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Djoymi Baker
Djoymi Baker is a lecturer in screen and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. Her work revolves around how concepts of genre and genre hybrids are used and received in screen media and visual culture, particularly across science fiction, the epic, children’s television and documentary hybrids. Connecting this research is an interest in the way images of the past and the future are harnessed in popular culture texts and paratexts to re-conceptualize the present. Current research projects examine children’s television; Australian science-fiction film and television; and lo-fi sci-fi in the digital era. Published works include the monograph To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (I.B. Tauris, 2018), and the co-authored Encyclopedia of Epic Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Her research features in books such as Millennial Mythmaking (McFarland, 2010), Star Trek as Myth (McFarland, 2010), The Age of Netflix (McFarland, 2017) and The New Peplum (McFarland, 2018).