Brief Academic Biography
Dr. Moodley is a registered counselling psychologist, and he lectures in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University. He also holds an honorary research associate appointment in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University. Thus far, his collective research output addresses the politics of formal and informal sexual socialisation practices such as sexuality education and popular music, respectively, and their role in promoting norms and values that police gendered sexualities.
Research
Research Topics
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Popular culture and music
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Gender and sexuality studies
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Formal and informal sexual socialisation practices
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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
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Psychosocial research methods
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The intersections between psychoanalysis and poststructuralism.
About my Research
My research broadly focuses on the politics of identity, particularly representations gender and sexuality depicted in popular media and the implications this has for youth cultures. My current research looks at how cultural products, such as music, are a form of social fantasising for consumers through which their gendered and sexual identities are continuously worked through, mastered and constituted.
Selected Publications
Macleod, C., Moodley, D. & Saville Young. (2015). Sexual socialisation in Life Orientation manuals versus popular music: responsibilisation versus pleasure, tension and complexity. Perspectives in Education, 33(2). 90-107
Saville Young, L., Moodley, D. & Macleod, C. (2018). Female sexual desire, shame, anxiety and denial: a psychosocial case study of an educator’s constructions of and investment in sexuality education. Sex Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1511974
Moodley, D. (2018). The politics of female adolescent sexuality in music: a social semiotic analysis of Liz Phair’s “Glory”. Social Semiotics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1541119
Teaching
First year and master’s level.
Teaching Areas
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Social psychology
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Personality Psychology
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Psychopathology