Rate My Professor Dino Murtic

Dr. Dino Murtic is a Lecturer at Education Futures within Adelaide University, where he specializes in teaching courses related to secondary and enabling education. His current teaching responsibilities include Developing Academic Skills (EDUC 1114), Asia Literacy and the Asian Century (EDUC 2096), Tertiary Learning Strategies (SSK 10), and Communication for Professional Practice (BUSS 1075), scheduled for 2024 and 2025. Murtic is actively researching innovative pedagogical strategies aimed at enhancing critical thinking, text comprehension, and socially engaged artistic practices among students in higher education settings. He is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD candidates as a co-supervisor and is available for media commentary on relevant topics.

Murtic has established himself as a scholar bridging cultural studies, film analysis, and educational pedagogy through a series of key publications. His monograph, Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Towards a Cosmopolitan Imagining (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), offers in-depth examinations of post-Yugoslav films, featuring chapters such as 'Roma: The Other in the Other,' 'Women Speak after the War,' 'Once Upon a Time in Sarajevo,' 'Ordinary Men at War,' 'An Historical Fable of a Country That Is No More,' 'Theoretical and Methodological Considerations,' and 'Conclusion: Sarajevo and One Illusion in August.' In 2020, he contributed the chapter 'An ordinary warrior and his inevitable defeat: representation in post-Yugoslav cinema' to European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres (Palgrave Macmillan). More recent contributions include 'Overcoming students' annoyance with the annotated bibliography and other tales relevant to a core academic literacy course' and co-authorship of 'Toward a theory of critical enabling pedagogy for Australian higher education,' both published in Enabling Pedagogy and Action Research in Higher Education (DIO Press Inc., 2024). Earlier, Murtic co-edited the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA, 2008) with J. Cook and S. Luckman. He has also presented conference papers, including 'Promoting retention through a second chance at assessment' at the STARS conference (2021) and 'Towards a humanitarian cosmopolitanism' at CSAA (2008), focusing on student engagement and cultural theory.