Dr Steven Maras

Dr Steven Maras

BA Curtin University
Hons Murdoch University
PhD (Communication Studies) Murdoch University

 

Phone

+61 2 9036 7041

Address

Room 209
Reception, Level 2
Footbridge Theatre Terrace
Access adjacent to Footbridge Theatre and Footbridge over Parramatta Road
A09a - Footbridge Theatre

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Steven joined the Media and Communications department in 2005 after ten years teaching at the University of Western Sydney. A graduate of Curtin University in Western Australia (1988), he studied Honours at Murdoch University, and received his PhD in Communication Studies from Murdoch University (1994). He has published articles and essays in numerous journals in Australia and internationally, and is on the editorial advisory board of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and the Journal of Screenwriting. Steven has strong interests in both teaching and research, and is a firm believer in the possibility of a productive dialogue between scholarly and intellectual work and media practice and industries. He is author of Screenwriting: History, Theory, Practice, Wallflower Press, 2009. He has a special interest in critical media literacies and the relationship of theory and practice; video production; how we understand and theorise communication; and all those aspects of media and communications that makes it such a fascinating area today.

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of communications
  • Communication and media studies
  • Conceptual practice and media production/education
  • The theory, history and practice of screen writing
  • Critical communications and media practice, pedagogy and media literacy
  • Historical research on the emergence of communication studies in Australia.

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