Sally Rowena Munt is a feminist academic and author. She has written several books including Murder by the Book: Feminism and the Crime Novel.

She grew up in Huddersfield

Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, and has worked at several British universities. She is currently Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

, Brighton, UK. Her scholarship is concerned with gender/sexuality studies, class and cultural politics, and spatial theory.

Other publications

• Technospaces: Inside the New Media
• Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change
• Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space
• Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender
• Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction
• New Lesbian Criticism : Literary and Cultural Readings
• Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame

External links

• Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=400702§ioncode=26 Retrieved 24 Nov 2011