DrSusan Potter
Associate Dean, External Engagement
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Associate Dean, External EngagementFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
SERVICE & LEADERSHIP SUMMARy
University
- Inaugural Associate Dean, External Engagement, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2025-27
- Advisory Board member, Sydney Centre for Health Societies, Faculty of Arts and Social Science Flagship Research Centre
- Inaugural Academic Leader, External Engagement, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2023-25
- Inaugural Chair, Film Studies, School of Art, Communication and English, 2022-23
- Academic Board member, 2022-23
- Film Studies Program Director, Department of Art History, School of Literature, Art and Media, 2022-23
- Department of Art History Undergraduate Curriculum Co-ordinator, 2019-2022
Discipline
- Editor, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 2022-24
- Past President, Women and Film History International (WFHI, governance organisation for the biennial Women and the Silent Screen international conference) 2019-22; President 2018-19; Elected Co-President 2015-17; Elected Co-Executive Secretary 2013-15
- General Secretary, Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2019–2022
SERVICE & LEADERSHIP
- AWARDS AND PRIZESJohn Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-authored or Edited Book in LGBTG Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA)1 Jan 2020
- OFFICE HELD1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jan 2022
- OFFICE HELD1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jan 2021
- RECOGNITIONAustralian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy for Queer TimingThe Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema (University of Illinois Press)1 Jan 2018
- AWARDS AND PRIZESScreen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) Best Paper Prize for 'Valentino's LesbianismStardom, Spectatorship, and Sexuality in 1920s Hollywood Cinema' published in FrameworkThe Journal of Cinema and Media1 Jan 2015
- AWARDS AND PRIZESDame Joan Metge Post-Doctoral Research Award, Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust1 Jan 2013
- AWARDS AND PRIZESVice Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis, University of Auckland1 Jan 2013
- AWARDS AND PRIZESDocNZ Best New Zealand Short Documentary Award for An Ordinary Person1 Jan 2009
- MEMBERSHIPSociety for Cinema and Media Studies
- MEMBERSHIPWomen and Film History International
