Lisa J. Hackett

Lisa J. Hackett is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of New England, Australia. She researches fashion, aviation, romance novels, and other forms of popular culture and cultural representation. Her most recent monograph, The British Royals in Popular Culture: From the Tudors to the Windsors (Routledge, 2025, co-authored with Jo Coghlan and Huw Nolan), reflects her broad engagement with celebrity, identity, and cultural history. She is currently under contract with Routledge for Aviation as Popular Culture, 1783–1939, and with Reaktion Books for two forthcoming titles: Chewing Gum: A Global History (2027) and Dressing for Leisure: How Swimsuits Shaped Popular Culture from Bloomers to Bikinis (2027, co-authored with Jo Coghlan). She is also co-editor of several volumes in the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series. Lisa is the co-founder and director of PopCRN, the Popular Culture Research Network at the University of New England, and is an active participant in the Aviation Cultures research network. She is a recipient of the University of New England Early Career Researcher Award (2025).