Dr. Allan James Thomas
Details
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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allan.thomas@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-1986-9895
About
Allan is a member of the Media program team, and teaches into Cinema Studies, having taught courses such as Histories of Film Theory, and True Lies: Documentary Studies, Research in Contextual Studies, and Introduction to Cinema Studies. Allan was Program Manager of the Media and Communication Honours Program from 2018-2021, and has also at various times taught across 1st to 3rd year level courses in the Media program at RMIT, and into the Mass Communication program run by RMIT at the Singapore Institute of Management.
Research fields
- 3605 Screen and digital media
Supervisor projects
- The Transformation of a Practice in Hong Kong Cinema from Visual Narrative to an Action-Narrative Approach
- 25 Mar 2021
- Disrupting the Frame: A Comparative Practice-Led Study of Camera Staging and Montage in Cinematic Virtual Reality
- 19 Mar 2019
- Autonomy and Time
- 1 Aug 2018
- Attunings: Multilinear Ways of Thinking About, Making With, and Sensing the World
- 10 Apr 2018
Teaching interests
Cinema Studies, Film History, Film Theory, Film-Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze
Allan has received a number of teaching awards both within RMIT and at a national level:
2014 Australian Awards for University Teaching (Office for Learning and Teaching): Individual Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. “For sustained excellence in fostering independent, discovery-based learning in media and communication with a diverse cohort through student centered curriculum, assessment and feedback strategies.”
2013 RMIT Teaching Awards: Individual Award, Priority Area: Teaching a Diverse Student Body. “For a sustained and student-centred approach that builds on the diversity of the student cohort to produce engaged and critical scholarship in Media and Communication.”
2008 RMIT Teaching and Research Awards: Individual award: Higher Education Discipline Category: Humanities and the Arts (including Design) – “For excellence in fostering student centered learning through promoting discovery based independent learning in Media and Cinema Studies.”
Australian Awards for University Teaching (Australian Learning and Teaching Council): Citation to the Media teaching team for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - “For the collaborative delivery of a program that enhances student knowledge through integrating process-based learning with practice and fostering links between pedagogy and industry”
2007 RMIT University Teaching Awards Certificate of Achievement awarded to the Media teaching team, Category C – “Innovation in Curricula, Learning and Teaching”.
Research interests
Philosophy, Film, Television and Digital Media, History and Philosophy of Specific Fields, Communication and Media Studies
Allan's research interests include Film Theory and Continental Philosophy (especially the work of Gilles Deleuze), Documentary Film Theory, the intersections of critical and creative research, practical pedagogy, and has a developing interest in critical neurodiversity studies.
He published a scholarly monograph titled Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World with Edinburgh University Press in 2018.
