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 a PhD at RMIT University with a thesis titled “Performing the Self: Parafictional Persona and the Comedian Comedy,” which examines several 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 and a founding member of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective.

I also teach into the Cinema Studies and Popular Culture streams of RMIT’s Media program. I recently led the media studio Beyond a Joke, Beyond a Genre, which produced five short films exploring comedy as a mode within (and beyond) genre, form, and media.

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