[2] Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia.
[3] Tasker is a scholar in the field of film studies, gender and the media, and the politics of popular culture.
[6] Tasker also co-wrote, with Diane Negra, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2007), a foundational text of postfeminism and popular culture.
[7] Her current research includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer that explores the career of documentary maker Jill Craigie.
The project works in partnership with Lizzie Thynne (University of Sussex) and Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics) and will create an experimental film biography of Craigie and a co-authored book.