Rate My Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis is Professor of Publishing and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2003. Davis serves as Co-Director and Lead Researcher for the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Contemporary Culture (ERCC) research group. Previously, he directed the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2010. His research specializations encompass the interplay between media and public culture, focusing on digital platforms and the culture wars, online anti-publics and the mainstreaming of extremism, soft nationalism and cyber-nationalism, Australian digital literary cultures and taste-making, changing media ecologies and the cultural politics of gatekeeping and disintermediation, Australian public culture, media representations of young people, and the global book publishing industry amid the transition from print capitalism to platform capitalism. He leads projects investigating post-digital literary cultures, the destabilization of the literary-print field by digital media, and online anti-publics including alt-right, neo-reactionary groups, anti-vaccination groups, anti-climate-science groups, and white nationalist communities that oppose democratic, scientific, and enlightenment principles.