Professor Jo Littler

Jo’s work analyses changing cultures of inequality across media and society. Her books include Left Feminisms (2023); with The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto (2020); Against Meritocracy (2018); Radical Consumption (2008); and, with Roshi Naidoo, The Politics of Heritage (2005). She co-edits European Journal of Cultural Studies and is part of the editorial collective for Soundings: A Journal of Politics & Culture.

She is a regular invited speaker at public events. Besides academic conferences, these have included talks for the Equality Trust, an APPG group on social mobility in parliament, the Canadian Worldviews union lecture, the Barbican and the Young Vic. Her work has featured on ABC Radio Australia, US National Public Radio, The Guardian, Il Manifesto and El Pais. She is a Trustee for the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust and a judge of the 2023 Stuart Hall Essay Prize.

In 2023-4 she is working on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on 'Ideologies of Inequality'.