Dr. Brigid Magner
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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brigid.magner@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2294-2958
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Originally from Aotearoa, Brigid is a teacher, writer and researcher based in Naarm. She enjoys learning from students and collaborating with peers.
Her current roles include Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) with A/Professor Rachel Wilson, and co-director of the non/fictionLab research group with A/Professor Jessica Wilkinson.
She coordinates three undergraduate Literary Studies courses: Literary Environments, Reading Space & Place and Writers on Writing and supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students.
Awards:
2021 - Shortlisted for AUHE (Australian University Heads of English) Prize for Literary Scholarship and the Walter McRae Russell award for literary scholarship
2016 - Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre Fellowship
2015 - Honorary Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria, 2015-2016
2008 - Early Career Researcher Award, RMIT University
Research fields
- 4705 Literary studies
- 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
- 36 Creative arts and writing
Supervisor projects
- The Lives We Never Knew reconstructing an identity through autofiction while living with dying
- 21 Jun 2023
- Decolonising practice and positionality for publication: folklore, emigration and alienation through speculative fiction/non-fiction methodology.
- 20 Feb 2023
- Voice Ethics and Power in Writing and Publishing
- 23 Jan 2023
- The Psychologist of Houses: Creatively writing the phenomenon of home and emotional homeostasis.
- 31 Dec 2022
- The Tale of Munya and the Djinni Prince: Exploring Australian-Muslim Writing Practice through Islamic Cosmology
- 17 Mar 2022
- Making Mischief: the naughty disposition in a non-fiction creative writing practice
- 1 Mar 2022
- Memoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: Speculating on the Intimate and Complex Histories of a Personally Significant Place
- 1 Jan 2022
- Intimate Sensing in Climate Research
- 19 Mar 2020
- The Blue House/ On Flower Time: A Slow Methodology for Experimental Life Writing
- 21 Jun 2019
- Book Contracts and the Post Negotiation Space. Lifting the Lid on Publishing's Black Box of Aspirations, Laws and Money
- 22 Jan 2018
- Bodies Beyond the Skin: Queer and Camp Inquiries of Australian Landscape Photography
- 1 Mar 2017
- FINDING HOME: A Field Journal of Creative Writing Experimentation for Exploring the Adoptive Identity
- 1 Mar 2017
- Across the Gap: Writing third-generation Holocaust literature
- 10 Apr 2015
- Soundproof: Reading Fictional Music from Proust to Mann
- 2 Mar 2015
- Writing in the Dark
- 8 Aug 2014
- The Museum of the Lost and Found: A Creative Practice Approach to Telling Adoptees' Stories
- 31 Mar 2014
- TWITCH GOTHIC: An Exploration of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Australian Gothic Short Fiction
- 3 Mar 2014
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
History of the Book
Place-making
Literary Geographies
Authorship
Publishing
Australian Literature
Eco-Literature
Climate Fiction
Reading cultures
Supervisor projects:
Antonia Strakosch (2017) ‘Across the Gap: Writing third-generation Holocaust literature’
Yvette Harvey (2018) ‘Twitch Gothic: The Female Protagonist in Australian Short Fiction’
Janice Simpson (2019) ‘The Museum of the Lost & Found’
Annalea Beattie (2020) ‘Writing in the Dark’
Victoria Kenworthy (2020) ‘Soundproof: Reading Fictional Music from Proust to Mann’
Catherine Williams (2020) ‘Intimate sensing in Climate Research’
Laura Fulton (2020) ‘Finding Home: A Field Journal of Creative Writing Experimentation for Exploring the Adoptive Identity’
Katherine Day (2021) ‘Book Contracts and the Post Negotiation Space. Lifting the Lid on Publishings Black Box of Aspirations, Laws and Money’
Rees Quilford (2024) 'Memoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: Speculating on the intimate and complex histories of a personally significant place'
Program:
Creative Writing and Literary Studies (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/communication/communication-and-writing)
Research interests
Brigid's research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the intersections between literary production and physical environments. Her areas of expertise include the history of the book, literature and place-making, contemporary Australian literature & publishing and reading cultures.
She is the author of Locating Australian Literary Memory (Anthem 2019) and chief investigator of an ARC Special Research Initiative Project, ‘Reading in the Mallee: The Literary Past and Future of an Australian Region’ Her forthcoming book, The Transtasman Literary Region, will be published by Peter Lang in 2025.
Research keywords
Literary geographies, Place-making, Literary heritage, Australian authorship, Reading cultures, Literary materialities
