STAFF PROFILE
Dr Djoymi Baker
Dr Djoymi Baker is a Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the School of Media & Communication.
Djoymi Baker is a Lecturer in Cinema Studies, and formerly worked in the Australian television industry. 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, from animals to aliens.
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 forthcoming). Her work can be found in leading journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Celebrity Studies, and Studies in Documentary Film.
Djoymi teaches Cinema Studies in the Bachelor of Communication (Media). Djoymi is also an Academic Advisor at RMIT and a member of the Student Staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) in the Media program. She is a Chief Investigator on the project Australian Children's Television Cultures, a Swinburne research project in collaboration with RMIT University, funded by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Djoymi supervises PhD projects on film and television genre; fandom; stardom; screen paratexts; and children's screen cultures. She is a committee member and secretary of the online journal Senses of Cinema Studies.
Network and Engagement
2023
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. The Power review, ABC 774 Radio Melbourne, 28 February.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. Introduction to Spirited Away, Best Pictures You've Never Seen, The Capitol Theatre, 21 February.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. "In his element": Burt Lancaster and The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964), CTEQ Annotations on Film, Senses of Cinema, April.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. Interviewed by Beatrice Hazlehurst, The era of the tween icon is over as we know it, i-D, 5 April.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. Succession review, ABC 774 Radio Melbourne, 31 March.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. War of the Worlds review, ABC 774 Radio Melbourne, 3 March.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2023. Shrinking review, ABC 774 Radio Melbourne, 3 February.
2022
- Balanzategui, Jessica, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, and Joanna McIntyre, 2022. Australian Children's Television Cultures, submission to the Consultation on Renewed National Cultural Policy, Swinburne University in collaboration with RMIT University, August.
2021
- Baker, Djoymi, 2021 (interview). Adult Nostalgia for Childhood TV Shows. RTRFM, 30 November.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2021 (interview). Nostalgic Children's Shows. ABC Radio, Regional Riff, 17 November.
- Baker, Djoymi, Jessica Balanzategui, Joanna McIntyre, and Liam Burke, 2021. Beyond Bluey: why adults love re-watching Australian kids' TV from their childhoods, The Conversation, 16 November.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2021 (interview). Reminiscing about Childhood TV Shows. ABC Radio Melbourne, 11 November.
- Burke, Liam, Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, and Joanna McIntyre, 2021. 'An idealised Australian ethos': why Bluey is an audience favourite, even for adults without kids, The Conversation, 29 September.
- Balanzategui, Jessica, Djoymi Baker, Joanna McIntyre and Liam Burke, 2021. Round the Twist's fans grew up – and their love for the show grew with them, The Conversation, 10 September.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2021. Soylent Green: Food Forecast Hard to Swallow, The Capitol Journal, March.
- Baker, Djoymi, 2021. Intergenerational Spectatorship: Doctor Who at the beach, Critical Studies in Television Online, 12 February.
2020
- Baker, Djoymi, 2020. The Shock of the Old: The 'Documentary' Fiction Film Moment with COVID-19, Senses of Cinema, Issue 95, July.
- Baker, Djoymi and Roberta Pearson, 2020. Return and Renewal in Star Trek: Picard, invited paper, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, 18 May.
- Baker, Djoymi, Jessica Balanzategui, and Diana Sandars, 2020. Family Watch Together TV: Netflix and the Dark Intergenerational Fantasy, Critical Studies in Television Online, 3 April.
Affiliations
- 2022-Present, AFI Research Collection Advisory Panel
- 2021-Present, Member, Australian Reception Network (ARN)
- 2020-Present, Secretary, Senses of Cinema journal
- 2018-Present, Member, Fan Studies Network
- Baker, D. (2023). The face of the environment: environmental human rights on screen In: Studies in Documentary Film, 17, 53 - 65
- Baker, D.,Balanzategui, J.,Sandars, D. (2023). Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom
- McIntyre, J.,Burke, L.,Baker, D.,Balanzategui, J. (2023). Kids’ TV Memories: Audience Perspectives on the Roles and Long-term Value of Australian Children’s Television In: Australian Children's Television Foundation Melbourne, Australia
- Baker, D.,Balanzategui, J. (2022). Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era In: Celebrity Studies, , 1 - 14
- Baker, D.,Balanzategui, J.,Sandars, D. (2022). In press - The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies In: Celebrity Studies, , 1 - 8
- Burke, L.,McIntyre, J.,Balanzategui, J.,Baker, D. (2022). Parents’ Perspectives on Australian Children’s Television in the Streaming Era In: Australian Children's Television Foundation Melbourne, Australia
- Baker, D. (2021). ‘Being the spiders’: The human-animal in Kazuo Ishiguro and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go In: Journal of Animal Ethics, 11, 97 - 105
- Baker, D. (2020). Child’s play: Addressing the young Cold War audience in Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949–1955) In: Critical Studies in Television, 15, 112 - 128
- Baker, D. (2019). Predestination: Uncanny (mis)recognition, science fiction and ‘home movie’ moments In: The Soundtrack, 10, 145 - 160
- Baker, D. (2018). To Boldly Go, I.B. Tauris and Company Limited , London, United Kingdom; New York, United States
- Tracking, Evidencing, and Maximising the Impact of the Australian Children Television Foundation’s Activities, 2021-2024. Funded by: The Australian Children’s Television Foundation- competitive from (2021 to 2024)
1 PhD Completions4 PhD Current Supervisions
- PhD (Screen and Cultural Studies), The University of Melbourne
- Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Double Major in Cinema and History), The University of Melbourne
- Chief Investigator for Australian Children's Television Cultures, a Swinburne University project in collaboration with RMIT University, funded by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
- Regular television reviewer for ABC Radio and film and television commentator.
- Previously worked in the Australian television industry.