Dr. Lesley Speed
Senior Lecturer, Humanities
Campus
Biography
Dr Lesley Speed’s research encompasses various aspects of popular screen texts. Dr Speed’s areas of expertise include contemporary and early screen comedy within and outside Australia, Australian screen genres, genre-mixing including documentary and fiction, cultural value and social aspects of screen texts, and cultural discourses relating to video games.
Lesley is author of the books Australian Comedy Films of the 1930s: Modernity, the Urban and the International (Australian Teachers of Media, 2015) and Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s (Routledge, 2018). She has been a Scholar in Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive and a judge for the ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards.
Lesley is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in media and screen studies at Federation University Australia. She joined the University of Ballarat (now Federation University) in 2004 and previously taught at La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
- Publications
Adventures in fantasy Australia: Australian settings, international video games
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17503175.2025.2571832
When Clemente Met Histotainment: Teaching Film and History in Clemente Ballarat
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-031-97525-7_7