Andrew Burn (professor)

Andrew Burn
Andrew Burn launching the Playing Beowulf conference at the British Library, 2015
Born	Andrew Burn Shifnal, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Professor
Employer	University College London
Known for	Media Arts education; Kineikonic Mode theory
Website	AndrewBurn.org

Andrew Burn (born 1954) is an English professor and media theorist. He is best known for his work in the fields of media arts education, multimodality and play, and for the development of the theory of the Kineikonic Mode. He is a professor of English, Drama and Media at the UCL Institute of Education.

Burn is also the director of DARE, a research collaboration with the British Film Institute.

Burn was born in 1954 in Shifnal, England. He attended Harrogate Hill Primary School in Darlington, before moving to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in Malaysia, while he was still young. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and went on to study at St John's College, Oxford, winning the Eugene Lee-Hamilton prize for the best Petrarchan sonnet in Oxford and Cambridge in 1975.

Burn's teaching career started as a secondary school teacher, working for over twenty years in Huntingdon, St. Neots and Cambridge. He served as a member of the Labour Party's ruling administration of Cambridge City council between 1982 and 1987, representing the King's Hedges ward. He was part of the peace initiative to twin the city of Cambridge with Szeged, Hungary.