- European Doctorate
in Media and Cultural Studies
(University of Sussex)


- British MA
in International Journalism
(Napier University)


- German MSc
in Psychology
(University of Bonn)

Dunja Brill used to be involved in the German alternative music scene as a singer of the band Lie Still, and as a freelance writer for various music magazines and fanzines like Sonic Seducer and Black.

Her research interests include subcultural formations, media representations of gender and sexuality, alternative music media, and the methodological combination of discourse analysis and ethnography.

She has taught at University of Sussex and at Humboldt-University Berlin, and is currently pursuing a new research project revolving around constructions of violence, gender, race and class in 'extreme' musical genres (e.g. Industrial and Extreme Metal). She is also working on a book about gender, sexualities and eroticism in the Gothic subculture based on her thesis.