Sharif Mowlabocus

Sharif mowlabocus

Chair, Professor

Contact
[email protected]
212-636-7023

Location
Martino Hall, Room 703 and Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 431

Social Media
Twitter: @creativemess

  • MA 1999 (English Literature)

    PhD 2006 (Media & Cultural Studies) - University of Sussex, UK

  • My research has historically been located located at the intersection of sexuality studies and media studies. My first book, Gaydar Culture, (Ashgate, 2010) was one of the first substantive analyses of how sexual minorities use digital media resources to negotiate issue of sexual identity, community, practice and health. My second book, Interrogating Homonormativity (Palgrave, 2021), explores the mainstreaming of LGBTQ politics and culture in the ‘post-equalities’ landscape. I am also the co-editor of Queer Sites in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2020)
    I have also published journal articles and book chapters dedicated to the following themes, as they relate to (digital) media: identity, platform economics, pornography, sexualized drug use, sexual heath promotion, surveillance, boredom, consumption (to name a few). 
    Most recently, I have begun a collaborative research project with Fordham Law School and local public defender agencies, investigating the production, reception and effects of sentence mitigation videos. 
    I have been a member of the expert panel for the Actor Behavior Policy Team at Facebook/Meta and has held visiting scholar positions at Microsoft Research New England, and Stanford University.
    I am also involved with the International Communication Association, having served for four years as the co-chair of the LGBTQ Studies Division. 
  • Mowlabocus, S (2021) Interrogating Homonormativity. Palgrave Press
    Ramos, R & Mowlabocus, S (eds.) (2020) Queer Sites in Global Contexts: Technologies, Spaces, and Otherness. London, Routledge. 
    Mowlabocus, S (2010) Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age. Farnham, Routledge
    Mowlabocus, S (under review) ‘Gay for Pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ Employees in the Transnational Corporate Landscape’ in Communication, Culture & Critique. 
    Mowlabocus, S (under review) ‘Solitary Vices: Boredom, Masturbation, Modernity’ in International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
    Mowlabocus, S (2023) ‘Un Grindr plus gentil? La modération du racisme dans les espaces technologiques d’expression du désir’ in Genre, Sexualité & Société. 29, Printemps 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/gss/8245
    Mowlabocus, S (2021) ‘Fucking with Homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex’ in Sexualities, https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460721999267
    Mowlabocus, S (2020) ‘Mediating PrEP – Introduction to Special Section’ in Sexualities. DOI: 10.1177/1363460719886553

    Mowlabocus, S (2019) ‘“What a Skewed Sense of Values”: Discussing PreP in the British Public Sphere’ in Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719872726

    Mowlabocus, S (2019) ‘‘No politics … We’re a Mardi Gras now’: Telling the story of the LGSM in 21st century Britain.’ In Grant, C. & Kelliher, D. (eds.) Pride Revisited – Open Library of Humanities Journal. 5 (1):63. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.323

    Mowlabocus, S (2018) ‘“Let’s get this thing open”: Unboxing videos as cultural practice’ in European Journal of Cultural Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549418810098

    Mowlabocus, S. & Medhurst, A. (2017) ‘Six propositions on the sonics of pornography’ in Porn Studies http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2017.1304236

    Mowlabocus, S. (2016) ‘The mastery of the swipe: smartphones, transitional objects and interstitial time’ in First Monday. 21 (10) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i10.6950

    Mowlabocus, S., Haslop, C. & Dasgupta, R. (2016) ‘From scene to screen: the challenges and opportunities of commercial digital platforms for HIV community outreach programmes – a case study’ in Social Media & Society.
    DOI: 10.1177/2056305116672886

  • WGSS 3001: Queer Theories
    COMC 1101: Communication & Culture: History, Theory & Methods
    COMC 3232: Class, Taste and  Mass Culture
    DTEM 4480: Digital Media and Public Responsibility
    DTEM 3447: Race, Gender and Digital Media
    DTEM 1401: Introduction to Digital Technology & Emerging Media
    DTEM 1402: Digital Cultures