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Dr. Charlie Jeffries is an Assistant Professor in American and Media Studies at the University of Sussex, affiliated with the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Studies from the University of Oxford, and an undergraduate degree in American Studies from King’s College London with a year abroad at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in US history, particularly twentieth- and twenty-first-century social movements and media-political intersections. She authored *Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars* (2022), which won the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Award (2023), and co-edited *Resist, Organize, Build* (2022). Current research includes studies on the lesbian magazine *Girlfriends* and campus sexuality debates in the 1990s.
Her academic career includes a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Birkbeck, University of London, and lectureships at Keble College, Oxford, and the University of East Anglia. She has received grants from the AHRC, Duke University, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. At Sussex, she serves on the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and the Sussex Centre for American Studies steering committees.
Teaching and Supervision: In 2024-25, she teaches undergraduate courses on American Political Culture, Modern America, and Feminism and Digital Culture, as well as postgraduate modules on Queering Popular Culture. She supervises PhDs in American political/cultural history, gender/sexuality studies, and activist media.
