Blythe Worthy

Blythe Worthy is a casual academic in the Film Studies department at the University of Sydney and works predominantly in the fields of transnational television and adaptation theory. Blythe has had their work published by the University of California Press, Edinburgh University Press, Springer, and Rowman and Littlefield.

Blythe is the co-editor of a new collection with Palgrave Macmillan titled Adapting Television and Literature and is the Managing Editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies. For their research on Antipodean auteur Jane Campion, Blythe was awarded the 2019 Australian Federation of Graduate Women National Fellowship. Blythe has worked in research for SBS and ABC television, and regularly lectures on television at the United States Studies Centre and NYU Sydney. Blythe is currently researching the television work of auteurs Mira Nair and Agnès Varda, as well as the impact of the #MeToo movement on American television. Blythe is one of four 2024 Paris Residency Fellows at La Cité internationale des arts, provided by the Power Institute.