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

My research focuses on developments in social and new media technologies and their effects on art, culture, and everyday life, and my publications include scholarly and non-scholarly works covering a range of topics in media and cultural studies. I completed my PhD at RMIT University in 2024 with a thesis titled “Performing the Self: Parafictional Persona and the Comedian Comedy,” which examines historical and contemporary examples of comedians playing themselves across various forms of live and mediated performance.

I am co-director of Screen Inquisition, co-founder of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective, and a former editor of Senses of Cinema and The Essential (RIP). I teach into the Cinema Studies and Popular Culture streams of RMIT’s Media program, and 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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