Ġorġ Mallia is a communications academic, author and cartoonist working on the island of Malta. He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta.

He has a B.A.(Hons) in English Literature and an M.A. in Communications, both from the University of Malta, and a Ph.D in Instructional Technology, from the University of Sheffield, UK. He specialises in Print and Presentation Media, Personal Communications, Personal Branding, and Instructional Design and Technology (particularly Transfer of Learning). His present research is mainly on the cognitive processing change incurred by new media technology immersion. A brief academic interest section can be found on this site,

He has presented at a number of international conferences, and published in his areas of expertise. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Malmö, and has lectured at the University of Lund, both in Sweden

Ġorġ Mallia has published books of fiction for children, which he has also illustrated, as well as books of experimental short stories. He produced what was at the time Malta's only regular socio-political comic strip (One Family) in The Sunday Times between 1993 and 2008. He has published extensively (in Maltese and English) both in his academic fields of interest and creatively, children's and adult fiction. His "Pullu" books for very young children are among the best-selling books for that age in Malta.

Dr. Mallia has also produced and presented a number of programmes on national television and radio. He is at present the chairman of the National Book Council of Malta.

A full CV is available on this site.