Tara Brabazon is the Australian Dean of Graduate Research and the Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce and director of the Popular Culture Collective. She has previously held academic positions in the UK, New Zealand and Canada, won six teaching awards, published 20 books, written 250 refereed articles and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019.