We are delighted to welcome to the Media/Cinema team Dr Djoymi Baker, who has been appointed as an Early Career Development Fellow. Djoymi is an established teacher and researcher in film and media studies, and has published numerous articles on film and television, on topics such as fandom, myth in popular culture, and genre studies.

Djoymi is the author of To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (2018) and the co-author of The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (2014). Recent work appears in The Age of Netflix (2017) and The New Peplum (2018), and in The Soundtrack journal (2019).

Djoymi will be teaching into Introduction to Cinema Studies and True Lies: Documentary Studies in Semester 1, so please make her feel welcome!