Steve Redhead

Steve Redhead is the Professor of Sports Media at Charles Sturt University. He is also Visiting Professor of Accelerated Culture at the University of Bolton. Previously, he has held professorships in Canada and the United Kingdom and a Visiting Professorship at Murdoch University in Australia. While his recent scholarship has focused on Paul Virilio and theories of accelerated modernity, he is known for his research on post-youth culture, law, critical criminology, and popular culture and football fanzines.

He holds a LLM from Manchester University and a PhD from the University of Warwick. Combining law and cultural studies, his scholarship has focused on theories of deviance in both football fandom and dance cultures, along with current interests in speed, terrorism, football memoirs, war and theories of social change.

Redhead is known for a series of scholarly innovations, in theories of deviance, (post) youth culture and accelerated modernity.

While currently working in Bathurst in regional New South Wales, Australia, most of his career was spent at Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture with Derek Wynne. He also was the head of the Creative Industries Taskforce for the Geoff Gallop Government in Western Australia. He is married to Tara Brabazon, Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. They live in Bathurst.

A well-known media commentator, he recently appeared on the BBC4 programme, Dance Britannia. He is also an active podcaster and is developing a series of microinterviews with Tara Brabazon.

His best known books include Rave Off, End of the Century Party, Repetitive Beat Generation and Sing When You're Winning. His book on Jean Baudrillard, The Jean Baudrillard Reader, was published simultaneously by both Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press in 2008. Edinburgh University Press published The Paul Virilio Reader and Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture in 2004. His new book, We have never been postmodern, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011. A podcast on this book is available.