Dr. Rebecca Weeks
Senior Learning Facilitator - Bachelor of Art & Design
Rebecca has over ten years of experience teaching in the tertiary sector in Aotearoa. She received her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2017 and her first book, History by HBO: Televising the American Past, was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2022.
Rebecca’s research focuses on representations of the past on-screen, with a particular emphasis on long-form drama and the television/streaming industry. She is currently investigating women's involvement in the visual effects and special effects industries in the USA and Aotearoa. Additionally, she serves as the film reviews editor for the journal Film & History.
Before joining Media Design School, Rebecca worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Auckland and as a lecturer at Massey University.
Selected Research Outputs:
Weeks, R. “History, Horror, and Peak TV: Experimental History Series.” Television & New Media 25, no.4 (2024): 386-401.
Weeks, R. “What if? Experimental History on Television.” In The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image, edited by Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Kim Nelson, and Mia E.M. Treacey, 314-329. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Weeks, R. “Marching Through Time: Māori History, Biographical Filmmaking and Whina,” Metro, 215, 2023: 54-57.
Weeks, R. History by HBO: Televising the American Past. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2022.
Weeks, R. “Review, Citizen Spielberg (2nd ed) by Lester D. Friedman." Australasian Journal of American Studies 41, no.1 (2022): 89-92.