Professor Anna Gibbs
Adjunct Professor - School of Humanities and Com Arts,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Professor,
Communications (SoHCA)
Biography
Professor Anna Gibbs is based in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at UWS, and is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre and the Digital Humanities Research Group.
She has published widely across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies with a particular focus on affect theory, mimetic communication, corporeality and feminism.Other current research interests include new materialism, experiemental and conceptual writing, e-poetry and poetics.
Co-editor of three collections of contemporary Australian writing, she is also an experimental writer, collaborates with artists and performers, and curator of ‘(Un)coverings: art, writing and the book’ (Horus and Deloris Gallery, Pyrmont, 2009). She is a long-time practitioner and theorist of fictocriticism.
Her ARC-funded Discovery Projects include ‘The Power of the Image: affect, audience and disturbing imagery’ with Virginia Nightingale, and Creative Nation: writers and writing in the new media culture’ with Maria Angel (UWS) and Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago), the major outcome of which was the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA).
A member of The Longford Project group of artists, she is currently working on a collaborative project investigating co-incidence, connection and collaboration through the history of a pinprick-sized town in northern Tasmania, and the intersectng, overlapping and clashing passgae of a few generations of Aboriginal and European people through a critical point in time. This project, which held an Australia Council Development Grant in 2013, has exhibited at Articulate Space in Sydney; Sydney College of the Arts Gallery; and the Tasmanian International Arts Festival. The group has been awarded a Bindanon residancy in 2016, and exhibitions in Hobart and Launceston are planned for 2017.
She has successfully supervised more than 40 postgraduates in writing, the interdisciplinary creative arts, and textual, visual, media and cultural studies.
This information has been contributed by Professor Gibbs.
Qualifications
- DipAdultPsychodynamicPsychotherap Australian College of Psychotherapists
- PhD Murdoch University
- BA University of Adelaide
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
- Communications (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | A.Gibbs@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Location: | 1.G.54 Bankstown |
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Publications
Chapters in Books
- Gibbs, A. (2023), 'Writing in between', New Perspectives on Academic Writing: The Thing That Wouldn't Die, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350231535.
- Gibbs, A. (2017), 'Language as a life form', Animism in Art and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan 9783319665498.
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2017), 'At the speed of light : cyberfeminism, xenofeminism and the digital ecology of bodies', #WomenTechLit, West Virgina University 9781943665907.
- Gibbs, A. (2017), 'Radials and radicles : the rhizomatic practice of Elizabeth Day', Discontinued Narratives : Elizabeth Day, Connie Dietzschold Gallery 9780646977027.
- Gibbs, A. (2015), 'Writing as method : attunement, resonance and rhythm', Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect, Palgrave 9781137483188.
- Gibbs, A. (2013), 'Apparently unrelated : affective resonance, concatenation and traumatic circuitry in the terrain of the everyday', Traumatic Affect, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443848671.
- 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 & round the looking glass', Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000, University of Queensland Press 9780702232039.
Journal Articles
- Gibbs, A. (2015), 'Mimesis as a mode of knowing : vision and movement in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painleve', Angelaki, vol 20, no 3 , pp 43 - 54.
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2015), 'The futures of writing : experiments in digital exscryption', Journal of Poetics Research, vol 3 .
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2014), 'The ethos of 'walking' : digital writing and the temporal animation of space', Formules, vol 18 , pp 151 - 163.
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2013), 'At the time of writing : digital media, gesture and handwriting', Electronic Book Review, vol 2013, no August .
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2013), 'At the time of writing : digital media, gesture and handwriting', Electronic Book Review, vol 2013, no August .
- Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Writers, writing and writing programs in the information age', Text: journal of the AAWP, vol 15, no 2 .
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2011), 'Geospatial Aesthetics: Time, Space, Agency and Movement in Electronic Writing', Spache und Literatur, vol 108, no 42 , pp 13 - 21.
- Gibbs, A. (2010), 'At the time of writing : Sedgwick's queer temporalities', Australian Humanities Review, vol 2010, no 48 , pp 41 - 54.
- Gibbs, A. (2010), 'Constant oscillation : Maria Cruz's "00 (yes)'', Eyeline, vol nv, no 71 , pp 80 - 82.
- Gibbs, A. and Hawke, S. (2008), 'The Thalassal trend : the currency of water : and the role of affect in the psycho-somatic relation', Thalassa, vol 19, no 1 , pp 37 - 57.
- Gibbs, A. (2008), 'Panic! : affect contagion, mimesis and suggestion in the social field', Cultural Studies Review, vol 14, no 2 , pp 130 - 145.
- Gibbs, A. (2008), 'Cartographies of feeling : one night's tango in Paris', Emotion, Space and Society, vol 1, no 2 , pp 102 - 105.
- Angel, M. and Gibbs, A. (2006), 'Media Affect and the Face: Biomediation and the Political Scene', Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture, vol 38, no 2 , pp 24 - 39.
- 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, vol 8, no 5 .
- Gibbs, A. (2003), 'Writing and the flesh of others: Feminism and fictocriticism in Australia', Australian Femenist Studies, vol 18, no 42 , pp 309 - 319.
- Gibbs, A. (2002), 'Disaffected', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 16, no 3 , pp 335 - 341.
- Gibbs, A. (2001), 'Contagious Feelings : Pauline Hanson and the epidemiology of affect', The Australian Humanities Review, vol 2001, no 24 .
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.
Exhibitions
- 2015, 'Release Date: History, Memory, Longford'
Other Publications
- 2016, 'Interruptions in the Everyday', Published Work
- 2016, 'On Moving and Being Moved', Published Work
- 2015, 'ADELTA: The Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art', Recorded Work
- 2014, 'Art in the aftermath : the work of repair', Published Work
- 2013, 'From there to here and then to now : a very rough guide', Published Work
- 2012, 'Falling through time', Published Work
- 2012, 'Surfacings', Published Work
- 2011, 'Falling', Published Work
- 2011, 'Craft Arts International - Analogues of Landscape : Benjamin Sewell', Published Work
- 2011, 'As If By Magic', Published Work
- 2009, 'Peter E Charuk: a retrospective', Published Work
- 2007, 'Jacket Magazine', Published Work
- 2006, 'Strange Attractors: charm between art & science', Published Work
- 2005, 'Artspace Projects', Published Work
- 2005, 'Acupuncture for Turtles: A Selection of Award-Winning Stories from the Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Competition 1998-2002', Published Work
writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies with an emphasis on feminism, affect theory, and fictocriticism. Co-editor of three collections of Australian experimental writing, she also performs her own experimental texts. She is currently completing a book on feminist theory and electronic literature (Exscryptions: Memory, Movement, and the Unfolding of Space in Digital Writing) with Maria Angel. Her experimental and cut up writing has been widely published and internationally performed, and she is a frequent collaborator with visual artists, most recently with Elizabeth Day, Julie Gough and Noelene Lucas as a member of The Longford Project, which works with the colonial history of Longford in northern Tasmania to turn the coincidence of common ancestry into connection and reconciliation in the present through a collaborative practice in contemporary art. The Longford Project won an Australia Council Development Grant (2014), has exhibited work at Sydney College of the Arts Gallery (2013); Articulate Project Space (2014); Tasmanian International Arts Festival (2015) and was awarded a residency at the Bundanon Foundation in 2016.
This information has been contributed by Professor Gibbs.
Previous Projects
| Title: | Designated Research Group - Communication and Affect Research Group |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2000-07-13 - 2002-12-31 |
| ID: | P0013008 |
| Title: | Towards a Theory of Sympathy: Mimicry in the Therapeutic Field |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2000-07-01 - 2002-07-30 |
| ID: | P0012886 |
| Title: | From Sympathy to Sympathetic Communication |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2003-01-25 - 2004-01-24 |
| ID: | P0011716 |
| Title: | From 'Sympathy' to Sympathetic Communication |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2004-02-16 - 2005-02-15 |
| ID: | P0011634 |
| Title: | Writing in the Image Culture |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel |
| Years: | 2007-12-10 - 2008-12-09 |
| ID: | P0015904 |
| Title: | The Power of the Image: affect, audience and disturbing imagery |
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| Western Researchers: | Virginia Nightingale and Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2006-01-10 - 2009-10-30 |
| ID: | P0014641 |
| Title: | Creative nation: writers and writing in the new media arts |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel |
| Years: | 2011-03-29 - 2014-12-30 |
| ID: | P00018284 |
| Title: | New Media Art and Writing: Towards a Glossary of Literary Terms for Digital Environments |
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| Western Researchers: | Anna Gibbs |
| Years: | 2010-12-06 - 2010-12-31 |
| ID: | P00018166 |
Supervision
Professor Gibbs is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | An Invented Form of Remedial Fiction |
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| Thesis Title: | Feminist perspectives of Australian colonial history/the adolescent literature 'Coming of Age' genre/postmodern meldings of past and present/ fictocriticism |
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| Thesis Title: | A Novel with Thematic and Theoretical Notions |
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| Thesis Title: | The Colour of Dissonance |
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| Thesis Title: | The Antinomies of the Avant-Garde: Roberto Bolano and the Fate of Radical Literature |
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| Thesis Title: | Molly Haydock |
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| Thesis Title: | Genre Incursions: (non) Fictional - (auto) Biographical - (ficto) Critical Movements in 21st Century New Media Texts: the Form/ula of an Unruly Subject |
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| Thesis Title: | Hyperlink and Literature |
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| Thesis Title: | Anorexia and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: A Novel |
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| Thesis Title: | Not Known at this Address: Ethics, Writing and Approaching 'The Other' After Alain Badiou |
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| Thesis Title: | Tortured Bodies: Narratives on the War on Terror |
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| Thesis Title: | The Transgenerational Transmission and Poetics of Trauma: A Fictional-Conceptual Manifesto |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Call Waiting |
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| Field of Research: | Literature |
| Thesis Title: | semi-detached |
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| Thesis Title: | Places and Spaces of the Writing Life. |
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| Thesis Title: | The Water Novel (With Mata Hari) |
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| Thesis Title: | Jig-saw |
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| Thesis Title: | With Tender Contempt. |
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| Thesis Title: | Performance piece based on memory/body/trauma "My Vicious Angel" |
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| Thesis Title: | Shelter |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies |
| Thesis Title: | "Libertine" A Novel, & A Writers Reflection The Libertine Dynamic: Existential Erotic and Apocalyptic Gothic |
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| Thesis Title: | The Concerto Inn |
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| Thesis Title: | Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience |
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| Thesis Title: | 'Through the window' |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Wet: A Novel and a Project |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies |
| Thesis Title: | The Making of Terra Captivius |
| Field of Research: | Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Visions of Excess |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts; The Arts |
| Thesis Title: | The Earth Eaters |
| Field of Research: | The Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Missing Lebanon: Art and Autobiography |
| Field of Research: | The Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Tom Boyd, Victorian Working Man Both Ordinary and Peculiar: A Lesson in Applied Physiognomy |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication |
| Thesis Title: | The GLOSSARY as Fictocriticism: a Project and New Moon Through Glass |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Changing Bodies: Representations of Metamorphic Comic Characters |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Nomad's Home: A Pilgrimage to Translation |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society |
| Thesis Title: | Discontinued Narratives of Migration and an Art Practice with Earth |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | "At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied": The Prose Fictional Metaphysics of W. G. Sebald |
| Field of Research: | Literature |
| Thesis Title: | Walking for Food: Regaining Permapoesis |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society; Language And Literature, N.e.c.; Earth Sciences; Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Writing Women: Text, Desire and the Feminine Subject |
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