projects

Current

I am a member of the management committee of Sticky Institute Melbourne.

A project on teaching reading resilience in literary studies (funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council) with Rosanne Kennedy, Kate Douglas and Gillian Whitlock.

I'm co-editing a book with Julie Rak on identity technologies.

Kate Douglas and I are working on a research project on youth cultures and autobiography.

I am co-supervising Sara Rosa Espi's PhD project on personal zines, which is attached to the Back to the Book Project led by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth at Utrecht University.

Past

Co-editor, with Johannes Klabbers an issue of m/c on the topic of 'doubt', 14.1 (2011).

Special Issue co-editor, with Gillian Whitlock, Biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly 31.1, 2008.

Special Issue co-editor, with Paul Atkinson, Southern Review 40.3, 2008.

Founder & convenor, Critical Animals conference, 2002-2004.

Guest co-editor, New Media Poetics 3 with David Teh, 2003.

Co-zines and comics coordinator, National Young Writers Festival with Katy Stevens, 2002.

Logistics coordinator, This Is Not Art, 2003.

President, Octapod Association, 2003.

Manager, National Young Writers Festival, 2000.