Celia Kitzinger
Kitzinger is Professor of Conversation Analysis, Gender and Sexuality in the Department of Sociology at the University of York.
She has long had a career in academia, having published nine books and contributed over one hundred articles relating to language, feminism and homosexual issues. Kitzinger earned a M.A. degree from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Reading. After having served from 1999–2000 as Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, she accepted her current post at York.
Kitzinger is also qualified as being a chartered psychologist within the British Psychological Society, of which she was elected fellow in 1997. Furthermore, the American Psychological Association has also honoured her by accepting her as fellow in 2000.
Currently Professor Kitzinger is using conversation analysis to explore the ordinary mundane reproduction of heterosexism in everyday talk-in-interaction, and aside from her work at the University of York she also serves as associate editor of Feminism & Psychology.
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