Mark Gibson is Professor of Media in the School of Media and Communication.

Mark has interests in cultural industries; fringe, independent and alternative cultural production; performance comedy; and histories of media and cultural studies.

Mark is co-author of Fringe to Famous – Australian Cultural Production After the Creative Industries (Bloomsbury, 2024) and author of Culture and Power – A History of Cultural Studies (Berg, 2007). He is currently a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage project, 'Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change'.

Before joining RMIT, Mark worked at Monash University, Murdoch University and Central Queensland University. He was also editor, for thirteen years, of Continuum – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.