Professor Anthony Cahalan
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Anthony Cahalan
Bio
Professor Anthony Cahalan has twenty-five years of broad-ranging academic, professional and managerial experience in the design professions and university education. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University in 2007 and was previously Dean of the Faculty of Design at Canada’s largest university of art and design, the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. Prior to this, he was Deputy Head of the Division of Health, Design and Science and Deputy Head of the School of Design and Architecture at the University of Canberra, where he remains Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design.
His educational background includes a PhD in design from Curtin University of Technology, a Master of Design from the University of Technology Sydney and a BA (Visual Communication) from Sydney College of the Arts. Dr Cahalan’s research interest within the broad area of visual communication is contemporary typography – his PhD was the first in Australia in the field – and the thesis, Type, trends and fashion, has been produced as a book by Mark Batty Publisher in New York.
Professor Cahalan has held professional positions in graphic design, marketing and public relations and worked for national and international clients in the private, intergovernmental and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and at the United Nations in Austria. He has a comprehensive publications record and is an accomplished public speaker, presenting regularly at national and international conferences. He has been the country delegate for Australia of Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and a state president and national councillor of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA).
He has planned and developed new academic courses, taught in and across disciplines in a variety of academic institutions at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervised and acted as external examiner for Masters and PhD candidates and been responsible for establishing and accrediting university programs at the University of Tasmania, the University of Canberra and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
