Professor Barbara Creed
Professor, Screen Studies
Head of the School of Culture and Communication
Qualifications
MA, PhD (La Trobe), BA, Dip Ed (Monash)
Biography
Barbara Creed is a graduate of Monash and La Trobe Universities. Her doctoral thesis was on the cinema of horror, feminism and psychoanalysis. This was published as The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993) and has been republished five times. Her areas of research include contemporary film, surrealism, feminist and psychoanalytic theory and the impact of Darwinian theory on the cinema. She has recently published Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Allen & Unwin, 2003) and Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny (MUP, 2005). She is currently writing a new book entitled The Darwinian Screen: the Evolution of Film Theory. She has also co-edited the anthologies Body Trade (2001) and Don't Shoot Darling (1987). Her articles have been translated into various foreign languages including Swedish, Italian, Russian, Japanese and German. She has been invited to speak at the Universities of Oxford, Paris, UCLA, Frankfurt, Lancaster, Hawaii, Hanoi and the Freud Institute, London.
She is on a number of international editorial boards and acts as a Reader for various international publishing houses and journals. She is an international assessor for the Australian Research Council. Barbara is an active figure in the film community as a film reviewer, speaker and writer. She has served on the Boards of Writers Week, the Melbourne International Film Festival and the VCA School of Film and Television.
Publications
Books
- Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne University Press, 2005.
- Pandora's Box: Essays in Film Theory UNSW Press, 2003.
- Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality, Allen & Unwin, 2003.
- The Monstrous - Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge,1993.
Edited books
- Barbara Creed & Jeanette Hoorn, Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Pluto Press & Routledge, 2001.
- Barbara Creed, Annette Blonski & Freda Freiberg Don't Shoot Darling! Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia, Greenhouse Publications, 1987.
Book chapters (from 2002)
- ''Surrealism and Popular Film', in Graeme Harper & Robert Stone (eds), The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film, Wallflower Press, London & New York: (Formally accepted, In press 2006).
- 'Freud's Worst Nightmare: Dining out with Dr Hannibal Lecter' in Steven Jay Schneider (ed), The Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare, Cambridge University Press, New York: pp. 188-202 (2004).
Journal articles (from 2002)
- 'A Darwinian Love Story: Max Mon Amour and the Zoocentric Perspective in Film', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol, 20, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 45-60.
- 'The End of the Everyday: Transformation, Sexuality and the Uncanny', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 483-494 (2005)
- CREED, B.A., HOORN, J.J. HIRST, D. 'Analysis of Australian Film On-Line -Charles Chauvel's Jedda, Winds of Change vol. 2, eds Andy Williamson, Cathy Gunn, et. al., ASCILITE, UNITEC, Institute of Technology, Auckland, pp. 815-818, 2002, (35% contribution).
Other publications (from 2002)
- 'Baby Bitches From Hell' in Mixed-up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, pp. 33-41 (2005).
- 'Breeding out the Black: Jedda and the Stolen generations in Australia'. Translated into Italian for Sguardi Australiani, ed. S. Tuccio, Le Mani, Genova: pp. 15-36 (2005).
- 'Tracing Emotions' State of the Arts, State of the Arts Publications, pp. 58-60 (March 2004).
- 'Susan Norrie' in On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, pp. 158-9 (2004).
- 'Screen' Encyclopedia of British Film, ed. Brian McFarlane, Methuen (2003).
Recent presentations (from 2002)
- 2006: 'I've Been Here Before! Déjà vu and the Cinema'. Antithesis Conference, Uni of Melbourne, Keynote.
- 2006: 'The New Heroine in Nineties Cinema', NOWSA Conference, University of Melbourne, Keynote.
- 2006: 'The Vamp in Film', Australia Talks Back, Radio National.
- 2005: 'Kiss of the Beast', Australian Cinèmathéque, Art Gallery, Queensland. Keynote
- 2005: 'The Monstrous Child in Film', Auckland University. Keynote
- 2005: 'The Uncanny and the Everyday', Melbourne Writer's Festival
- 2005: Far From Heaven, day seminar, Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
- 2005: Interviewed for German feature documentary on the horror film.
- 2005: 'Jedda & The Stolen Generations', paper for Associazione Lacunae, Rome.
- 2005: Interviewed on 'Jedda & the Stolen generations' for Il Manifesto, June, Rome.
- 2005: Interview 'Women Directors': International Women's Day Programme, 3CR.
- 2005: The Deep End with Sian Prior, 'Kiss of the Beast Exhibition, Brisbane, ABC Radio.
- 2005: 'Peter Jackson's King Kong', ABC Radio, Brisbane.
- 2005: 'The Pleasure of Horror', Morning Programme with Ingrid Just, ABC Radio.
- 2005: 'The Meaning of Fear', Hack program with Kaitlyn Sawrey, Triple J..
- 2004: 'Everyday Transformations Conference' Cultural Studies, Plenary Panel, Uni of WA
- 2004: 'Australian Cinema', Uni of Delaware Visiting Students, Trinity College, Uni of Melbourne.
- 2004: 'Cinema Studies Pedagogy and Curriculum', University of Hanoi.
- 2004: 'The Darwinian Screen', Humanities Research Centre, ANU.
- 2003: 'Film, Modernity and the Uncanny', Film Department, University California, at Riverside.
- 2003: 'Film Noir for the classroom'. ACMI, Federation Square.
- 2003: Interviews on Media Matrix, Melbourne, ABC Radio.
- 2003: Interview on Media Matrix, Auckland, National Radio.
- 2003: 'Susan Norrie & The Political Uncanny', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Keynote.
- 2003: 'Film and the Labyrinth' ACCA seminar series, ACMI, Federation Square.
- 2002: 'Darwinian Beasts on Screen' Future Sex Series, Macquarie University. Keynote.
- 2002: 'The House, Horror & Haunting', Melbourne Festival, Storey Hall, RMIT, 26 Oct.
Recent grants and awards (from 2002)
- 2006: Discovery Grant with Assoc Prof J. Hoorn, The Darwinian Screen.
- 2004: Visiting Fellowship: Humanities Research Centre, ANU: The Darwinian Screen.
- 2005: Invited to present 90 minute original commentary for Russian Ark, DVD English Version.
Other information
- 2006: Invited to take part in New York & London Video Installation with artist Christian Jankowski.
- 2005: Judge, Kate Challis Raka Award for Indigenous Filmmakers, University of Melbourne.
- 2005: Invited to present 90 minute original commentary for Russian Ark, DVD English Version.