Doctor Anna Gibbs

Doctor Anna Gibbs

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Communications (SoHCA)

Personal

Qualifications

  • DipAdultPsychodynamicPsychotherap Australian College of Psychotherapists
  • PhD Murdoch University
  • BA University of Adelaide

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Communications (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:A.Gibbs@uws.edu.au
Extension:TBA
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Location:Bankstown
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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Gibbs, A. (2012), 'Disaffected', Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things, Routledge 9780415581776.
  • Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Affect Theory and Audience', The Handbook of Media Audiences, Blackwell 9781405184182.
  • Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2010), 'Memory and Motion: the body in electronic writing', Beyond the Screen: transformations in literary structures, interfaces and genres, Transcript 9783837612585.
  • Gibbs, A. (2010), 'After Affect', The Affect Theory Reader, duke university press 9780822347583.
  • Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2009), 'On Moving and Being Moved: The Corporeality of Writing in Literary Fiction and New Media Art', Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443801164.
  • Gibbs, A. (2007), 'Horrified: Embodied Vision, Media Affect And The Images From Abu Ghraib', Interrogating the War on Terror, Cambridge Scholars 1847181309.
  • Gibbs, A. (2006), 'Writing and Danger : the intercorporeality of affect', Creative Writing : theory beyond practice, Post pressed 192121404X.
  • Gibbs, A. (2001), 'Round and Round the Looking Glass: New French Feminisms', Contemporary Australian Literary Criticism: A Reader, University of Queensland Press .

Journal Articles

  • Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Writers, writing and writing programs in the information age', Text: journal of the AAWP, .
  • Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Geospatial Aesthetics: Time, Space, Agency and Movement in Electronic Writing', Spache und Literatur, 9.
  • Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Geospatial Aesthetics: Time, Space, Agency and Movement in Electronic Writing', Sprach und Literatur, 9.
  • Gibbs, A. (2010), 'At the Time of Writing: Sedgwick's Queer Temporalities', Australian Humanities Review, 14.
  • Gibbs, A. (2010), ''Constant Oscillation: Maria Cruz's "00 (yes)'''', Eyeline, 3.
  • Gibbs, A. and Hawke, S. (2008), 'The Thalassal Trend: the Currency of Water: And The Role Of Affect In The Psycho-Somatic Relation', Thalassa, 21.
  • Gibbs, A. (2008), 'Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field', Cultural Studies Review, 16.
  • Gibbs, A. (2008), 'Cartographies of Feeling: One Night's Tango in Paris', Emotion, Space and Society, 4.
  • Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2006), 'Media Affect and the Face: Biomediation and the Political Scene', Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture, 16.
  • Gibbs, A. (2005), 'Fictocriticsm, Affect, Mimesis: engendering differences', Text: journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, .
  • Gibbs, A. (2005), 'In Thrall: affect contagion and the bio-energetics of media', M/C: a journal of media and culture, .
  • Gibbs, A. (2003), 'Writing and the flesh of others: Feminism and fictocriticism in Australia', Australian Femenist Studies, 11.
  • Gibbs, A. (2002), 'Disaffected', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 7.
  • Gibbs, A. (2001), 'Contagious Feelings: Pauline Hanson and the Epidemiology of Affect', The Australian Humanities Review, .

Conference Papers

  • Grigar, D., Tabbi, J., Kirschenbaum, M., Tata, M., Heckman, D., Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2009), 'E-Ject: On the Ephemeral Nature, Mechanisms, and Implications of Electronic Objects'', Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Irvine, calif.

Other Publications

  • 2007, 'Jacket Magazine', Published Work
  • 2005, 'Acupuncture for Turtles: A Selection of Award-Winning Stories from the Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Competition 1998-2002', Published Work
  • 2005, 'Artspace Projects', Published Work
  • 2006, 'Strange Attractors: charm between art & science', Published Work
  • 2009, 'Peter E Charuk: a retrospective', Published Work
  • 2011, 'Craft Arts International - Analogues of Landscape : Benjamin Sewell', Published Work
  • 2011, 'Falling', Published Work
  • 2011, 'As If By Magic', Published Work
  • 2012, 'Falling through time', Published Work
  • 2012, 'Surfacings', Published Work

Research

Current Projects

Title:Creative nation: writers and writing in the new media arts
Years:2011-03-29 - 2014-03-28
ID:P00018284
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Designated Research Group - Communication and Affect Research Group
Years:2000-07-13 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0013008
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Towards a Theory of Sympathy: Mimicry in the Therapeutic Field
Years:2000-07-01 - 2002-07-30
ID:P0012886
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:From Sympathy to Sympathetic Communication
Years:2003-01-25 - 2004-01-24
ID:P0011716
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:From 'Sympathy' to Sympathetic Communication
Years:2004-02-16 - 2005-02-15
ID:P0011634
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Writing in the Image Culture
Years:2007-12-10 - 2008-12-09
ID:P0015904
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:The Power of the Image: affect, audience and disturbing imagery
Years:2006-01-10 - 2009-10-30
ID:P0014641
UWS Researchers:Virginia Nightingale and Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:New Media Art and Writing: Towards a Glossary of Literary Terms for Digital Environments
Years:2010-12-06 - 2010-12-31
ID:P00018166
UWS Researchers:Anna Gibbs
Funding:
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities

Supervision

Doctor Gibbs is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Permapoesis: An Intermedia Memoir.
Field of Research:
Title:A Novel with Thematic and Theoretical Notions
Field of Research:
Title:The Colour of Dissonance
Field of Research:
Title:The Antinomies of the Avant-Garde: Roberto Bolano and the Fate of Radical Literature
Field of Research:
Title:Genre Incursions: (non) Fictional - (auto) Biographical - (ficto) Critical Movements in 21st Century New Media Texts: the Form/ula of an Unruly Subject
Field of Research:
Title:Nomad's Home: A Pilgrimage to Translation
Field of Research:STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY
Title:Hyperlink and Literature
Field of Research:
Title:Anorexia and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: A Novel
Field of Research:
Title:Not Known at this Address: Ethics, Writing and Approaching 'The Other' After Alain Badiou
Field of Research:
Title:Tortured Bodies: Narratives on the War on Terror
Field of Research:
Title:The Transgenerational Transmission and Poetics of Trauma: A Fictional-Conceptual Manifesto
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:Call Waiting
Field of Research:LITERATURE
Thesis:CALL WAITING
Title:semi-detached
Field of Research:
Thesis:SEMI-DETACHED
Title:Places and Spaces of the Writing Life.
Field of Research:
Thesis:PLACES AND SPACES OF THE WRITING LIFE.
Title:The Water Novel (With Mata Hari)
Field of Research:
Thesis:THE WATER NOVEL (WITH MATA HARI)
Title:Jig-saw
Field of Research:
Thesis:JIG-SAW
Title:With Tender Contempt.
Field of Research:
Thesis:WITH TENDER CONTEMPT.
Title:Performance piece based on memory/body/trauma "My Vicious Angel"
Field of Research:
Thesis:PERFORMANCE PIECE BASED ON MEMORY/BODY/TRAUMA "MY VICIOUS ANGEL"
Title:Shelter
Field of Research:COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
Thesis:SHELTER
Title:"Libertine" A Novel, & A Writers Reflection The Libertine Dynamic: Existential Erotic and Apocalyptic Gothic
Field of Research:
Thesis:"LIBERTINE" A NOVEL, & A WRITERS REFLECTION THE LIBERTINE DYNAMIC: EXISTENTIAL EROTIC AND APOCALYPTIC GOTHIC
Title:The Concerto Inn
Field of Research:
Thesis:THE CONCERTO INN
Title:Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience
Field of Research:
Thesis:MACHINES FOR FEELING: NARRATING AUTISTIC EXPERIENCE
Title:'Through the window'
Field of Research:STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Thesis:LOU (FORMERLY 'THROUGH THE WINDOW')
Title:Wet: A Novel and a Project
Field of Research:COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
Thesis:WET: A NOVEL AND A PROJECT
Title:The Making of Terra Captivius
Field of Research:SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Thesis:The Making of Terra Captivius
Title:Visions of Excess
Field of Research:CREATIVE ARTS; THE ARTS
Thesis:VISIONS OF EXCESS
Title:The Earth Eaters
Field of Research:THE ARTS
Thesis:THE EARTH EATERS
Title:Missing Lebanon: Art and Autobiography
Field of Research:THE ARTS
Thesis:Missing Lebanon: Art and Autobiography
Title:Tom Boyd, Victorian Working Man Both Ordinary and Peculiar: A Lesson in Applied Physiognomy
Field of Research:WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Thesis:Tom Boyd, Victorian Working Man Both Ordinary and Peculiar: A Lesson in Applied Physiognomy
Title:The GLOSSARY as Fictocriticism: a Project and New Moon Through Glass
Field of Research:CREATIVE ARTS
Thesis:The GLOSSARY as Fictocriticism: a project and New Moon Through Glass
Title:Changing Bodies: Representations of Metamorphic Comic Characters
Field of Research:CREATIVE ARTS
Thesis:Changing Bodies: Representations of Metamorphic Comic Characters
Title:Discontinued Narratives of Migration and an Art Practice with Earth
Field of Research:CREATIVE ARTS
Thesis:Discontinued Narratives of Migration and an Art Practice with Earth
Title:"At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied": The Prose Fictional Metaphysics of W. G. Sebald
Field of Research:LITERATURE
Thesis:<p> <i>"At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied"</i>: The Prose Fictional Metaphysics of W. G. Sebald</p>
Title:Writing Women: Text, Desire and the Feminine Subject
Field of Research:
Thesis:Writing Women: Text, Desire and the Feminine Subject

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