Ben Eltham is an Australian writer, journalist, researcher, creative producer and social commentator based in Melbourne.
He is a lecturer in media and communications at Monash University's School of Media, Film and Journalism and was a fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and a research fellow at Deakin University's Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention. Eltham studied neuroscience and philosophy at the University of Queensland, and did a PhD at Western Sydney University on cultural policy. He has served as national affairs correspondent for New Matilda.
Contributions
- Public policy of culture in Australia, particularly at federal level.
- When the Goal Posts Move: Patronage, power and resistance in Australian cultural policy 2013–2016 (Currency House, 2016).
- Popular media; journalist and essayist with New Matilda, contributor to Crikey, Guardian Australia, Overland, Meanjin and the Sydney Review of Books.
- Producer and festival director in Newcastle, Brisbane and Melbourne.
Bibliography
Plays
- Eltham, Ben (2013). "The Pacific solution". In Cox, Emma (ed.). Staging asylum : contemporary Australian plays about refugees. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press.
Book reviews
| Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | "". Australian Book Review. 350: 62. April 2013. | Scourfield, Stepen (2013). As the river runs. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing. |
References
- "Ben Eltham - the Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". www.abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- Australian essayists
- Australian male dramatists and playwrights
- Australian people of English descent
- 21st-century Australian philosophers
- Film theorists
- Literary theorists
- Living people
- Mass media theorists
- Philosophers of art
- Philosophers of culture
- Philosophers of literature
- Philosophers of social science
- Social philosophers
- University of Queensland alumni
- Western Sydney University alumni