Brigid Magner

Dr Brigid Magner

Senior Lecturer

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Contact details

DSCSchool of Media and Communication


non/fictionLab


Climate change action and research network (CCARN)


Emailbrigid.magner@rmit.edu.au


Phone: +61 4103 55213


Campus: Melbourne City


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Profile photo of Brigid Magner facing slightly to the right and smiling towards the camera against a solid white background

Contact details

DSCSchool of Media and Communication


non/fictionLab


Climate change action and research network (CCARN)


Emailbrigid.magner@rmit.edu.au


Phone: call via Teams


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

More information

 - Academia


Originally from Aotearoa, Brigid is a teacher, writer and researcher based in Naarm. She enjoys learning from students and collaborating with peers.

Overview

Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies in the School of Media & Communication. Her research is primarily focussed on the relationships between literature and place. 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’ (with Emily Potter and Torika Bolatagici).

Brigid coordinates the Teachers@Work seminar series and is a member of the Reducing Climate Anxiety community of practice and CCARN (Climate change action and research network).

She teaches into three undergraduate units: Literary Environments, Reading Space & Place and Contemporary Australian Writing and supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students.

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Industry experience

Co-editor of the Journal of Australian Studies

Secretary of ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature)

Executive member of InASA (International Australian Studies Association)

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Research

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.

Research keywords

Literary geographies, Place-making, Literary heritage, Australian authorship, Reading cultures, Literary materialities

Research output summary

25

Publications

3

Grants

5

Awards

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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’

Feature publications

Locating Australian Literary Memory

Anthem Press

Brigid Magner. (2019).

Messy mapping: activating student lifeworlds through the handmade visual analysis of a literary text

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Brigid Magner.  (2021).

Recognising the Mallee: Reading Groups and the Making of Literary Knowledge in Regional Australia

Mémoire du Live/Studies in Book Culture, 12.1

Brigid Magner. (2021).

Key publications by year

  • With Emily Potter. (2022).‘Re-writing the colonial river: Fabienne Bayet-Charlton’s Watershed and Murray River narratives’, Women and Water in Global Fiction, London: Routledge.
  • With Peta Murray. (2022). ‘Putting the Imp into Imposter Syndrome’, Imposter Syndrome as a Public Feeling in Higher Education Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Messy mapping: activating student lifeworlds through the handmade visual analysis of a literary text’ (2021). Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
  • With Bonny Cassidy & Linda Daley. TEXT ‘Techniques and technologies of teaching with sovereign knowledges’ (2021). TEXT journal October.
  • A talented daughter of the Mallee: Myra Morris meets Regional readers. (2021). Australian Literary Studies, October.
  • 'A Glassy Sort of Rainbow’, (2021). Sydney Review of Books, Powerful & Moving series, May.
  • 'Recognising the Mallee: Reading Groups and the Making of Literary Knowledge in Regional Australia’, (2021). Mémoire du Live/Studies in Book Culture, 12.1

  • (2020). ‘Brothers and Sisters of the Mallee: Book talk between isolated readers through timeWesterly journal, December
  • With Tracy O’Shaughnessy. (2020). ‘Monstering the Midlist: Implications for author income and publishing sustainability’, Australian Humanities Review special issue edited by Millicent Weber and Alexandra Dane

  • With Emily Potter ‘Shared reading in the Victorian MalleeLegacies of Australian Publishing, Monash University Publishing.
  • With Emily Potter. (2019). ‘Kurangk/Coorong Atmospheres’, TEXT journal April, 2019
  • (2019).Locating Australian Literary Memory, Anthem Press, London.

  • (2018). ‘He didn’t pay his rent! Commemorating Adam Lindsay Gordon in BrightonLa Trobe Journal, September no. 10

  • (2017). ‘In Chauncy Vale’ Island magazine (creative non fiction essay)
  • With Emily Potter. (2017).  ‘Australian literary geographies: Repression, recovery, re-writing’ Literary Geographies, issue 4 December.

  • (2016). ‘Henry Lives!: Learning from Lawson fandom’ M/C journal Vol 19, No 4.
  • (2016). '”Looking through time itself”: Henry Handel Richardson and the haunting of Lake View’, Literary Geographies, vol. 1 issue 2, pp. 195-212.
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Feature projects

Reading in the Mallee: The Past and Future of a Literary Region

ARC SRI Project, Deakin University

2021 - 2023

Key projects

  • Walking Writing (with Francesca Rendle-Short, Melody Ellis, Peta Murray, Oliver Shaw & Sholto Buck)
  • Audiobook reading cultures (with Linda Daley)
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Awards


Commendation for the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Strategic Contributions to Learning and Teaching: Initiatives that exemplify RMIT’s Commitment to Reconciliation in the Curriculum

Award date: 2020

Recipients: Brigid Magner, Linda Daley, Bonny Cassidy, Rebecca Hill

Vice-Chancellor’s award for Contributions to Scholarly Learning & Teaching Culture

Award date: 2019

Recipients: Brigid Magner

Key awards by year

  • Shortlisted for AUHE (Australian University Heads of English) Prize for Literary Scholarship and the Walter McRae Russell award for literary scholarship

  • Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre Fellowship

  • Honorary Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria, 2015-2016

  • Early Career Researcher Award, RMIT University
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Grants

  • Walking the Murray, Reading Mildura, funded by Mildura Rural City Council, A/Prof Emily Potter, Dr Brigid Magner (2018)
  • 'Reading in the Mallee; The Past and Future of a Literary Region'. funded by the ARC, Emily Potter, Brigid Magner and Torika Bolatagici (2021)
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Public and media engagements

2021

2020

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.