Dr Red Chidgey’s research interests lie at the intersections of gender studies, media and cultural studies, and memory studies. Their activist-informed research projects have examined feminist media production in Europe (Austrian Science Fund), young women as creators of new cultural spaces (Austrian Science Fund), do-it-yourself zine cultures (EU 6th Framework), and the challenges of curating protest memory within the GLAM sector (AHRC).

Their first book Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times (2018) offers an analytical framework for examining how social movement memories travel across cultural, heritage, commercial and protest sites. Their second book Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (2024, with Joanne Garde-Hansen) investigates how contemporary activism is collected, displayed and remembered within the cultural sector.

Red is currently co-editing (with Joanne Garde-Hansen) a Routledge Companion to Media and Memory.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

Red is interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas:

• Feminist and queer theory, media production and activism
• Critical whiteness, popular feminisms and popular culture
• Rapid response collecting and protest themed exhibitions
• Entanglements between activism, the creative industries and the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector
• Creative and collaborative methodologies

For more details, please see their full research profile.

Teaching

Red is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. They are passionate about developing student-centred teaching approaches and hosting interactions with practitioners from media, arts and heritage organisations.

Red teaches across the subject areas of cultural memory, gender, media, research methodologies, creative citizenship, and the politics of representation.

Expertise and Public Engagement

Red is regularly involved in public lectures, including invited talks at the Barbican and Tate Modern. They are happy to speak to the media about any areas of their research expertise.

Committed to public engagement, Red was a UK national expert for FRAGEN, a pan-European memory project archiving key feminist texts.

They were an international collaborator for Making Art, Making Media, Making Change (Austrian Science Fund), an arts-based initiative developing feminist educational resources for girls and young women.

Red co-organised Clear Lines, a four-day arts festival bringing together academics, journalists, campaigners, artists and the public to talk about sexual assault and consent.

Red co-curated Tate Liverpool’s Three Day Work-Out with Dr Nuria Querol and Post-Workers Theatre, exploring connections between work, protest and precarity.