Dr Phoebe Macrossan | UniSC | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Dr Phoebe Macrossan has a Bachelor of Journalism/Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies) from the University of Queensland, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Film)(Hons) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) (Film, Television, New Media) from the University of New South Wales. Her research interests are popular music on screen, including film, television and digital screen media, as well as celebrity culture and film genre studies. Her areas of expertise are screen genres, popular music on screen and celebrity culture.

Dr Macrossan is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and the Screen Media Study Area Coordinator at UniSC. She has taught students in media, film and screen studies since 2013 and encourages them to think historically, theoretically, and analytically about film and media. She was the Postgraduate Executive Member for the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ) between 2016 and 2018 and is a co-founder and former President of the Sydney Screen Studies Network (SSSN).

Her research has been published in leading media studies and popular culture journals, including Creative Industries Journal, Journal of Popular Culture and Popular Music. She has published research on a range of topics including contemporary American screensong, jukebox musical Across the Universe, musical television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Nashville and Glee, as well as Beyonce’s visual albums. Dr Macrossan was a researcher on the project Independent Screen Production on the Gold Coast (2020) commissioned by the Gold Coast City Council to examine the size, capacity and structure of the screen production workforce and ecology on the Gold Coast. She has also co-edited a special issue on television creator Ryan Murphy and is currently working on two book projects; one on the forgotten history of the Australian film musical and the other on the utopian modalities of contemporary screensong.