DrDonna Mcrae

Senior Lecturer, Performing Arts

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Senior Lecturer, Performing Arts
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 46893 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    screenwriting, Honours program
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Time-blindness as a feminist super power: the cinematic psycho-biddy reconsidered
    Briony Kidd - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Writing the Cold War Espionage Thriller: Looking at History through a Filmic Lens
    Jeremy Martino - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    They Sound Human: Crafting Post-Feminist Women in Contemporary Western/Horror
    Bryan Ott - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Unquiet Grave: The Woman Ghost in Contemporary Folk Horror Cinema
    Katherine Murray - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2026
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Cinema and the Art of Dying
    Matthew Burns - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2019
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Representation of Ghosts and Spirits in East and Southeast Asian Cinema
    Brooke Su Hnin Htut Aung - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2018
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Ethics in the Suburbs: An Exegesis of the film The King of Frankston
    Kristina Kraskov - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2019
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Preparing for Action!: an investigation into actor-direction for the screen
    Rohan Jones - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    CRADLE TO CRYPT: Women in Australian and South Korean Horror Cinema
    Katherine Murray - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    When Dogs Bark: An Enchained Memory of Destruction and Annihilation
    Matthew Keisoglu - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2026