Jack Maginn

I began my academic career at The University of Bristol where I achieved a first class honours in BSc. Politics and International Relations. Following the completion of my undergraduate I moved to SOAS, University of London were I completed a masters in Comparative Political Thought with distinction. My studies at SOAS centred around queer theory, politics, temporality and cinema. My masters thesis was a queer temporal reading of the theory of Donna Haraway and the Afrofuturist music and cinema of Janelle Monáe. In 2020 I moved to The University of Brighton in order to study for a doctorate in The School of Arts and Media. My doctoral thesis, now submitted, looks to build upon Freeman's hypersocial approach to Queer Theory through a concideration of Pierre Bourdieu and Virginia Woolf as queer theorists of time. 

Maginn. J., (2024), ‘Unbound and Loving It!: Pleasure, Dressage and Queer Rhythmic Resistance in Monáe’s Dirty Computer’, in Ávila. J. F. B. and Encarnación-Pinedo. E. (eds.), Unbound Queer Time in Literature, 
Cinema and Video Games, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 241-254

Writer: Maginn. J., (2022), 'Review of Leap (2020): Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History', Journal of Laguague and Sexuality, 11(2), pp. 282-285 [Review of Leap (2020): Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History | John Benjamins (jbe-platform.com)]

-Speaker at the 'Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference' (03/12/21, Online: University of Murcia)

-Lead organiser for The Univeristy of Brighton's 'Screen Studies' REG's winter symposium (16/11/21, Online: University of Brighton)

-Speaker at the 'Following the Affective Turn Postgraduate Symposium' (Date: 17/09/2021, Location: University of Brighton)

-Member of organising comitee for the 2021 'Cente for Memory, Narrative and Histories' conference 'Transgenerational Memory' (Date: 01/07/21, Location: Univeristy of Brighton Online Space)

I am broadly interested in how bodies become legibile through their timings and rhythm and how timing and rhythm can be used as a mode of queer temporal resistance. My work explores these issues through both theortical engagement with queer theory and 20th century continental philosophy, as well as literary and filmic textual readings. 

My doctoral thesis 'Destabilising the Chrononormative: Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Freeman' sits at the intersection of queer theory of temporality, continental philosophy, film studies and literary studies and simultaneously builds upon relational queer theory and explores novel avenues for the queering of Woolf's work.