Karen Vered
PhD (University of Southern California); MA (Temple University); BA (UC San Diego)
Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies
Karen Vered has been awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Citation in 2008 and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007.
Teaching in 2009:
SCRN1002 Media Histories
SCRN3007 Kids' Media Cultures
SCRN3005 Interactive Media: Futures in Screen Practice
Industry Placements (Practicum)
Research interests
Karen Orr Vered researches and writes about television, interactive media, and children's media practices.
Her book, Children and Media Outside the Home: Playing and Learning in After School care is available from Palgrave http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?PID=281067
With John McConchie, Dr. Vered recently gave a paper on Super Nanny at Consoling Passions: Conference on Television and Feminism.
In 2007 Dr. Vered undertook a research exchange in Sweden where she looked into what Swedish children were doing with media in fritids, their equivalent of after-school care. The trip was funded by a Swedish Exchange fellowship through the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Australian Academy of Humanities.
Dr. Vered also writes about television and has co-authored, with John McConchie, an article on the Logie Award published in Continuum. An essay on television’s new media aesthetic appears in Convergence.
Dr. Vered earned her Ph.D. from University of Southern California in Critical Studies of Cinema and Television. She also has an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Temple University and a BA in Communications from UC San Diego.
Current supervision:
Principal supervisor
Martin Manning's PhD thesis on Digital Games
Kristen van Bodegraven's MA thesis in Gastronomy (Adelaide) on Food as Comedic Device in Situation Comedy
Co-supervisor
Katie Cavanagh's PhD thesis on Archiving & Memory Online
Kate Deller-Evans PhD thesis Creative Writing: Exegesis - 'The Juvenile Hero's Journey' and YA novel Copper Girl
Steve Evans' PhD thesis on Narrative in Lyric Poetry
Mike Lim's MA thesis on Documenatry Photography & Cinema
Supervisory interests:
Television Studies
New Media Studies
Children & Media
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