Stuart Cunningham

Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Communications, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) and a ministerial appointment to the Library Board of Queensland. Professor Cunningham was an appointed member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts 2005-07, and Chair of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of that College, 2007; Treasurer and Executive Member of Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2002-06; and Node Convenor, Cultural Technologies, for the ARC Cultural Research Network, 2004-06. He was Foundation Chair of QPIX, Queensland’s Screen Resource Centre, 1997-2005 and a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission, 1992-98. In 2003 he received the Centenary Medal for services to the humanities in Australia.

Professor Cunningham is well known for his contributions to media, communications and cultural studies and highlighting their relevance to industry practice and government policy. His books include Featuring Australia (1991), a study of the career of pioneering Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, and Framing Culture (1992), an influential critique of the limits of cultural studies as applied to cultural policy. With Toby Miller, he wrote Contemporary Australian Television (1993). He co-wrote or co-edited a number of studies of the global dimensions of audiovisual culture with John Sinclair and Elizabeth Jacka: New Patterns in Global Television (1996), Australian Television and International Mediascapes (1996), and Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas (2001). He co-edited two textbooks with Graeme Turner, The Australian TV Book (2001) and The Media and Communications in Australia (2006), which has gone into four editions and is the standard text in the field. He has authored or co-authored several major reports, over 60 book chapters and over 80 journal articles. His latest publications include What price a creative economy? (2006) and a forthcoming collection of essays, In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy (2008).

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