Rate My Professor Chris Healy

Professor Chris Healy is Professor of Screen and Cultural Studies in the School of Culture and Communication within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD and Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Melbourne, along with a Master's degree involving both coursework and research from the University of Birmingham. Healy has researched and published extensively on the intersections between historical and cultural studies for over two decades, focusing on areas such as social memory, historical justice, Indigenous film and television, television heritage, memory, and historicity, as well as environmental representations in documentary film and television. His scholarly contributions include leading Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects, including 'Contemporary Indigenous Film and Television: New Frames of Understanding,' 'Social Memory and Historical Justice: How Democratic Societies Remember and Forget the Victimisation of Minorities in the Past,' and 'Remaking the Australian Environment through Documentary Film and Television.' These projects examine how media shapes cultural memory, Indigenous storytelling, and environmental narratives in Australia.

Healy's career at the University of Melbourne includes progression from Associate Professor to full Professor, alongside administrative roles such as Deputy Associate Dean for Sustainability in the Faculty of Arts. He serves on the advisory board of the Australian Centre and is the academic lead for the Melbourne-Potsdam Minor Cosmopolitanisms Joint PhD program. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), Healy has made significant editorial contributions as co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies Review from 2002 to 2006 and beyond. Key publications include the monograph Forgetting Aborigines (2008), co-edited volumes Assembling Culture (2011) with Tony Bennett, Beasts of Suburbia: Reinterpreting Cultures in Australian Suburbs (2007), From the Ruins of Colonialism: A History of Social Memory (1997), and South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture (2006). His work has influenced discussions on cultural heritage, decolonial futures, and media's role in historical remembrance, with contributions to scholarly works like Television History: Heritage, Memory and Historicity. Healy's research fosters interdisciplinary dialogues in cultural theory and screen studies.