Doctor Rachel Morley

• Biography
• Grants / Current Projects
• Teaching
• Supervision
• Select Publications
• Contact Details

 

Biography

Rachel Morley is an Associate Lecturer in Communications and Writing in the School of Communication Arts. Her research interests and areas of expertise include: literary and creative practice (with a particular interest in biography and autobiography); new media writing technologies; postgraduate pedagogy and academic literacies; theory and practice in qualitative research (including ethnographies of writing and representation); the politics and ethics of archival research; and social and cultural representations of surrogate motherhood. Rachel also has experience working with online archival databases (see the ARC-funded, 'The Visual Mediation of a Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend', database.

She is Assistant Editor and Postgraduate Editor of Global Media Journal - Australian Edition and a member of the Writing and Society Research Group. She also co-hosts the TVS literary arts show Shelf Life on TVS (channel 44).

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Grants / Current Projects

ARC 2011-2014: 'Digital Archives, Datadiversity and Discoverability: The Strehlow Collection as Knowledge Resource for Remote Indigenous Communities'.
Researchers: Associate Professor Hart Cohen, Dr Juan Salazar, Dr Rachel Morley, Ms Lisa Kaufmann

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Teaching

Rachel coordinates and teaches the following subjects:
Writing as Communication
The Writing Self
Experimental Writing
Creativity: Theory and Practice (Hons)

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Supervision

Rachel is available for postgraduate supervision in the areas of life-writing and creative non-fiction, experimental writing, nineteenth-century literary studies, and theories and practices of creative writing.

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Select Publications

Book chapters

2007
'Talking Collaboratively: Conversations with Michael Field', Michael Field and Their World, (eds. Cheryl Wilson & Margaret Stetz), Buckinghamshire: Rivendale Press, pp. 13-24

'From Demidenko to Darville: Scenes from a Literary Carnivale', Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing, (eds. Ann Heilmann & Mark Llewellyn), Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73-86
 
2005
'A Stitch in Time: An Experiment in Collaboration', Lesbian Academic Couples, (eds. Michelle Gibson & Deborah T. Meem), New York: Harrington Park Press, pp. 13-24

Journal Articles

2012
'Fighting Feeling: Re-thinking Biographical Praxis', Life Writing, (eds. Dr Mary Besemeres and Dr Maureen Perkins), Routledge, (in press)

2011
'Writing Intimate Lives', Literature Compass, (eds. Margaretta Jolly and Meg Jensen), (in press)

2010
'Database Narratives: Conceptualising Digital Heritage Databases in Remote Aboriginal Communities' (Cohen, Dallow, Kaufmann, Morley), Information Visualisation, IEE

2009
'The Trial of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper: Poets and Lovers', Michaelian, (ed. Sharon Bickle), Rivendale Press, Buckinghamshire

2005
'A New Sketch of Edith Cooper', Notes and Queries, vol 250, no 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 81-2

2004
'Constructing the Self, Composing the Other: Auto/Fixation and the Case of Michael Field', Colloquy, issue 8, Melbourne: Monash University

2003
'Boxed In: Muscling in on Masculine Identities', Voicing Dissent: New Talents 21C, Journal of Australian Studies, no 76, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp. 109-116

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