Jennifer is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the DCRC’s research project ‘The Automation of Everyday Life’. She received her PhD from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.  Her research interests include: gender and technology, the Gothic, medical humanities, girlhood, toys and play, popular culture and everyday life. Her most recent publication is an edited collection with Miriam Forman-Brunell entitled Dolls Studies: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys and Play (Peter Lang: 2015). She is currently working on a monograph that explores the role of the doll in the standardization of beauty in the West. Jennifer is a founding member of Assuming Gender (www.assuminggender.com), an ongoing Cardiff University research project with an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed and open-access academic journal.