Alastair Gordon

Alastair Gordon is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at De Montfort University, UK. His academic work bridges subcultural studies and media analysis, with a focus on punk culture and paranormal phenomena. Gordon brings practical experience from his background as a touring musician in bands like Hard to Swallow and John Holmes.

His research examines:

• Global subcultures and their media representations
• Paranormal narratives in contemporary media
• Punk culture as a sociological phenomenon

Publications include the monograph Crass Reflections (2016) and co-edited volumes The Punk Reader (2019 & 2022). In 2024, he contributed to music criticism analyzing experimental jazz-punk fusion.

Gordon co-founded the Punk Scholars Network, establishing an interdisciplinary platform for researchers studying punk's cultural impact.