I am pleased to announce that a new contributor, Jennifer K. Otter, has joined Rock and Theology. She grew up in the small beach town of Santa Cruz, CA. As she tells it, from a young age, she carried a Fisher-Price record player around with her instead of a doll. And by age 18, she had her first paid position in the music industry, as College Marketing Representative for Sony Music, touring with Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and a little band called Nirvana.

At 25, Jennifer went on to be the West Coast Marketing Director for Interscope Geffen A & M Records, creating branding and marketing campaigns for artists such as No Doubt, Sting, U2 and Eminem. Then in 2003, she left to start her own marketing company, working with a variety of culture industry tastemakers, including L.A.M.B., Facebook and Quannum Projects, while lecturing at San Francisco State University and writing her M.A. in Humanities on Morrissey fandom as religion.

Currently, Jennifer is an associate lecturer at several universities, including SAE Institute in London and Oxford as well as the University of East London. She is finishing her Ph.D. at Goldsmiths University of London in Cultural Studies. Her thesis work examines the evolution of cultural myth and image, focusing on Joy Division’s Ian Curtis and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain.

As do all our contributors, Jennifer brings a substantial background to this project that gives her a unique angle on music and religion, and I look forward to her contributions in the R&T community. Welcome, Jennifer!

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   Welcome to the project!

   Comment by Michael Iafrate — September 21, 2011 @ 10:02 pm

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