Biography

Dr Angela Cruz is Associate Professor in Marketing at Monash University (Caulfield, Melbourne) and holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Auckland. Angela's research is focused on theories of consumption, marketing communication, and branding at the boundaries of markets – referring to liminal market spaces where complexities, ambivalences, and transformations abound. This encompasses:

1. Cultural boundaries – the boundary between mobility and settlement, and between East and West
2. Technological boundaries – the boundary between human and machine, and between virtuality and reality
3. Conceptual boundaries – the boundary between consumer culture theory and other marketing domains

Angela frequently draws on cross-disciplinary, critical, and poststructuralist modes of theorising in line with the consumer culture theory (CCT) paradigm. Angela is experienced in a range of qualitative methodologies including hermeneutic analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, visual projective techniques, and ZMET.