Dr Mathew Abbott

Academic Qualifications

BA (ANU), PhD (Sydney) 2012

Summary of Previous Experience

Dr Mathew Abbott is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community.

Mathew is President of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Branch at Federation University, an NTEU National Councillor, and a member of NTEU’s National Executive.

He completed his PhD in philosophy at Sydney in 2012 and graduated from ANU with First Class Honours, the Quentin Gibson Prize for Philosophy, and the University Medal.

Mathew took up his current position in 2012 after teaching philosophy, film, politics, and poetry at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Canberra.

Mathew has been invited to speak and participated in conferences and seminars worldwide. These included events at the University of Oxford, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, the Pratt Institute, McGill University, the University of Amsterdam, Lancaster University, the University of Essex, the University of Münster, Karlsruhe’s Centre for Art and Media, the University of Malta, the University of Porto, Lucca’s Palazzo Bernadini, Universidad Diego Portales, the University of Auckland, the National Film and Sound Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia.

Mathew spent the second half of 2018 on research leave in Germany, where he joined the Research Center for Analytic German Idealism at the University of Leipzig as Visiting Senior Research Fellow.

His research has been translated into Italian and Persian.