Catharine Lumby
Professor Catharine Lumby is an Australian academic, author and journalist, currently Professor of Media in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.
Career[]
Prior to Lumby's move to academia, she was a feature writer and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, a news writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a columnist and senior writer at The Bulletin. She was the foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney (1999-2007) and the foundation Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (2008-2013). She joined Macquarie University in 2013 as Professor of Media.[1]
Since 2004 she has been a pro bono gender adviser to the National Rugby League (NRL). In 2017 she almost resigned from the role, disappointed by the lack of off-field behaviour change of NRL players towards women, highlighting continued disrespect.[2]
In 2013 Lumby was appointed by Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts, to the Council of the National Museum of Australia. She was re-appointed for a further three-year term in May 2016.[3]
Lumby wrote the foreword to End Rape on Campus Australia's report, Connecting the dots: Understanding sexual assault in university communities, submitted to the Australian Human Rights Commission in January 2017.[4]
Lumby is a contributor to The Guardian on gender issues.[5] She is a Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Cultural Studies[6] and the Feminist Media Studies journal.[7]
Lumby has now[when?] started her own consulting firm advising to sporting codes, education institutions, government departments and business in the areas of #metoo, gender and sexual discrimination, social media policies, and harassment and bullying in the workspace.[citation needed]
Publications[]
As author[]
- Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s, Allen & Unwin, 1997, ISBN 1864480769
- Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World, Allen & Unwin, 1999, ISBN 186508073X
- Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider, Craftman's House, 2000, ISBN 905703042X
- Why TV Is Good for Kids: Raising 21st Century Children, co-authored with Duncan Fine, Pan Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 9781405037242
- The Porn Report, co-authored with Alan McKee and Kath Albury, Melbourne University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780522853407
- Alvin Purple, about the 1973 comedy film, Alvin Purple, for the Australian Screen Classic Series, Currency Press, 2008, ISBN 9780868198446
As editor[]
- Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, co-edited with Elspeth Probyn, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780511187100
As contributor[]
Lumby has contributed chapters to a number of books, including:
- "Generation Panics: Age, Knowledge and Cultural Power in a New Media Era", in Culture in Australia : Policies, Publics and Programs, edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001, ISBN 9780521004039
- "The President's Penis : Entertaining Sex and Power", in Our Monica, Ourselves : The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan, New York University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780814739280
- "Inside Out: Journalism in the University, Intellectuals in the Media", in Consent and Consensus : Politics, Media and Governance in Twentieth Century Australia, edited by Denis Cryle and Jean Hillier, Australia Research Institute, 2005, ISBN 1920845127
- "Media Ethics", in The Media and Communications in Australia, edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin, 2006, ISBN 1741148227
- "Past the Post in Feminist Media Studies", in Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies, edited by Lisa McLaughlin and Cynthia Carter, Routledge, 2013, ISBN 9780415540117
- "Policing The Crisis Of Masculinity: Media And Masculinity At The Dawn Of The New Century", in The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender, edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Lisa McLaughlin, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, ISBN 9781138849129
Awards and honours[]
- Harkness Fellowship, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1994–96
- Presented the 2004 Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture[8]
- Vice Chancellor’s Senior Leadership Award, University of New South Wales, 2012
References[]
- ^ "Professor Catharine Lumby". Macquarie University. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ Halloran, Jessica (15 July 2017). "NRL gender adviser Catharine Lumby pushed to the brink over 'hush money' furore". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "The Museum's Council". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Report - 'Connecting the dots: Understanding sexual assault in university communities'". EROC Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "Catharine Lumby". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "International Board, International Journal of Cultural Studies". Sage Publishing. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Editorial Board, Feminist Media Studies". Taylor & Francis Online. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Lecture series archive". Manning Clark House. 28 October 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
External links[]
- Living people
- Australian women journalists
- Macquarie University faculty
- Gender studies academics