Dr Tanja Dreher is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney. Tanja’s research focuses on the politics of listening in the context of media and multiculturalism, racism and anti-racism after September 11, 2001 and of Indigenous sovereignties and discourses of gendered protectionism.
Tanja is a co-convenor of The Listening Project and of the workshops on Media, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Listening and Methodologies to Capture Listening. Tanja is currently working on a number of projects on listening, including a co-authored paper (with Cate Thill and Kate Crawford) on ‘Methodologies to capture listening’ and a pilot research, ‘Listening across Difference’ funded by a UTS ECR Grant and examining the practices and ethics of listening in Living Libraries and Digital Storytelling initiatives. She also has a book manuscript, ‘Listening across difference’ in progress and is working on an ARC Linkage project with new media arts organisation ICE (Information Cultural Exchange).

Tanja’s recent publications include:

• Dreher, T (forthcoming) ‘Speaking up or being heard? Community media interventions and the politics of listening’ Media, Culture and Society (revised manuscript accepted April 2009)
• Dreher, T and C Ho (eds) ‘Beyond the Hijab Debates: New conversations on gender, race and religion’ Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Osuri, G & T Dreher (2009) ‘Acting Sovereign: Interventions in a politics of gendered protectionism’ borderlands ejournal Vol 8 (1)
• Dreher, T (2009) ‘Eavesdropping with permission: the politics of listening for safer speaking spaces’ borderlands ejournal Vol 8 (1)
• Dreher, T (2009) ‘Listening across difference’ Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol 23 (4)
• O’Donnell, P, J Lloyd and T Dreher (2009) ‘Listening, Pathbuilding, Continuations: a new research agenda for media and cultural studies’ Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol 23 (4)
• Couldry, N and T Dreher (2007) ‘Globalization and the Public Sphere: The Space of Community Media in Sydney’ Global Media and Communication Vol 3(1) 79 – 100