James Donald

James Donald is an Australian academic and writer who served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales from 2007 to 2015 and is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies there. He previously taught at Curtin University of Technology, the Open University, and the University of Sussex. Donald holds degrees from Oxford University, Goldsmiths’ College, and the Open University, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006.

His books include Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty (1992), Imagining the Modern City (1999), and Some of These Days: Black Stars, Jazz Aesthetics and Modernist Culture (2015). He has also edited works including Fantasy and the Cinema, Close Up: Cinema and Modernism, and The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies.