Sally R Munt
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, and Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She has been a feminist since 1984, following her expulsion from a religious community for 'questioning authority'. Her many publications include Queer Attachments: the Cultural Politics of Shame (2007), Queer Spiritual Spaces (2010, with Kath Browne and Andrew Yip), and Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality and Gender in British Buddhism (2016, with Sharon Smith and Andrew Yip). Sally has served on many national and international research commissioning panels, and is the recipient of research funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She served as a research project evaluator for the E.U., and has been on many editorial boards for peer-reviewed publications. She has edited 6 books in the fields of gender, sexuality, and cultural studies, most recently The Ashgate Research Companion to Sociocultural Studies of the Paranormal (2013, co-edited with Olu Jenzen). Sally is also qualified in cognitive psychotherapy and psychiatry and is a BABCP Accredited therapist in private practice.