Professor Marshall is a Chair in New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, and held the position of Head of School of Communication and Creative Arts from 2009 to 2011. Previously he has held professorial positions at Northeastern University in Boston and the University of Wollongong as well as positions at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture (Minnesota, 1997), New Media Cultures (Edward Arnold/Oxford, 2004) and the co-author of Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia (Cambridge, 2000/01), Web Theory (Routledge, 2002 with Robert Burnett), the editor of the Celebrity Culture Reader (2006), and over 60 articles and book chapters on media, new media and popular culture. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Bulgarian and Icelandic. Professor Marshall's two principal research areas are: the study of the public personality and the study of new media forms. His current research is a comprehensive reading of the changes from "representational" media to "presentational" media and investigates these shifts through the term "intercommunication". His work also includes leading research in the burgeoning field of persona studies as it investigates the proliferation of the public persona from its origins in the entertainment industries. Along with many media interviews/expert commentary on major networks ( including CNN, Fox News, the ABC, BBC, CBC, NPR) and for numerous newspapers ( including the New York Times, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor and many others), Professor Marshall was the founder of the online journal M/C ( www.media-culture.org.au ) in 1998.