I believe strongly in the transformative nature of learning. As the great Irish poet W.B. Yeates wrote, “education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” I have taught in England, New Zealand, and Australia and like to bring a performative aspect to my teaching (including re-enacting the 'pie in the face' gag in one of my lectures on silent comedy). At RMIT, I am currently the Associate Dean of Discilpine, working with increrdible artists and thinkers in the programs of music industry, creative writing and literature, media and cinema, journalism, and writing and publishing. These programs create a learning environment that is inclusive and progressive and where the hopes of tomorrow are brought clearly into view.
I have interests in the study of stardom and celebrity, fandom and audiences, critical race theory and the representation of whiteness, film genre, film sound, visual technologies, and film authorship. I am a huge fan of science fiction film and television and write on this genre the most often. Over the last five years I have been researching loneliness and my latest publication for the New Review of Film and Television looks at hotel and motel loneliness in cinema.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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