Sean Cubitt#
| Membership Number: | 4082 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Professor of Screen Studies, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
- 2012 - 2019 Professor of Film and Television, Department of Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, London, UK
- 2011 - 2012 Professor of Global Media and Communications, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
- 2006 - 2011 Professor and Director of the Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
- 2000 - 2006 Professor of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand
- 1989 - 2000 Professor of Media Arts (from 1st September 2000); Reader in Video and Media Studies (1994-2000);Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (1989-1994) Liverpool John Moores University (previously Liverpool Polytechnic)
- 1990- 1993 Visiting Lecturer in Experimental Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Media
- Video
- Media art history
- Digital aesthetics
- Experimental media
- Film
- Ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Assessor/reviewer, Cultural Values, AHRC
- 2012 Member, Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
- 2011 Communication Sciences panel, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal
- 2010 International Advisory Board, CoLAB, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2008 Co-Chair, Media Art History 09 Re:live conference; National Committee and Melbourne Implementation Group
- 2008 International Advisory Board , Centre for Cinema Studies, University of British Columbia
- 2004 - 2006 International Advisory Board, ISEA 2006 (San Jose)
- 2002 - Honorary Professor, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland
- 1995 - 1999 Chair, Board of Directors, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
