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Dr. Jason Dittmer
  
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Dr. Jason Dittmer

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About

1.jpgDr Jason Dittmer
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way, Room G19
London WC1H 0AP

Email: j.dittmer@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 5505
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 0565

Office hours:
Tuesdays 11am-1pm
Wednesdays 1pm-2pm
(no office hours 22 Jan, 5-6 Feb)

 

Convenor of MSc in Globalisation: Please contact me if you have questions about this degree programme.

Co-Editor: Aether: The Journal of Media Geography
Editorial Board Member: Political Geography; Professional Geographer; Social and Cultural Geography; The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship;  Focus on Geography

I am the author of Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics (Temple University Press, 2013), Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010) and the co-editor of Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions (Ashgate, 2010).

Please contact me if you are interested in conducting PhD study in any of the following topics, or if you have an innovative and different idea in which you think I might be interested:

  • Geopolitics, critical and materialist
  • Geographies of media, especially comic books
  • Religion and (geo)politics
  • Poststructuralist approaches to diplomacy

 

Biography

 

2.jpg2011-Present:
Reader in Human Geography, Department of Geography, University College London

2007-2011:
Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, University College London

2003-2007:
Assistant Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University

2007-2009:
Post-graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, UCL

1999-2003:
PhD in Geography, Florida State University

1998-1999:
MA in International Affairs, Florida State University

1994-1998:
BA in Political Science/International Studies, Jacksonville University

Current Teaching

 

3.jpgUndergraduate teaching:

  • Global Geographies (Geopolitics module)
  • Political Geography and Geopolitics (team-taught)
  • Popular Culture and Geopolitics (offered in alternate years)


Graduate teaching:

  • Approaches to Globalisation
  • Issues in Globalisation
  • Visual Methods lecture in Social Science Research Methods