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Bernadette Casey
University College Plymouth St.
Marks and St. John, School of
Creative Arts, Communications and
Management, Derriford Road,
Plymouth, PL6 8BH, United
Kingdom
Keywords supervision, media
studies, practice, theory, collaboration
Laura Borràs Castanyer
Universitat de Barcelona,
Comparative Literature and Literary
Theory, Barcelona, Spain
Keywords literary theory, digital
literature, distance learning
Her research interests lie in the areas of consumer behaviour and
motivations, ethical consumption, eco-fashion, and value-clothing.
› Consumers' perceptions of 'green': Why and how consumers use eco-fashion
and green beauty products, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 2.1-2, 117-
138.
Bernadette Casey is Dean of the School of Creative Arts,
Communications and Management and lectures in media studies and
sociology at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. Her
academic background is in sociology/cultural studies and her doctorate
was an ethnographic study of an arts centre. She has taught for many
years in sociology and media studies and has published in both
disciplines.
› Supporting and assessing dissertations and practical projects in media studies
degrees: towards collaborative learning, Art, Design & Communication in
Higher Education, 3.1, 47-60.
Laura Borràs Castanyer, Ph.D. in Romance Philology (1997) from the
UB, has attained the qualification of European Doctor (1997) and has
been awarded the Special Ph.D. Prize (1998) in Social Sciences at the
same university. She is an associate professor on Comparative
Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Barcelona. She
devoted the last 12 years to develop the Open and Distance Learning
(ODL) on the literary field –mainly on Comparative Literature and
Digital Literature as well. Member of the Literary Advisory Board of
the ELO, from 2000, she directs and is the main investigator of the
International Research Group HERMENEIA, made up of professors
and investigators from various European and American universities,
whose mission is to study connections between Literary Studies and
Digital Technologies.
› From ‘words, words, words’ to ‘birds, birds, birds’. Literature between the
representation and the presentation: where imagination and reflection still,
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 4.1, 107-120.