Graeme Turner

Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO is one of the leading figures in cultural and media studies in Australia and internationally. His research has covered a wide range of forms, cultures and media – literature, film, television, radio, popular music, new media, journalism, and popular culture- and he has a long running interest in issues around nation and nationalism in Australia. He has published 28 books with national and international academic presses; the most recent are (with David Rowe and Emma Waterton eds.)Making Culture: Commercialisation, Transnationalism and the State of Nationing in Contemporary Australia (Routledge, 2018), Essays in Media and Cultural Studies: In Transition (Routledge 2020), and John Farnham's Whispering Jack (Bloomsbury, 2022 in press). A past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004-2007), an ARC Federation Fellow (2006-2011), founding Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at UQ (2000-2012), and Convenor of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (2006-2010), Graeme Turner has had considerable engagement with federal research and higher education policy. He has chaired the Humanities and Creative Arts panel for the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) on three occasions for the ARC - the most recent in 2018. He is only the second humanities scholar to serve on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) and the only one to have served two terms. With Kylie Brass, he co-authored the landmark study of the state of the humanities and social sciences in Australia, Mapping HASS (2014). He was awarded an AO in 2019 in recognition of his service to cultural studies, the humanities and higher education research policy.