Dr Jodie Taylor is an educator, researcher, curriculum designer and consultant in higher education and maintains a professional reputation in the performing arts, community cultural development and LGBTIQ activism. Since resigning from the position of Chair of Scholarship and Research and Senior Lecturer in the Masters of Creative Industries at SAE University College in 2023, Jodie has taken up a research fellowship at Wintec and spent the year growing her education consultancy practice. Jodie holds a Bachelor of Music in music technology and a Bachelor of Music with Honuors in musicology from Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. After completing a PhD in cultural sociology and critical musicology at Griffith in 2009, Jodie was awarded a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research (2009-2012) and received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (2011).
Jodie is an esteemed scholar of international repute and author of Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer World-making (Peter Lang 2012), which was awarded the 2013 Australia and New Zealand Publication Prize by International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She is also co-author of Redefining Mainstream Popular Music (Routledge 2013) and The Festivalisation of Culture (Ashgate 2014). Jodie has published over 30 scholarly journal articles and book chapters and delivered over 26 papers at national and international conferences, which have received more than 2000 citations. She is recognised internationally as an expert in popular music, gender, sexuality and ageing; queer scenes and subcultural theory; ‘intimate insider’ research and ethnographic methods.
Testament to her expert reputation, Jodie has been an invited speaker 16 national and international scholarly events and institutions including the University of Manchester (UK), Lund University and Södertörn University (Sweden), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria) and Leuphana University (Germany). Jodie is on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies and the Scientific Committee of Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales and serves as an expert reviewer for more than 20 peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
In her creative pursuits, Jodie is equal parts musical theatre, industrial, electro, metal and torch singer. She is currently performing with Brisbane industrial band, Dogmachine.