Our people

Kathryn Millard is a writer (scripts, essays, nonfiction), interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker with a passion for big ideas. Her films are internationally recognised and much awarded.  Kathryn's  body of work as a filmmaker spans documentary, drama and hybrids. They include The Bystander Story (2021), Experiment 20 (2018), Shock Room (2015),...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Julian Knowles is an academic specialising in the creative applications of new and emerging technologies and an expert in practice-led research. His research spans the fields of media arts, music, sound design and experimental media. He holds degrees in Music (Hons Class 1) from the University of Sydney, where his...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Iqbal Barkat wrote his PhD on novelty in cinema, tracing the history through from the work of Dziga Vertov, a pioneering film-maker in the early Soviet Union. As part of his research he has produced the independent feature film Mortars, which seeks to explore what Robert Koehler calls the 'cinema of in-between-ness' -...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Jon Burtt is an artist, teacher, and scholar working across dance, theatre, and circus studies in the performing arts and entertainment industries. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature (MCCALL) at Macquarie University in Sydney. In 2016 he was recognized with...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Peter Doyle is an author of fiction and non-fiction books. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD from Macquarie University. He is a musician with a long association with the Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes. He is also a (sometimes) exhibiting visual...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Julie-Anne is an award winning dance artist and academic. She holds a PhD from the UNSW titled ‘Walking in Sydney Looking for Dancing: an auto-ethnographic mapping of the place of independent dance’ (2010) and an MA (Hons) in Performance UWS Nepean ‘The Leisure Mistress Dances: an investigation of a practice where...View full profile in our Researcher's database

  PhD in Media Studies, Macquarie University, 1999 Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney, 1987 Bachelor of Arts, Honours (First Class), University of Sydney, 1985...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Associate Professor Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits screen productions. She researches creative practice, distributed cognition and feminist film histories.  Karen is a deputy director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre with a portfolio in Creative Practice and Screen Culture.  Karen Pearlman’s trilogy of short films about historical women editors...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Professor Joseph Pugliese, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. KEY RESEARCH AREAS: Social justice-understood in the most expansive sense so that it includes the more-than-human world, is the superordinate term that encompasses my research. Under this meta-rubric, my key fields of research are: colonialism...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Biography Kate Rossmanith is an ethnographer, a writer, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She co-leads a program of research on the role that imagination plays in knowledge-making and world-building. She researches narrative and emotion-concepts in legal processes, as well as methods and forms of writing. She will be...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Jane Simon researches and teaches in visual cultural studies, film studies and photography. Jane has published articles on amateur and experimental film, photography, artist's books and modes of writing about visual culture. Jane also specialises in photographic media and artists' books. Her artists' books are in international public collections...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am teacher, theatre maker and award winning academic. I am widely published in the areas of actor training, inidgenous theatre practice, inter-cultural performance and cummunity cultural arts. I have recently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Macquarie University on First Nations rehearsal practices in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. I...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Wade Marynowsky is an inter-disciplinary artist and researcher who works across robotics, immersive and interactive installation, performance, music and video. His practice typically draws on technology and programmed structures to create works that straddle humour, high-camp and a host of unnerving thematic orientations to absorbing effect. Read more

Guy Morrow is a lecturer who brokers artistic creativity through research-led teaching, as well as via music, design and innovation consulting. He founded a music business unit of study at Macquarie University and was also one of the two founding managers of ARIA number one band, Boy & Bear, and Pitchfork 'Best New Track' trio Movement. Read more

Tom Murray is a screen research academic within MMCCS. His research provides a forum for non-indigenous understanding of indigenous cultural and political perspectives. His research utilises visual anthropology-based research techniques to investigate historical and contemporary representations of 'otherness', particularly with respect to indigenous communities and individuals. Some of his recent research has also applied these techniques to non-indigenous urban Australian communities. Read more

Undine Sellbach's work brings together feminist science studies, cultural studies, philosophy, art, performance and creative writing, to ask how our ecological and technological entanglements come to matter in a shared world. She is currently editing The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (with Lynn Turner and Ron Broglio) and writing a book on the Entomological Imagination (with Stephen Loo) for Palgrave's "Performance Philosophy" series. Read more

Since joining Macquarie University in 2002, Catherine Simpson has convened, designed and taught across 15 units from first year to Honours in the disciplines of media, gender, cultural studies, film studies, Australian studies, environmental media and, most recently, science communication. Catherine returned to MMCCS in 2013 from a 3-year stint in the Department of Environment & Geography (Science Faculty) where she piloted a science communication program with Tim Flannery.

As an independent radio documentary producer Helene Thomas is interested in telling stories that appeal to our shared humanity. She has developed a practice that she calls culturally responsive journalism, based on her experience over the past six years telling stories in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Read more