Professor Robert Phiddian

Robert Phiddian works on political satire, particularly Australian political cartoons, presently as a Chief Investigator of an ARC Discovery Grant, "Cartoon Nation: Australian Editorial Cartooning - Past, Present, and Future" (2023-6).
Over the years, he has been Research Centre Director, Associate Dean Research, and Deputy Dean in the School of Humanities at Flinders University. At present he is enjoying a spell as a teacher and researcher, and is publishing a lot, on humour, satire, and the value of culture.
He teaches Shakespeare and Eighteenth Century literature, as well as courses in political satire, parody, and humour. He has been Chair of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, was Foundation Director of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC). Board memberships have included the Australian Book Review (ABR) and of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). Most recently he is the author of Satire and the Public Emotions (Cambridge UP, 2020) and co-author (with Julian Meyrick and Tully Barnett) of What Matters?: Talking Value in Australian Culture (Monash UP, 2018). he is contracted to co-author a history of Australian cartooning with Melbourne University Press.