UNSW Professor makes a fine Fellow
12th December 2006
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| Professor James Donald |
UNSW’s Professor James Donald has been inducted into the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
The Academy was formed in 1969 to advance the interests of the humanities in Australia. Fellows elected to the Academy are residents of Australia who have achieved the highest distinction in scholarship in the humanities.
Professor Donald is Professor of Film and Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His work has been highly influential over a number of years in establishing and developing a distinctive research stream in cultural and film studies.
“It is of course a great compliment to join a number of distinguished UNSW scholars already in the Academy,” Professor Donald said. “I think I am the first UNSW academic from the so-called ‘New Humanities’, which I take as a tribute to the University's growing esteem in areas like film and media.”
Prior to joining UNSW, Professor Donald was a Reader in Media Studies at Sussex. He was editor of Screen Education in the 1970s and founding editor of New Formations in the 1980s. His works include Imagining the Modern City, a key text for studies of modernity and the city, and Sentimental Education. He has also edited a number of anthologies, including Fantasy and the Cinema; ‘Race’, Culture and Difference; and Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism.
The Academy was formed in 1969 to advance the interests of the humanities in Australia. Fellows elected to the Academy are residents of Australia who have achieved the highest distinction in scholarship in the humanities.
Professor Donald is Professor of Film and Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His work has been highly influential over a number of years in establishing and developing a distinctive research stream in cultural and film studies.
“It is of course a great compliment to join a number of distinguished UNSW scholars already in the Academy,” Professor Donald said. “I think I am the first UNSW academic from the so-called ‘New Humanities’, which I take as a tribute to the University's growing esteem in areas like film and media.”
Prior to joining UNSW, Professor Donald was a Reader in Media Studies at Sussex. He was editor of Screen Education in the 1970s and founding editor of New Formations in the 1980s. His works include Imagining the Modern City, a key text for studies of modernity and the city, and Sentimental Education. He has also edited a number of anthologies, including Fantasy and the Cinema; ‘Race’, Culture and Difference; and Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism.
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