Rate My Professor Wyatt Moss-Wellington

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling and Writing at the University of New England, within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. He holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Sydney, as well as a BA from the University of Queensland. His research spans narratology, digital cultures, screen studies, film, ethics, care and kindness, cognitive humanities, emotions, political media, and songwriting. Moss-Wellington is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), recognizing his expertise in pedagogy and cognitive approaches to screen media.

Moss-Wellington authored the monographs Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). He co-edited ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) with Kim Wilkins and guest-edited special issues including “Cognition, Stigma, and Inclusivity” for Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (2024, with Margrethe Bruun Vaage and Catalin Brylla) and “Media and Fakery” for Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (2022, with Celia Lam and Filippo Gilardi). Key recent publications feature “Transnational Metacinemas” in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (2024); “Warwick Thornton’s Emotional Landscapes: Indigenous Cinema and Cultural Autonomy in Australia” in Film Criticism (2024); “What Can Cognitive Media Studies Bring to Social Justice?” in Projections (2024); “Going to the Movies in VR: Virtual Reality Cinemas as Alternatives to Real-World Cinemas” in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2023, with Kata Szita, Xiaolin Sun, and Eugene Ch'ng); and “Engendering Care for the Environment Through Podcasts” in Confronting the Climate Crisis (2025, with Lili Pâquet). Earlier works include “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater and Sayles” in Projections (2017) and “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys” in Film International (2015). His contributions extend to book chapters on topics such as screen stories, video games and comedy, and Richard Linklater’s humanism. Moss-Wellington has delivered research seminars at UNE, including on multiscreen emotions and digital futures.