Dr Claire Charles

Dr. Claire Charles is a lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. Her Research explores intersections of popular culture, education, and identity with particular reference to young women, and young femininities. She has published articles in various international journals, arising out of research projects on gender, learning and new media, as well as her doctoral project, which examined how young women within the environment of elite, private girls' secondary schooling were developing their classed identities at the intersection of powerful representations and discourses within both popular culture and schooling about being a 'girl' in contemporary western culture.