Dr. Djoymi Baker
Details
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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djoymi.baker@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-1618-3775
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
About
Dr Djoymi Baker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies at the School of Media & Communication. She is currently the Program Manager for Media.
Her research examines film and television genres; children's screen cultures; myth in popular culture; stardom; and the ethics of representing the non-human on screen. Djoymi is the author of To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (IB Tauris 2018) and the co-author of The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (Rowman & Littlefield 2014), and Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing (Routledge 2023). Her work can be found in leading journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Celebrity Studies, and Studies in Documentary Film. You can hear her monthly television recommendations on ABC Local Radio Melbourne with Raf Epstein.
Supervisor projects
- The Devil is in All of You: The Changing Face of Satan in Cinema
- 30 Jul 2025
- Pretty Little Liars and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin: Feminist Analysis and Reflections
- 3 Jul 2024
- Throw Away the Container: Cybertext Mechanics in Film Practice and Theory
- 3 Jun 2024
- Child performance, child audiences, and the 1960s American family sitcom genre
- 14 Nov 2023
- How Australian Netflix and Stan 'Original' films relate to, reconfigure, and/or recontextualise the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic paradigms of Australian national cinema
- 3 Jul 2023
- Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema
- 18 Jan 2023
- The Social Alien: Otherness and Identity Exploration Within Doctor Who Fandom
- 1 Jan 2022
