Hello, I’m Bradley J. Dixon. I’m a writer, critic, and media scholar working on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne, Australia.

My research focuses on developments in social and new media technologies and their effects on art, culture, and everyday life. I recently completed my PhD with a thesis titled “Performing the Self: Parafictional Persona and the Comedian Comedy,” which examines historical and contemporary examples of comedians playing themselves across television, film, web series, and social media performance. My publications include scholarly and non-scholarly works covering a range of topics in media and cultural studies. I am co-director of Screen Inquisition, a founding member of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective, and a former editor of Senses of Cinema and The Essential (RIP).

I also teach into the Cinema Studies and Popular Culture streams of RMIT’s Media program. In 2024 and 2025 I led the undergraduate media studio Beyond a Joke, Beyond a Genre, which challenges students to explore comedy as a mode within (and beyond) genre, form, and media.

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