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Dr Mike Stack

Dr Mike Stack

Course Tutor (Gender and Culture)

Department of Sociology

Email
m.stack1@lse.ac.uk
Room No
OLD.3.16
orcid
0000-0002-1110-3756
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Popular culture, queer theory, psychosocial studies

About me

Mike gained a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught on the BA in Psychosocial Studies and the MA/MSc in Gender and Sexuality. The modules that he taught there included: Love: An Introduction to Psychosocial Studies; Hate – On the Power of the Negative; Power; Sexuality; Urban Multicultures; Creative Archives; and Theorising Gender.

He has previously worked in administration within Higher Education.

Expertise Details

Queer Theory and History; Gender Studies; Cultural Theory; Psychosocial Studies; Media Theory and History; Fandom and Participatory Culture

Selected publications

Doctor Who and the Gay Male Fandom: A Queer(ed) Transmedia Franchise (University of Amsterdam Press, 2024).

Clarke Dare Speak Not its Name: Defining Sexuality in Imperial Earth, in Rendezvous with Clarke: Critical Essays, eds Paul March-Russell and Andrew Butler (Gylphi Press, 2022), 213–234.

The Changing Queerness of Homo Superior in The Tomorrow People, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 141, 51.1 (Spring 2022), 78–94.

Did the Doctor Change Sex or Change Gender? Navigating the Sex and Gender Divide in Doctor Who, in Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series, eds Lindy Orthia and Marcus K. Harmes (McFarland & Company, 2021), 94–109.

Research

Mike is currently writing on the demographics of fandom. He is interested in both quantitative and qualitative research, as well as archival materials. He is aiming to explore scientific ideas about sexuality, how they circulate in culture, as well as delving into the Hall Carpenter Archives at LSE.

Teaching and PhD supervision

In the 2025/26 academic year, Mike will be teaching on: SO4D3 Culture and Society and SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology, and convene SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life and SO248 Gender and Society.

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