Dr. Linda Daley
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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linda.daley@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-5204-7340
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Linda is a teacher-researcher in the School of Media and Communication. She has considerable experience in developing and teaching curriculum in literary studies and media and communication studies.
Linda’s research focuses on the combined potential of literature and philosophy to explore and express the interrelations of ethics, politics and aesthetics from feminist, anti-colonial and pedagogic perspectives. Her primary research project focuses on the ways in which Aboriginal literature conveys ways of thinking and feeling that are needed for a shared democratic future.
Linda has extensive leadership experience in managing undergraduate, Higher Degree by Research, and Honours programs.
As the School’s reconciliation advocate, Linda engages internally and externally with others committed to recruiting and embedding First Nations’ peoples and voices within RMIT’s education and research activity.
Linda is on the editorial committee of the Journal of Australian Studies and a member of the research student mentor program of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
Linda’s research focuses on the combined potential of literature and philosophy to explore and express the interrelations of ethics, politics and aesthetics from feminist, anti-colonial and pedagogic perspectives. Her primary research project focuses on the ways in which Aboriginal literature conveys ways of thinking and feeling that are needed for a shared democratic future.
Linda has extensive leadership experience in managing undergraduate, Higher Degree by Research, and Honours programs.
As the School’s reconciliation advocate, Linda engages internally and externally with others committed to recruiting and embedding First Nations’ peoples and voices within RMIT’s education and research activity.
Linda is on the editorial committee of the Journal of Australian Studies and a member of the research student mentor program of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
Supervisor projects
- Baiyiya: Music and Identity in First Nations
- 19 Dec 2023
- Journalism through Narratology
- 10 Jan 2023
- Sovereign Aesthetics
- 10 Jan 2023
- Writing (with) the girl: genre, self-writing, and extended girlhood
- 9 Jan 2023
- Figures of Finance: Financial Memoirs As “Books of Life, Guides for Conduct”
- 1 Apr 2021
- Drawing a Line through Place: Dislocating Place through Locative Sound Composition
- 25 Jun 2019
- Reading and Writing Philosophically Engaged Fiction—A Creative and Critical Discourse with Simone de Beauvoir
- 5 Jun 2019
- Listening In: Approaching Difference, Multiplicity and Collectivity through a Practice of Listening in Documentary
- 10 Apr 2018
- Speaking the Mother Tongue: Genealogies and Radio Objects
- 1 Mar 2017
- Practising Design in Response to Indigenous Sovereignty: A Narrative of Designing Lawfully on Country
- 11 Oct 2016
- Refiguring Animated Bodies: Feminist Perspectives on the Body in Animation
- 3 Mar 2015
- A Body at the Edge of Language: writing anorexia, bulimia and recovering
- 2 Mar 2015
- Soundproof: Reading Fictional Music from Proust to Mann
- 2 Mar 2015
- Storying With Groundwater: Why We Cry
- 27 Jan 2015
- Towards a User-Centric Environment for Online Design Teaching
- 27 Jan 2009
Teaching interests
The aesthetics, ethics and politics of literature; self-writing; Indigenous knowledge and cultural production; publics and knowledge-production.
Linda teaches in the Literary Studies minor in the School of Media and Communication.
She teaches the courses: Literature’s Ethics; Narrating the Self and Locating Knowledges.
Linda has successfully supervised 20 Masters and PhD candidates in areas that include feminist arts theory and practice (animation, documentary, sound studies, creative writing); fictional music; finance culture and memoir; writing climate change; Indigenous language revival; the ethics and politics of design practice.
Research interests
Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Design Practice and Management, Specialist Studies in Education, Other Language, Literature and Culture
