Associate Professor Jane Mills

Associate Professor Jane Mills

Honorary Associate Professor

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Kent-at-Canterbury; Ph.D. University of Western Sydney

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media

Before coming to Australia in 1995 I was a Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University where I was Course Director for the Masters degree in Documentary in the Northern Media School. Prior to that I was: Head of Producing at the National Film & Television School; Founder Director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Series Producer for a radical science series at Central Television (for Channel 4); Head Production at Granada Television as well as researcher on the inves...

Phone
+61 2 9385 8529
E-mail
jane.mills@unsw.edu.au
Location
231V, Level 2 Robert Webster

Associate Editor: fusion, a peer-reviewed, open access, online international journal for the communication, creative industries and media arts disciplines. http://www.fusion-journal.com, opens in a new window 

I recently edited the ‘Pasolini Dossier’ for Framework: The Journal for Film & Media.  I am a member of the Film Advisory Panel for the Sydney Film Festival, a Programmer for the Antenna Documentary Festival, a frequent speaker for the Cinema Reborn Film Festival and a Member of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Technical Advisory Group for Visual Arts and Photographic Media Arts.

At recent Sydney Film Festivals I have introduced the films screening in the retrospectives for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and Fred Wiseman, and have  introduced and interviewed numerous guest directors. I have been a judge for the ATOM film Awards, the Sydney Underground Film Festival and for the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia awards.

My Teaching

I have taught, supervised and examined undergraduate and postgraduate subjects and courses in film, media, screen and communication across a range of fields including documentary, social media, visual communication and other interrelated moving image, media and communication disciplines.

As an advisor, I compiled the Reader for the undergraduate 4th year specialisation in Cineliteracy for the Japanese Institute of Moving Images introduced in 2013.

In my previous position as Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication & Creative Industries at Charles Sturt University (2009-2012), I was the Honours and Postgraduate Coordinator, taking a special interest in developing the professional practice research doctorate whose students I taught and supervised.

At UNSW, my HDR students are studying a range of screen topics that include: the education/entertainment nexusof contemporary television; feature film soundscapes; challenges to conventional patterns of film distribution and exibition; feminist reperesentation in TV animation series; sex,gender and power in the postfeminist romantic comedy feature film; the cultual inmpacts of Film Distribution; The fragmented self revealed through supernatural manifestations in Female Gothic cinema.