Kaitlyn Regehr

Kaitlyn Regehris a Senior Lecturer in media and digital culture at the University of Kent, whose research is centred around the cultural impacts of new technology. She is best known for serving as a topic specialist for BBC Three.[1]

Kaitlyn Regehr
Regehr at University College London, 2017
Born1985 (age 36–37)
Toronto, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma materKing's College London Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Academic work
DisciplineNew Media and Cultural Studies
Sub-disciplineGender Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Kent

Regehr's work explores digital intimacy, online gender politics and the interpersonal consequences of the Web 2.0 era. Her projects include a documentary on digital “INCEL” communities [2] (BBC3); and a commission from the Mayor of London with Professor Jessica Ringrose (UCL), which used digital storytelling and a survey of 2000 Londoners.[3][4]

Regehr’s current project examines contemporary sex and relationship education and considers the complex web of image exchange, pornography, consent and safe digital practices for youth in the techno-facilitated era.[5]

Regehr’s book with photographer Matilda Temperley, on one of the first sex worker unions in America, The League of Exotic Dancers was released in 2017 (Oxford University Press).[6]

Early life and work

Regehr was born in Toronto, Canada. Her mother, Cheryl Regehr is Provost of the University of Toronto. Her Father is British born psychiatrist, Graham Glancy who has worked on notable cases including the Paul Bernardo case, and has served as president of both the Canadian and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.[7]

Regehr served as a presenter on the popular Slice Network (Canada) and Bio Network (UK) television series Re-Vamped, (Entertainment One) which examined women's physical empowerment, historic forms of beauty and burlesque.[8][9]

Regehr holds a doctorate from King's College London.[10]

Virally and digital culture

In 2015, Regehr reported an assault which occurred on a West London bus[11][12] on social media.[13][14] This heavily publicised incident sparked her recent publications with Jessica Ringrose (University College London) surrounding contemporary digital feminism, social media campaigns responding to sexual assault and the MeToo movement.[15] Regehr has gone on to serve as a topic specialist for BBC World on these themes.

Regehr has spoken out about digital cultures, online abuse and the consequences of the digital age. She also integrated this work into her teaching at the University of Kent, where she has developed programming on digital storytelling and social media and participatory culture.

Publications
  • Pink ribbon pin-ups : photographing femininity after breast cancer, 2012
  • The League of Exotic Dancers : legends from American burlesque, 2017

References
  1. Kaitlyn Regehr (guest) (31 July 2019). Inside the Secret World of Incels (Television). BBC Three. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. Kaitlyn Regehr (guest) (12 June 2019). Secrets of Sugar Baby Dating (Television). BBC Three. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. "The Women We See: Gender and diversity in advertising". Greater London Authority. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  4. Regehr, Kaitlyn; Ringrose, Jessica (July 2018). The Women We See (PDF). Greater London Authority.
  5. "Is It over for Justin Trudeau". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  6. Regehr, Kaitlyn (2017). The League of Exotic Dancers: legends from American burlesque. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190457563.
  7. "Governance". American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL).
  8. Kaitlyn Regehr (presenter). Various (Television). Re-Vamped. Entertainment One. Archived from the original on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
  9. Kaitlyn Regehr at IMDb Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  10. "Kaitlyn Regehr - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  11. "Kaitlyn Regehr finds 'Good Samaritan' after sex attack". BBC News. October 19, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  12. "Canadian Woman Assaulted In London Thanks 'Awesome Dude' Who Helped Her". HuffPost. October 9, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  13. "Sex-attack woman's Facebook plea". BBC News. October 9, 2015.
  14. Finnigan, Lexi (October 9, 2015). "Kaitlyn Regehr seeks London bus sex attack Good Samaritan". The Telegraph. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  15. Regehr, Kaitlyn; Ringrose, Jessica (2018). "Celebrity Victims and Wimpy Snowflakes: Using Personal Narratives to Challenge Digitally Mediated Rape Culture". In Ryan Vickery, Jacqueline; Everbach, Tracy (eds.). Mediating misogyny: gender, technology, and harassment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 353–370. ISBN 9783319729176.
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