I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teach a range of units over the three years undergraduate degree in film and Media. In the past twelve years I have been programme leader and year tutor for all three years. I align practice and theory on my units as this is a method that inspires my students. My units draw upon my research and they are "Youth Cultures and Subcultures", "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction". I also teach research methods, especially empirical research and qualitative methods to undergraduates. I have also worked with postgraduate students supervising their research and teaching comics on the MA
Researching women in comics and subcultural identities. Research into subcultures develops my PhD, 'Expressions of Nation and Place in British Surfing Identities' which focused on analysing representations of surfing and national identity through film and popular culture. I have extensive publications in surfing, surfing cultures and their representations, gender in comics, time and spatiality in the media and transmedia universes.
Currently writing a book on Wonder Woman which examines cultural, political and social influences upon the representation of the human body from the 1940s . I edited a book with Dr Matthew Jones of de Montfort on time travel in the media and I edit Routledge's Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcom with David Huxley . We have organised ten international comics conferences at Manchester Metropolitan University with colleagues in Intellect's Studies in Comics and the European Journal of Comic Art.
I am interested in supporting anyone researching in any of the areas mentioned above.
JM. Ormrod (2012). Pa/trolling the Borders of the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency Website: Realism, Gender, Authenticity. G. Schott, K. Moffatt. In: Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire. Washington DC: New Academia, pp.33-55.
J. Ormrod (2012). Adapting Poe. DR. Perry, CH. Sederholm. In: Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan US, pp.145-163.
JM. Ormrod WONDER WOMAN THE FEMALE BODY AND POPULAR CULTURE. Bloomsbury.
M. Gibson, D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2014). Superheroes and Identities. Routledge.
W. Grady, J. Ormrod (2020). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 11(3), pp.257-258.
W. Grady, J. Ormrod (2019). Editorial issues 10:5&6. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 10(5-6), pp.485-487.
J. Ormrod, D. Huxley (2019). Editorial issue 10:2. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 10(2), pp.195-196.
J. Ormrod, D. Huxley (2019). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 10(4), pp.391-392.
J. Ormrod (2018). Reading production and culture UK teen Girl comics from 1955 to 1960. Girlhood Studies. 11(3), pp.8-33.
J. Ormrod (2018). 1960s surfsploitation films: Sex, the bikini and the active female body. Film, Fashion & Consumption. 7(2), pp.147-163.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2018). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 9(1), pp.1-2.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2018). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 9(2), pp.117-118.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2017). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 8(4), pp.305-306.
J. Ormrod, D. Huxley (2017). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 8(2), pp.117-118.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2016). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 7(1), pp.1-2.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2015). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 6(4), pp.315-318.
J. Ormrod (2015). The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore, and: Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941–1948 by Noah Berlatsky (review). Cinema Journal. 55(1), pp.187-192.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2015). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 6(3), pp.199-200.
J. Ormrod (2015). Book review: Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing. Cultural and Social History. 12(2), pp.281-284.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2015). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 6(2), pp.119-121.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2015). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 6(1), pp.1-2.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2014). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 5(4), pp.381-382.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2014). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 5(2), pp.123-124.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2014). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 5(1), pp.1-2.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2013). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 4(2), pp.189-190.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2013). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 4(1), pp.82-83.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2012). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 3(2), pp.125-126.
P. Coogan, M. Gibson, D. Huxley, J. Ormrod, D. Royal (2011). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 2(1), pp.1-2.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2010). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 1(2), pp.91-92.
D. Huxley, J. Ormrod (2010). Editorial. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 1(1), pp.1-4.
J. Ormrod (2007). Surf Rhetoric in American and British Surfing Magazines Between 1965 and 1976. Sport in History. 27(1), pp.88-109.
J. Ormrod (2005). Endless Summer (1964): Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier. Film and History: an interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies. 35(1), pp.39-51.
A. Patel (1993). Editorial. Comput. Commun.. 16(9), pp.530-531.
M. Jones, J. Ormrod (2015). Time Travel in Popular Media Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games. McFarland,
JM. Ormrod (2012). Pa/trolling the Borders of the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency Website: Realism, Gender, Authenticity. G. Schott, K. Moffatt. In: Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire. Washington DC: New Academia, pp.33-55.
J. Ormrod (2012). Adapting Poe. DR. Perry, CH. Sederholm. In: Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan US, pp.145-163.
JM. Ormrod Women on the Edge: Unruly Bodies, spectacle and violence in Wonder Woman post 9/11. Leeds Thought Bubble, 13/11/2014.
JM. Ormrod 'British Surfers’ Reception of Pure Surf Movies in the 1960s and ‘70s'. Keele University, 11/7/2013.
JM. Ormrod Globalisation, hybridity and the Origins of British Romance Comics in the 1950s. Glasgow, 24/6/2013.
JM. Ormrod Reading Production and Culture in UK Romance Comics 1955-63: Consumerism, Pop Stars and Lucky Guitars. London, 4/2012.
JM. Ormrod Body Issues in Wonder Woman 90-100 (1994-6). University of Tennessee, 15/3/2012.
JM. Ormrod Adapting The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency from Website to Comic: History, Realism, Narrative. University of Bedfordshire, 11/1/2012.
JM. Ormrod Teenage Dream Tonight: Pop Promotion in UK Romance Comics 1955-62. Manchester Metropolitan University, 7/2011.
JM. Ormrod Negotiating Local Identities in 1970s Surf Films: Practice, Production, Embodiment. Reading University, 11/2010.
JM. Ormrod A Heap of Broken Images: Countersong and Readership in T.S. Eliot and Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land. Lancaster University, 12/6/2010.
JM. Ormrod Issues of Time, Space and Duration in Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’. Manchester Metropolitan University, 23/4/2010.