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James Donald is an Emeritus Professor in the Arts, Design & Architecture school at UNSW and was previously the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2007 to 2015. He was appointed Professor of Film Studies in 2003, having previously been a Professor of Media at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. Donald has a rich educational background, having held positions at the School of Education at the Open University and contributing to the establishment of Media Studies at the University of Sussex. In the late 1970s, he was editor of the journal Screen Education and founded New Formations. His writing includes books on modern education and media, with titles such as the Penguin Atlas of Media Information, and he has edited numerous books in the fields of cinema, media, education, and cultural social theory. His current research, supported by an ARC Discovery Grant, focuses on the significance of Black American cultural figures such as Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson within the context of transnational culture and modernism during the World Wars. Donald is also attempting to understand the future of cinema in the twenty-first century.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Emeritus Professor in the School of the Arts and Media.
Curtin University of Technology • Western Australia
Led the Media Studies program.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW • Sydney, Australia
Oversaw the Faculty and guided academic programs.
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