Assoc Professor Jeff Lewis

Position	Associate Dean, Research and Innovation
School / Work Unit	College of DSC Office
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 2909 jeff.lewis@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 6 Level: 6 Room: 16 City Campus
Portfolio	College of DSC Office

Qualifications

PhD (RMIT).

Thesis topic: 'The blind puppeteer: the communications relationship between Australia and Indonesia.'

Teaching/Work responsibilities

Associate Professor: Media and Cultural Studies

Associate Dean (Research and Innovation): Design and Social Context Portfolio

Senior Research Fellow: Globalism Institute

Research supervision

Research Interests

Media and political violence, cultural theory; transculturalism; new communications technology; textual studies; globalization studies; cultural democracy and the media, cultural politics and community recovery, te Australia-Indonesia communications relationship, Balinese and Indonesian culture, cultural crisis.

Jeff Lewis is Professorial Fellow in the Global Cities Institute and School of Applied Communication.

Publications

Books

Bali's Silent Crisis: Desire, Terror and Transition, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, NJ, 2009.

Cultural Studies, Second Edition, Sage, London, 2008.

Language Wars: The Role of Media and Culture in Global Terror and Political Violence,Pluto Books, London, 2005, 320pp.

Cultural Studies, London, Sage, 2002, 492pp.

Other Books

Extremity of the skies Finders Publishing, Melbourne [Short stories]

The Writer's Manual, Flinders Publishing.

Studying Australian Literature, Flinders Publishing

Edited Editions

The Largest Island [Australian Short Stories]

The Second Largest Island [Australian Short Stories]

Refereed Papers

Jeff Lewis has published over forty refereed papers, book chapters and conference papers. He has published newspapers articles, magazine articles, short stories, poems and songs.

Jeff Lewis has been a Fellow in the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics