Damien O'Meara

Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

Damien is a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. His background is in communication and public relations, screen, and media and cultural studies. His research interests include communication practice in creative and entertainment industries, production culture, participatory culture, celebrity, and gender and sexuality. His PhD research investigates the influence of production culture processes on gender and sexually diverse representations in Australian scripted television.

Experience

2025–present

Lecturer, RMIT University
2024–2025

Tutor, Swinburne University of Technology
2024–2024

Tutor, Monash University
2017–2023

Tutor, Swinburne Online

Education

2025

Swinburne University of Technology, PhD, Media and Communication
2022

Swinburne University of Technology, Graduate Certificate of Research and Innovation Management
2017

Swinburne University of Technology, Master of Arts (writing)
2014

Griffith University, Bachelor of Communications

Publications

2026

Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
2026

Queer worldbuilding in mainstream Anglophone television, Media, Culture & Society
2025

Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television, Media, Culture & Society
2025

Australian audience reactions to the ABC’s broadcast of Tales of the City, as seen in the Green Guide letters, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
2024

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and nonbinary representation on Australian scripted television in the 2000s and 2010s, Media International Australia
2023

Meet Cute in the Margins: Establishing Gay Community Contexts in the Gay Romcom, Senses of Cinema

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