Professor and Research Chair in New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Deakin University
Professor Marshall is the world-leading scholar in the study of public personality systems which includes political, economic and cultural leadership and celebrity culture. Along with many articles and book chapters, Professor Marshall’s books include Persona Studies: An Introduction (2020), Advertising and Promotional Cultures: Case Histories (Palgrave, 2018), Celebrity and Power (Minnesota, 2nd edition 2014), Celebrity Persona Pandemic (Minnesota, 2016), New Media Cultures (Oxford Arnold, 2004), Web Theory (2003) and Fame Games (Cambridge, 2000). His edited or co-edited books include A Companion to Celebrity (Blackwell-Wiley, 2016), Contemporary Publics (Palgrave, 2016), and The Celebrity Culture Reader (Routledge, 2006). His current research has focussed on the concept of persona and the now associated sub-field of Persona Studies which investigates the strategic construction of the public display of the self, both in its online forms and in other transforming contexts. His forthcoming research and publications include: the General Editor of the 6-volume Cultural History of Fame (for Bloomsbury Academic), the co-authored), and the future book Emotion in Online Culture (McGill Queens University Press, 2021/2). His expertise has led to interviews published in many newspapers including the New York Times, Globe and Mail and the Sydney Morning Herald as well as appearances on other legacy media including the BBC, CNN, Fox News, the ABC and many other media outlets around the world. Professor Marshall has also appeared in the recent documentary film about celebrity called Big in Japan (2017). Along with occasionally publishing more journalistic articles and other media, he maintains a very intermittent personal blog at www.pdavidmarshall.com
Experience
2009–present
Professor and Personal Chair in New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Deakin University
2007–2009
Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Communication, University of Wollongong
2001–2008
Professor and Department Chair in Communication Studies, Northeastern University
1993–2000
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Queensland
Education
1993
McGill University , Ph. D.
1986
Simon Fraser University, MA
1981
University of Western Ontario, Hon. BA
Publications
2020
Persona Studies: An Introduction, Wiley Blackwell
2020
Celebrity, Politics and New Media: An Essay on the Implications of Pandemic Fame and Persona, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
2016
Political Persona 2016: An Introduction, Persona Studies
2016
Celebrity Persona Pandemic, University of Minnesota Press
2016
Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan
2016
A Companion To Celebrity, Wiley Blackwell
2015
Persona Studies: mapping the proliferation of the public self, Journalism. 15(2), pp. 153-170
2015
Understanding the emerging contemporary public intellectual: Online academic persona and the conversation , Media International Australia
2015
Monitoring Persona: mediatized identity and the edited public self, , Frame: Journal of Literary Studies. 28.1 May: 115-133
2014
Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture , University of Minnesota Press
2012
The Academic Online: Constructing Persona through the World Wide Web, First Monday. 17:9, 3 September
2010
The Specular Economy: Celebrity, two-way mirrors and the personalization of renown, Society. Vol. 47:6, November, pp. 498-502
2010
The promotion and presentation of the self: celebrity as marker of presentational media, , Celebrity Studies, Vol.1: 1, March, pp. 35-48