A great tutor and lecturer. Loved her media production unit.
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Larissa is one of those lecturers that captivates your attention and uses lots of real life examples to make theoretical concepts much easier to understand. She's also very approachable and kind. Our documentary was selected for several competitive film festivals - we would never have achieved this without Larissa's inspiring guidance and the time she spent working closely with our group.
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Larissa has a real gift and passion for storytelling and for teaching the skills of screen storytelling in a way that's really dynamic. I took her unit as an elective but now want to change my major! Damn.
Dr. Larissa Sexton-Finck serves as Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences (Learning and Teaching) and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Screen Arts from Curtin University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Film Studies from Murdoch University in 2009. Her PhD thesis, "Be(coming) Reel Independent Woman: An Autoethnographic Journey through Female Subjectivity and Agency in Contemporary Cinema," examines female subjectivity and agency within film narratives. Before her current appointment at UWA, Dr. Sexton-Finck was a short filmmaker and academic in the Department of Screen Arts and Communication & Cultural Studies at Curtin University, where she focused on screen production education.
Dr. Sexton-Finck's academic interests center on screen production pedagogy, fostering teamwork skills among screen production students, screenwriting practices, gender representations in cinema, digital storytelling, and creative practice as research. Her influential publications include "A Focus on Collaboration: Fostering Australian Screen Production Students' Teamwork Skills," co-authored with Kath Dooley and published in the Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability in 2017; "Violence Reframed: Constructing Subjugated Individuals as Agents, Not Images, through Screen Narratives" in M/C Journal in 2020; "Reflections on the Inaugural Advance HE Aurora Australia Program for Women who are Emerging Academic Leaders" in 2024; and the book chapter "Be(com)ing Reel Woman: Female Subjectivity and Agency in Contemporary Cinema." As an award-winning short filmmaker and digital storyteller, she also holds the role of Academic Director of the Multimedia Centre at UWA. In 2024, she participated in the Advance HE Aurora Australia Program, recognizing emerging women leaders in higher education. Her contributions enhance screen education methodologies and feminist perspectives in media studies.
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