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Personal profile

Current research activities

I'm currently working on a number of research projects focused on the analysis of pop-culture texts:

Building Better Worlds: The Alien Universe & Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility
Liminal Space & Claustrophobia in the works of John Carpenter.
World Wrestling Entertainment and the Paratextual Universe

As well as, teaching learning and assessment in higher education:

Cyclical Rubric Co-creation in the Dialogic Learning & Assessment Environment

Desired research direction

My future research activities will focus on:

The construction of Scottish identity in Sports Entertainment
Developing rubrics for sustainable assessment practices

Target collaborative organisations

The Professional Wrestling Studies Association (PWSA)

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA)

Area of academic expertise - outline

Professional Wrestling (Sports Entertainment)
Screenwriting
Textual Analysis
Paratextuality
Assessment in Higher Education

Keywords

PN1993 Motion Pictures
Screenwriting
Semiotics
Narratology
PN1990 Broadcasting
Paratext
Convergence
LB2300 Higher Education
Rubrics
Assessment
sustainablity,
PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Playwriting
Performance

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Research Output 2009 2018

7 Paper
1 Chapter
1 Article
1 Digital or Visual Products
1 More
- 1 Web publication/site

Analysing discourse in sports entertainment through multiple modalities

Quinn, J. & Silveira, C. 2 Apr 2018 In : The Popular Culture Studies Journal. 6, 1, p. 189-203 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

entertainment

Sports

discourse analysis

discourse

broadcast

Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling

Quinn, J. 8 Oct 2018 (Accepted/In press) Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle. Reinhard , C. D. & Olson, C. J. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Consumer products

Sports

entertainment

Stars

Marketing