A5025401008- Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- Australian History and Society
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Music History and Culture
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Digital Games and Media
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Media Studies and Communication
Utrecht University
2016-2021
The University of Sydney
2019
The University of Adelaide
2019
Monash University
2011-2018
Institute for Literary Studies
2011-2016
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
2011
University Hospital Heidelberg
2010
Heidelberg University
2010
Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital and new media exploring many modes self-expression self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, increasing saturation wireless communication devices everyday life. explores various ways individuals construct their identities on Internet, while also offering historical perspectives technologies intersect identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about...
This article considers the practice of digital storytelling in light contemporary theories autobiography and affect. Using concept coaxed life narrative developed by Sidonie Smith Julia Watson, I analyse role diversifying voices public sphere. Drawing on Berlant's theory intimate public, argue that given its formal restrictions thematic preoccupations, produces texts focused affective connection with audience, contributing to prevalence intimacy affect construction citizenship. conclude...
This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on "Autographics" maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in rapidly changing visual textual cultures autobiography. Beginning with survey current thinking about comics, it argues for autographic criticism as practice that engages new modes media, such graffiti online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates through fusions textual.
This paper introduces the concept of 'reading resilience': students' ability to read and interpret complex demanding literary texts by drawing on advanced, engaged, critical reading skills. Reading resilience is a means for rethinking place pedagogies close in contemporary studies classroom. Our research was across four Australian universities first study its kind context. We trialled three working strategies support students become consistent skilled readers, equip teachers with methods...
Abstract Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its tyrosine kinase receptor Met play a pivotal role in the tumor metastatic phenotype represent attractive therapeutic targets. We investigated biochemical biological effects of inhibitor RPI-1 on human lung cancer cell lines H460 N592, which express constitutively active Met. RPI-1-treated cells showed down-regulation activation expression, inhibition HGF/Met-dependent downstream signaling involving AKT, signal transducers activators...
This article argues that the scale and success of PostSecret project evidences continuing influence confession in contemporary autobiography. It analyzes importance materiality as a signifier authenticity participatory media functions an intimate public by coaxing life writing texts detaching them from their authorial subjects.
This paper will examine zines and zine culture as a unique medium of life writing. Using Australian the primary focus, I analyze two narrative strategies common to writing, present one few sites where writing by young people is performed circulated.
This article brings recent debates in literary studies regarding the practice of close reading into conversation with Derek Attridge’s idea ‘readerly hospitality’ (2004) to diagnose problem students undergraduate programme not completing set reading. We argue that method depends on encouraging foster positive affective responses towards difficulty – semiotic, emotional and intellectual. Drawing trials teaching methods studies’ classrooms four universities Australia, we suggest introducing...
This article investigates the zine as a compelling example of autographics, theorizing dynamics self-representation in these handmade texts. Reading intersection text, layout, and production complex site self-representation, materiality form is examined meta-critical refl ection on book potential photocopier means production.
This essay reconsiders the importance of performativity to scholarship on life writing by exploring potential Eve Sedgwick's concept periper-formative utterance for reading queer narratives. Taking documentary Tarnation (2003) as an example, I argue that a range narrative practices can be understood periperformative: texts both narrate individual and critically interrogate textual conditions under which lives are narrated. suggest key element periperformative is critique using unique voice...
Graphic Medicine's Possible FuturesReconsidering Poetics and Reading Erin La Cour (bio) Anna Poletti Since its coinage in 2007 by medical practitioner comics artist Ian Williams, graphic medicine has steadily gained traction as an umbrella term for that explore healthcare issues, the theoretical discourse these engender, study of expressive communicative tools. Embedded within studies, interacts with interdisciplinary humanities, which applies insights from social sciences, arts to practice...
Abstract In this article I will examine a limit point in current methods of reading autobiography studies, using Jonathan Caouette's 2003 autobiographical film Tarnation as case study. Reading powerful and deeply ambiguous key scene from the film, investigate limits narrative-based approach to multi-modal auto/biographical texts. Drawing on contemporary documentary affect theory, propose that rise acts which use multiple media presents scholars with opportunity diversify our include...
This essay originates out of our shared interest in genres and media forms used for identity practices that do not cohere into a narrative or fixed representation who someone is. It takes the current heightened visibility drag as mode performance explicitly engages with product materialized—but completed—by ongoing process performance. We consider new drag, which we define below, form playing combines bodily (comportment use voice) adornment (make-up, clothing, wigs, accessories) an array...