and has published a number of articles on this topic. 

Research Overview

Publications

Journal Papers

(2010) Williamson, M., Female celebrities and the media: the gendered denigration of the 'ordinary' celebrity, Celebrity Studies 1 (1) : 118- 120

(2008) Khiabany, G. and Williamson, M., Veiled bodies - naked racism: culture, politics and race in the Sun, Race and Class 50 (2) : 69- 88

(2005) Williamson, M., Spike, sex and subtext: Intertextual portrayals of the sympathetic vampire on cult television, European Journal of Cultural Studies 8 (3) : 289- 311

(2005) Williamson, M. and Amy-Chinn, D., The vampire Spike in text and fandom: Unsettling oppositions in Buffy the vampire slayer, European Journal of Cultural Studies 8 (3) : 275- 288

(Accepted) Williamson, M. and Khiabany, G., The veil and politics of racism, Race and Class: a journal of racism, empire and globalisation Forthcoming

Book Chapters

(2012) Williamson, M. and Khiabany, G., Terror, Culture and Anti-Muslim Racism. In: Thussu, D. and Freedman, D. eds. Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives. London : Sage