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0000-0002-9290-5004
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Flinders University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Literary Studies | Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature | Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources | Film and Television | Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding Australia's Past | Languages and Literature | Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services | Library and related information services | Information Processing Services (incl. Data Entry and Capture) |
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Publications
Teaching Traumatic Life Narratives: Affect, Witnessing, and Ethics
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Risky Business: Teaching “Fails” in the Auto|Biography Classroom: An Introduction
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-12-2017
Indecent Exposure? Margaux Fragoso and the Limits of Abuse Memoir
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
‘Share the Shame’
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
‘Not Another ARC Summer’
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-10-2024
Locating Lives: Life Writing and the Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
The Reading Lab: ‘failure’, dynamic teaching and reflective practice in growing the skill of reading
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-12-2019
Special Issue: Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Life Narratives and Youth Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Lost and Found: the Life Narratives of Child Asylum Seekers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Okay to Laugh? Trauma, Memoir, and Teaching the Podcast Mum Says My Memoir is a Lie
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2022
The universal autobiographer: The politics of normative readings
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Introduction: Reading Trauma in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-05-2018
Beyond Borders
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 1970
Abstract: A review of Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll, Borderwork in Multicultural Australia (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2006).
Youth and Travel Narration
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-01-2022
Life Writing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-12-2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444337815.WBEOTNL003
Abstract: “Life writing” is an inclusive term used to describe the multitude of ways people construct “true” stories about their lives and/or the lives of others. The term is often used interchangeably with “life narrative,” “autobiography,” “auto/biography,” “autobiographical fiction,” “biography,” “memoir,” and “first‐person media.” There are distinct differences between these alternative terms—particularly as they represent erse subgenres and movements within what has been historically known as “autobiography.” Though the term “life writing” has been in use since the eighteenth century, it has gained currency in recent times as an umbrella term to represent all forms of nonfictional life‐story telling (Jolly Smith and Watson, 2001). Life writing attempts to circumvent problems associated with the term autobiography—which has historically been associated with an exclusive genre of writing—dominated by portraits of “great men.” Alternative terms such as “memoir” attempted to broaden and reshape the field—to promote life stories that had been excluded by the limits of autobiography. Life writing proposes to broaden the parameters of life and self‐representation even further, to promote a greater inclusive‐ness, and to provide a site for the cross‐examination of an expansive set of life‐story texts. Life writing considers the multitude of ways that people narrate their lives and the lives of others, in light of the texts and technologies people use to record these lives. Thus the term “life writing” has come to encompass texts other than written texts—oral testimony, artifacts, visual texts (photography, film, on‐line media), and so on (Jolly, ix).
Heavy Lifting: The Pedagogical Work of Life Narratives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-12-2017
Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-12-2018
Autobiography and Childhood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 26-07-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0263
Abstract: “Autobiography” derives from the Greek terms autos (self), bios (life), and graphein (writing), and is most commonly understood as a cultural text in which a person represents their own life. The practice has long been associated with the written word: well-known, published books in which significant people record their remarkable lives. Traditionally, autobiography has been characterized by so-called “great men,” usually white and European, recounting their lives as they approach their later years. However, cultural change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—particularly second-wave feminism, decolonization, globalization, the rise of technology, and mass and digital media—have changed “self-life-writing” radically. The development of alternative types of first-person and life storying, including memoir, documentary, reality television, blogs, vlogs, and erse and ever-emerging forms of social media (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok), has consistently brought new voices and subjects into the public sphere. Life narration, in its various forms, has become a erse, global genre. It is now steeped in the various written and oral traditions in which people have told stories about their lives for thousands of years and across myriad locations. The terms “autobiography,” “life writing,” and “life narrative” have become umbrella descriptors for the plethora of ways in which people of all ages, cultures, and locations represent themselves, their lives, or the lives of others on a daily basis. Childhood is, unsurprisingly, a common theme within autobiography. Childhood is where life begins, and autobiographies of childhood have brought a greater understanding of the erse ways in which people experience childhood.
To Move With Quick, Gentle Steps
Publisher: Australasian Association of Writing Programs
Date: 30-10-2019
DOI: 10.52086/001C.25401
Review of *Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies*, by Russell West-Pavlov.
Publisher: Australian Literary Studies
Date: 05-2006
The Reading Lab: ‘failure’, dynamic teaching and reflective practice in growing the skill of reading
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-12-2019
Circuits of Children’s Testimony
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2020
Blurbing Biographical: Authorship and Autobiography
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2001
Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Rethinking ‘Virtual’ Youth: Young People and Life Writing
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Conclusion: Youth, Agency and Self-Representation: What Cultural Work Can Life Writing Do?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Why literature students should practise life writing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-03-2018
Abstract: This article considers our experiences teaching a hybrid literature/creative writing subject called “Life Writing.” We consider the value of literature students engaging in creative writing practice—in this instance, the nonfiction subgenre of life writing—as part of their critical literary studies. We argue that in practicing life writing, our literature students are exposed to and gain wider perspective on the practical, critical, creative, and ethical issues that arise from working with literary texts. Such an approach is not with risk. As we discuss in this article, life writing texts can often narrate difficult or traumatic material. However, we want to show how life writing, with its particular focus on actual lives and lived experience, creates a particularly conducive ethical, intellectual, and creative space for learning about and practicing writing.
Youth Activism Online: Publics, Practices and Archives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
The affects of not reading: Hating characters, being bored, feeling stupid
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-10-2016
Abstract: This article brings recent debates in literary studies regarding the practice of close reading into conversation with Derek Attridge’s idea of ‘readerly hospitality’ (2004) to diagnose the problem of students in undergraduate literary studies programme not completing set reading. We argue that the method of close reading depends on encouraging students to foster positive affective responses towards difficulty – semiotic, emotional and intellectual. Drawing on trials of teaching methods in literary studies’ classrooms in four universities in Australia, we suggest that introducing students to the concept of ‘readerly hospitality’ – rather than assuming an appreciation of difficulty – can better prepare students for the encounters they will have in set literary texts and strengthen the effectiveness of classroom teaching.
The Art of Disappearing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2018
The Riot Grrrl Epistolarium
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Childhood and Youth
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2017
Lost Boys: Child Soldier Memoirs and the Ethics of Reading
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Trauma in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2008
Zine Culture: A Youth Intimate Public
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Impossible Subjects: Addiction and Redemption in Memoirs of Girlhood
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Witnessing on the Web: Asylum Seekers and Letter-Writing Projects on Australian Activist Websites
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Emma González, Silence and Youth Testimony
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Youth, trauma and memorialisation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-07-2020
Abstract: There have recently been a series of high-profile media controversies around inappropriate selfies taken by young self-portraitists at trauma memorial sites. Popular media critiques propose that the selfie is a self-centred and disrespectful response to traumatic histories. In this article, I consider such selfies in light of cultural shifts in second-person witnessing. I propose that these selfies prompt a rethink for theorists of witnessing. What can we learn from these selfies regarding the ways that young people, mobile technologies and social media are impacting the way people may respond to communal traumas?
Go Back To Where You Came From : Stunt documentary, conversion narrative, and the limits of testimony on Australian television
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2013
Reading Objects, Watching YouTube, Writing Biography, and Teaching Life Writing: Student Engagement When Learning Online During Covid-19
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-0016
Introduction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
War Diaries: Representation, Narration and Mediation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Youth and Revolutionary Romanticism: Young Writers Within and Beyond the Literary Field
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Visualising lives: “the selfie” as travel writing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-06-2019
Building reading resilience: re-thinking reading for the literary studies classroom
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2015
‘With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-11-2022
Ethical dialogues: Youth, memoir, and trauma
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Introduction: Youth, cultural practice and media technologies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
@Alabedbana: Twitter, the child, and the war diary
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2018
Reading the Life Narratives of Children and Youth
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-06-2019
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