Sean Cubitt#
| Membership Number: | 4082 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 – Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne
- 2020 - 2025 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
- Film
- Media art history
- Video
- Experimental media
- Digital aesthetics
- Ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2024-2027 Advisory Board, EcoFilmLab: Eco-Critical Thinking in Cinema, University of Warsaw and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
- 2022 Steering Committee, Society for Media Art, Science and Technology
- 2021 - 2005 Editorial council, Media Art 21 (MA21): Practices, Reflections and Pedagogies of Global Media Art Since 2000 international database encyclopedia project
- 2020 Assessor, Australia Research Council
- 2014 - 2017 LUX Board of Directors
- 2012 Member, Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
- 2011 Communication Sciences panel, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal 2009 – 2024 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
- 2006 - Advisory Board, Media Art History
- 2005 - 2011 Assessor, Australia Research Council
- 2005 - 2025 Editor in Chief, Leonardo book series, MIT Press
- 2002 - Honorary Professor, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland
