Associate Professor Linda Daley
Details
College: School of Media & Communication
Department: School - Media & Communication
Campus: City Campus Australia
linda.daley@rmit.edu.au
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 current 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.
She has extensive leadership experience in managing undergraduate, Higher Degree by Research, and Honours programs. She is a member of RMIT's Academic Board Education Committee.
Linda is the coordinator for the Literary Studies minor in the School of Media & Communication, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Australian Studies.
Linda is a Fellow of RMIT's Regenerative Futures Institute.
Supervisor projects
- Poetic Bricolage and the Enlanguaged Self
- 31 Jul 2026
- niyakara tabalti: dreaming beyond the archive
- 24 Feb 2026
- Potentially queer: A new creative approach to writing historical fiction
- 13 Feb 2026
- Drowning the Anthropocene: Writing a fluid connection with self, nature and the Other
- 29 May 2025
- History’s Fiction: Novel Negotiations with the Past.
- 30 Jan 2025
- Baiyiya Mulana Murrangurang: Song, Sovereignty, Practice
- 19 Dec 2023
- Subjects, Citizens, Journalism: The politics of communication democracy
- 10 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
- Re/producing a Maternal Genealogy: from the sea to the mouth, a Radio Art Project
- 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
Linda teaches in the Literary Studies minor the courses Literature’s Ethics and Narrating the Self.
Linda has successfully supervised 22 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
The ethics, politics and aesthetics of literature; histories and practices of reading cultures; pedagogical design and practices.
