Alan McKee

Who is Alan McKee?

Alan McKee is an Australian university professor and internationally acclaimed researcher of sexualised media.

He has served as the president of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and sits on the editorial boards of the academic journals Continuum, the Australian Journal of Communication, Social Semiotics and M/C.

He originally studied film and television, graduating with a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1996. He then emigrated to Australia. He worked at Edith Cowan University and the University of Queensland before moving to the Queensland University of Technology, where is currently a professor in the Creative Industries Faculty. He has published six academic books and over sixty refereed journal articles and book chapters. These have covered topics such as Children and media, Indigenous Australians and media, Television in Australia, Reality tv, Soap opera, Violence and media, Youth and media, Americanisation, and Gay and Queer representation in the media.

He is best known for his research on Pornography.