Rate My Professor Sarah Keith

Dr Sarah Keith is a Senior Lecturer in Media in the School of Communication, Society and Culture within the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where she has been teaching since 2007. Her teaching spans disciplines including media and music, across levels from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate, and encompasses theoretical, practical/production, and creative/performance content. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a PhD in Contemporary Music from Macquarie University, completed in 2010. Since 2018, she has also taught a unit on Korean popular culture as part of Kyung Hee University’s Global Collaborative summer school program in Seoul, South Korea. From 2022 to 2024, Dr Keith served as the Departmental Director of Education for the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, one of the largest departments at the university. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Dr Keith's research is cross-disciplinary, focusing on media and communication, popular music, and technology, particularly disruption in the creative industries, K-pop as a global phenomenon, media globalisation, and the role of artificial intelligence. Her work investigates how technologies, economics, and policies shape creative practices and communities. Notable projects include research on K-pop fandom and multicultural understanding in Australia, funded by a 2016 grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia–Korea Foundation, and studies on technological disruption in the music industries affecting Australian creatives. Key publications include the co-authored book The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery (Springer, 2016) with Diane Hughes, Michael Evans, and Greg Morrow; "Academic integrity in creative arts and media" in the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (Springer, 2024); and forthcoming chapters such as "Impacts of AI on US Copyright Law" and "Music Creation and Production" in the Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption (Springer, 2025), which she co-edits with Steve Collins and others. She has supervised numerous postgraduate students on topics related to contemporary music, music technology, and global musics, and regularly provides expert commentary to media outlets on K-pop and AI in the music industries.