Head of School: Professor Richard Maltby

Richard Maltby is Head of the School of Humanities, and Professor of Screen Studies. Richard moved to Australia in 1997 to become Head of Screen Studies at Flinders. Before then, he taught American and Commonwealth Arts at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he founded the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, and was Research Professor of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of several books, including Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (1995), Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century (1989), and Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus (1983), as well as articles and essays on the cultural history of American cinema. "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939, which he co-edited, won the Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.

Richard is the Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History, and is also currently editing a series of four books on Hollywood and its audiences for the British Film Institute. Together with his partner, Ruth Vasey, he is preparing an digital version of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. Archive, and one day he will complete Reforming the Movies: Politics, Censorship, and the Institutions of the American Cinema, 1908-1939.

Richard and Ruth live in Mount. Barker with their son, Benjamin.