ANGELA NDALIANIS
Ndalianis, Angela
Professor and Centre Director
Swinburne University of Technology
Faculty of Health, Arts & Design
School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Dept. of Media and Communication
Applied Sciences Building AS420 Faculty of Health
Hawthorn Campus
John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 3122
Angela Ndalianis is Research Professor in Media and Entertainment and Co-director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on entertainment media histories; media convergence; and the baroque as a transcultural and transhistorical phenomenon. Her current research explores the important role played by entertainment culture in the advancement of robotics and automata. Her publications include Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (MIT Press 2004), Science Fiction Experiences (2010), The Horror Sensorium; Media and the Senses (2012) and the edited books The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero (editor, 2009), Neo baroques: From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster (2016, co-edited), and Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives (Routledge, 2017, co-edited). She has published numerous essays in refereed journals and anthologies and is currently working on three books: Batman: Myth and Superhero; Robots and Entertainment Culture; and Experiencing Space: Sensory Encounters from Baroque Rome to Neo-Baroque LasVegas (with Dr. Lisa Beaven, La Trobe University).
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