Pirkko Markula-Denison, PhD

About

Degrees

Ph.D (Kinesiology, major sport sociology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

MSc (sport administration) University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Background

Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Lecturer, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Senior lecturer, Exeter University, United Kingdom

Senior lecturer, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Contemporary dancer 

Trained at the Dance Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States (emphasis on Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Jose Limon techniques) and Erick Hawkins technique with Randy Howard in Hamilton, New Zealand

Currently choreographer and dancer, Initial 6, University of Alberta.

Fitness Instructor

ACE certified group fitness instructor

Pilates instructor (Michael King, United Kingdom)

BarrePilates instructor

Research

Physical cultural studies of physical activity:

I study dance and exercise in contemporary culture from poststructuralist Deleuzian and Foucaultian perspectives. My current projects include:

• Dance and Aging
• Physical Activity and the Moving Body: From Foucault to Deleuze with Jim Denison
• New materialism and physical activity
• performance ethnography

Blog: Fit Femininity

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fit-femininity

Co-Founder: the Body, Movement, and Culture Research Group

https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/bmc-research-group/home

Markula, P. (2019). Deleuze and Physically Activity Body. London, UK: Routledge.

Teaching

KSR 685 Doctoral Seminar