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Makes even hard topics easy to grasp.
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Sean Cubitt FAHA MAE serves as Professor of Screen Studies and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of nine books and the co-editor of nine others, with research centered on media art history, philosophy of media, ecocritique, aesthetic politics, digital aesthetics, visual technologies, and the environmental implications of digital media. His career includes professorial appointments at Goldsmiths, University of London as Professor of Film and Television, the University of Southampton's Winchester School of Art as Professor of Global Media and Communication, the University of Waikato, and Liverpool John Moores University. Cubitt has also held positions at the universities of Chicago and Harvard, and served as Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He maintains an affiliation as Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee.
Key publications encompass Digital Aesthetics (SAGE Publications, 1998), Timeshift: On Video Culture (Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 1993), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2005), EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005), The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels (MIT Press, 2014), Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (Duke University Press, 2017), Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Truth: Aesthetic Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Cubitt has supervised thirty-six PhD theses to completion on topics including digital arts and media, software studies, media philosophy, games studies, and creative practice models, and has examined sixty-four PhD theses. He serves on the editorial boards of Screen, Cultural Politics, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the MIT Press International Journal of Cultural Politics. Now retired from full-time teaching, he continues research in ecocritique and media history.
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