Dr. Djoymi Baker
Lecturer
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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djoymi.baker@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-1618-3775
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
About
Dr Djoymi Baker is a Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the School of Media & Communication.
She formerly worked in the Australian television industry. Her research examines film and television genres; children's screen cultures; myth in popular culture; stardom; and the ethics of representing the non-human on screen, from animals to aliens.
Djoymi is the author of To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (IB Tauris 2018) and the co-author of The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (Rowman & Littlefield 2014), and Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing (Routledge 2023). Her work can be found in leading journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Celebrity Studies, and Studies in Documentary Film.
Industry experience:
Chief Investigator for Australian Children's Television Cultures, (https://www.actcresearch.com/) a Swinburne University project in collaboration with RMIT University, funded by the Australian Children's Television Foundation (https://actf.com.au/).
Regular television reviewer for ABC Radio and film and television commentator.
Previously worked in the Australian television industry.
She formerly worked in the Australian television industry. Her research examines film and television genres; children's screen cultures; myth in popular culture; stardom; and the ethics of representing the non-human on screen, from animals to aliens.
Djoymi is the author of To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (IB Tauris 2018) and the co-author of The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (Rowman & Littlefield 2014), and Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing (Routledge 2023). Her work can be found in leading journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Celebrity Studies, and Studies in Documentary Film.
Industry experience:
Chief Investigator for Australian Children's Television Cultures, (https://www.actcresearch.com/) a Swinburne University project in collaboration with RMIT University, funded by the Australian Children's Television Foundation (https://actf.com.au/).
Regular television reviewer for ABC Radio and film and television commentator.
Previously worked in the Australian television industry.
Supervisor projects
- Gen Z Television Makeovers: Postfeminist Teenage Dramas and Their Fourth-Wave Feminist Reboots
- 3 Jul 2024
- Child performance and child audiences in the 20th century American Family Sitcom
- 14 Nov 2023
- How Australian Netflix and Stan 'Original' films relate to, reconfigure, and/or recontextualise the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic paradigms of Australian national cinema
- 3 Jul 2023
- Generating (Dis)Comfort: A focussed exploration into the in-between and the generation of powerful audience experiences in screen media
- 19 Jun 2023
- A Cross To 'Bare': An Investigation into Nunsploitation Cinema
- 28 Feb 2023
- Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema
- 18 Jan 2023
- The Social Alien: Otherness and Identity Exploration Within Doctor Who Fandom
- 1 Jan 2022
Research interests
Film, Television and Digital Media, Communication and Media Studies
