Professor Jenna Ng
Honorary Professor

Profile

Biography

Jenna Ng is Professor and Head of the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she provides strategic direction, leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary department of over 80 academic staff and 9 discipline areas. As a researcher, she works across conventional scholarship and creative practice on theoretical, cultural and critical analyses of digital media, with particular interests in digital imaging and screen cultures. Her monograph, The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), was awarded an Honourable Mention from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). Her creative research work has won the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis from the Media Ecology Association (MEA); the Learning on Screen Special Jury Prize (and nominated in the category of "Creative Reuse"); and a Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Practice-Based Research of the Year award, with its accompanying video essay screened at the 2025 InScience Film Festival in LUX Nijmegen and at the MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven. She has delivered keynotes, plenaries and major lectures internationally, and regularly participates as a guest speaker or panellist at public events, and art and film festivals. Extending her thesis of the new virtuality, Jenna is currently working on a book about existential tensions of authenticity and experience in the virtuality of generative AI.