Jon Stratton

Professor Jon Stratton is an Australian academic who is an internationally recognised leading scholar in the field of Cultural Studies, with eleven sole authored books, five edited collections, over sixty book chapters and over eighty journal articles. Stratton has been a media commentator for over twenty-five years in print, radio and television.

Stratton has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980, teaching at universities in Brisbane (Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland), Armidale (University of New England), Darwin (Northern Territory University) and Perth, (Curtin University).

Stratton's work critically examines aspects of everyday life and also popular music, centred on issues of identity and cultural specificity. He has published widely from articles on soap opera to subcultures to cyberspace and books on postmodernity, the body and the role of race and multiculturalism in Australian culture. Stratton has also published three books on issues associated with Jewishness and identity.

Stratton was Vice-President of the Australasian Cultural Studies Association between 2000 and 2004. He co-edited the Transnational Cultural Studies series for University of Illinois Press between 1997 and 2000. In 1998 he held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the International Forum for United States’ Studies at the University of Iowa. Stratton has been the chief investigator for two Australian Research Council grants. Most recently, in 2013, on the history of popular music in Perth.

Stratton is on the editorial boards of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture amongst other journals. Stratton is an editor of borderlands e-journal.

Stratton is actively publishing and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at University of South Australia. Previously, Stratton was serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University, until retiring in 2014. Many of Stratton's publications are available on Academia.edu. Jon Stratton can also be contacted from his Academia.edu webpage.