Rate My Professor Kit Messham Muir

Curtin University

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4.08/20/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

4.05/21/2025

Inspires students to reach new heights.

5.03/31/2025

Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.

4.02/27/2025

Helps students see the value in learning.

5.02/10/2025

Always clear, concise, and insightful.

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Professor Kit Messham-Muir is Professor of Art in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, a position he has held since 2019, following his role as Associate Professor in Art from 2016 to 2019. He earned his PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of New South Wales in 2000, with a thesis titled Toward an Understanding of Affect: Transgression, Abjection and Their Limits in Contemporary Art in the 1990s. Additional qualifications include a Graduate Certificate in the Practice of Tertiary Teaching from the University of Newcastle in 2009 and a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours Class 1 from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, in 1994. His career includes Senior Lecturer in Art History and Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle from 2008 to 2016, Lecturer in Art History there from 2008 to 2011, and various lecturing roles at the University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, and University of New South Wales from 1997 to 2007. Earlier, he served as Program Manager for Western Sydney Arts Strategy at Arts NSW from 2005 to 2007 and Editorial Assistant for the art theory journal Art & Text from 1993 to 1995.