- Dean (Learning & Teaching), Griffith University
My research began as an investigation of tropes of sickness and disease in Quebec's literary and political writing. I sought to critique the notion, based on the concept of the body politic, that allusions to sickness are a reflection of "sick" nationhood.
Since then, I have translated my interest in social and cultural uses of the body to more contemporary phenomena. I am undertaking research into health campaigns and fundraising initiatives that call on participants to use or modify their bodies for a cause. This has developed into a major project looking at Temporary Sobriety Iniatives as a way to link behaviour change, cultural change, the body and philanthropy.
Experience
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2013–presentSenior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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2022–presentDean (Learning & Teaching), Griffith University
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2022–presentProfessor, Griffith University
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2019–2021Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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2019–2021Associate Dean Teaching & Learning, University of Technology Sydney
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2010–2013Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Education
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2009University of Michigan, Romance Languages and Literatures
Publications
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2016Temporary Sobriety Initiatives: Emergence, Possibilities and Constraints, Continuum
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2016Curative Illnesses: Medico-National Allegory in Québécois Fiction, McGill-Queen's University Press
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2015Temporary sobriety initiatives as public pedagogy: Windows of opportunity for embodied learning, Health
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