Dr Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling & Writing - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Biography
Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at the University of New England. He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford UP, 2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2019) and co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh UP, 2019). Moss-Wellington is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).
Qualifications
PhD (The University of Sydney)
MA (The University of Sydney)
BA (The University of Queensland)
Primary Research Area/s
Narratology; Digital cultures; Screen studies; Film; Ethics; Care and kindness; Cognitive humanities; Emotions; Political media; SongwritingPublications
Monographs
2021. Cognitive Film and Media Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
2019. Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Edited Collections and Special Issues
2022. Celia Lam, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, and Filippo Gilardi, eds., “Media and Fakery,” special section of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 36, no. 3.
2019. ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze. Co-edited with Kim Wilkins. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Journal Articles
2024. Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, and Yat Ming Loo, "Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema," East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 10, no. 1, https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00117_1
2023. Kata Szita, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Xiaolin Sun, and Eugene Ch'ng, “Going to the Movies in VR: Virtual Reality Cinemas as Alternatives to Real-World Cinemas,” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 181 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103150
2022. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, and Yat Ming Loo, “Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions,” Genre 55, no. 2, 85-115.
2022. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Celia Lam, and Filippo Gilardi, “Introduction: Media and Fakery,” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 36, no. 3, 333-338.
2021. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination: Emotion, Memory and Metacognition in Inside Out,” Film-Philosophy 25, no. 2, 187-206.
2021. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Benign Violations in the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy,” Comedy Studies 12, no. 1, 2-14.
2021. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Criminals at Play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead,” in “Playful Encounters” special issue, Culture, Theory and Critique 62, no. 3, 208-222.
2020. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Individual and Collaborative Labour in the Space Crisis Movie: From Apollo 13 to The Martian,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 37, no. 7, 634-657.
2019. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “The Emotional Politics of Limerence in Romantic Comedy Films,” in “#Emotions” special issue, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 8, no. 1, 191-209.
2018. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Emotional Contagion and Co-Authored Family Narratives in Parenthood,” Style 52, no. 3, 302-320.
2018. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Abject Humanism in Tom Perrotta Adaptations: Election and Little Children,” Sydney Studies in English 43, 88-107.
2017. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater and Sayles,” Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 11, no. 1, 38-62.
2015. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys,” Film International 13, no. 1, 105-121.
2015. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Sentimentality in the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy: A Response to Berlant’s Optimism-Realism Binary,” Forum 20.
Book Chapters
2023. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen Studies,” in Screen Stories and Moral Understanding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Carl Plantinga. New York: Oxford UP, 212-227.
2022. Yat Ming Loo, Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, and Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Changing Representations of Modernity and Mobility: Chinese External Communications in Song of the Fisherman and China’s Port City TV Documentaries,” in China’s International Communication and Relationship Building, edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Corey Schultz. London: Routledge, 99-115.
2022. Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Paul Martin, “Benign Trials, Vexing Violations: Reading Humour in Puzzle Games,” in Video Games and Comedy, edited by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski and Jaroslav Švelch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 113-130.
2022. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects and SubUrbia,” in ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater, edited by Kim Wilkins and Timotheus Vermeulen. Edinburgh UP, 176-193.
2019. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation,” in ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 15-32.
2019. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay,” in ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 105-136.
2019. Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington, “Introduction: Jonze Between the Lines,” in ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1-11.
Memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI)
