Professor Ann Brooks - orcid.org/0000-0002-4610-2091
Visiting Research Fellow, March 2022-July 2023
Ann Brooks is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Ann has held senior academic positions in Australia, Singapore, the UK and New Zealand, including Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies and Head of School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide (2008-2011), Professor of Sociology and Head of Research and Professional Practice at Bournemouth University (2015-2017) and Head of Sociology and Psychology at Singapore Institute of Management University (2003-2008). She has also held fellowship and visiting scholar positions at the Australian Catholic University, Institute of Religion, Politics and Society in Sydney (from 2018), National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute (2013-14), and the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology (2011-2012). Ann has been an Associate and International Investigator with the Australia Research Council (ARC) funded ($24 million AUD) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions for the duration of the grant 2011-2019 in Australia. Ann has authored 14 books/monographs including Academic Women (Open University Press, 1997); Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 1997); Gender and the Restructured University (Open University Press, 2001); Gendered Work in Asian Cities: the New Economy and Changing Labour Markets (Ashgate, 2006); Social Theory in Contemporary Asia (Routledge, 2010); Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets: Asian and Western Perspectives (Routledge, 2011 and 2013) (with Theresa Devasayaham); Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave, 2014)(with Ruth Simpson); Popular Culture, Global Intercultural Perspectives (Palgrave, 2014); Consumption, Rights and States: Comparing Singapore with Cities in Asia and the West (Anthem, 2014) (with Lionel Wee); Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Routledge 2014 and 2016) (co-edited with David Lemmings); Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity (Routledge New York, 2017); Women, Politics and the Public Sphere (Bristol University Press/ Policy Press, 2019) and Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society: Love in an International Context (Routledge 2019/20). Ann’s latest publication is an edited collection The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love (forthcoming 2021) and in addition a further forthcoming monograph with Bristol University Press (forthcoming 2022) The Sociology of Emotions: Feminist, Cultural and Sociological Perspectives.
Project Title: Discourses in Critical Love Studies: Routledge Companion to Romantic Love
The Research Fellowship focuses on the compilation of a new international interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary volume of original chapters on critical love studies. The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is contracted with Routledge, edited by Ann Brooks and is a landmark international collection consisting of over 30 chapters which draw on socio-historical and socio-cultural research.
The volume which is in progress reflects a range of perspectives from history, literature, popular romance studies, gender studies, sociology, American studies and cultural studies focusing on critical love studies discourses. Critical love studies is not a single discourse but is better described as a genre which is inherently interdisciplinary drawing on research and scholars from literary studies; film, television and media studies; communication and the social sciences; critical race, feminist and queer studies. It encompasses theoretical and empirical approaches. In drawing together academics from different disciplinary backgrounds as contributors to critical love studies discourses for the Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, I will be seeking a range of perspectives and methodologies across different cultural contexts.
The collection in the form of the ‘Companion’ provides access to international original and critical research in the field and provides a valuable research and teaching resource on the emotions, love and intimacy. Drawing on research from academics from the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the UK, the Companion gives a comprehensive understanding of theoretical and empirical research globally.