Clarissa Smith is Professor of Sexual Cultures at the University of Sunderland.
Her research revolves around issues relating to sex, sexual identities and sexual representations in contemporary culture. She is the founding co-editor of the Porn Studies Journal and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Gender Studies, Sexualities and Participations.
Among her numerous publications are One for the girls!: the pleasures and practices of reading women’s porn. (2007) and British Sexual Cultures. (2009).