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Dr Vicki Crowley
Position: Senior Lecturer Dr Vicki Crowley
Division/Portfolio: Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
School/Unit: School of Communication
Campus: Magill Campus
Office: C2-09
Telephone: +61 8 830 24547
Fax: +61 8 830 24745
Email: Vicki_dot_Crowley_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Vicki.Crowley

Research Portfolio Leader, School of Communication

Coodinator Cultures of the Body Research Cluster

Vicki Crowley began her teaching career as an art teacher in Victoria before moving to Alice Springs and teaching at Amoonguna Settlement for three years. She then became a secondary teacher of English and Social Studies and Yirara College (a government residential secondary college for Indigenous students). Following this she completed a Masters thesis, A Case Study of Aboriginal Students in Secondary Education and then completed a PhD at the University of Queensland in 1997. She was the Program Director of the Anangu Teacher Education Program – Yipirinya with the South Australian College of Advanced Education for two years. She was then a lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the Aboriginal Studies and Teacher Education Centre (SACAE-Underdale/Faculty of Aboriginal Studies) before moving to the School of Communication, University of South Australia where she taught in gender studies and cultural and communication studies. Vicki is currently the Coordinator of the Cultures of the Body Research Group and was the Research Portfolio Director for the School of Communication, 2006-07.For three yearrs Vicki served as the Chair of the Board of Feast, Adelaide's Lesbian, Gay and Queer Cultural festival. In 2005 she participated in a two-day seminar with Professor Judith Butler at the University of Western Sydney and in April, 2006 visited Professor Butler at Berkeley and participated in Professor Butler’s course: “Rhetoric 2406: Performance: Embodied Practices/Social Fields”. She also led a Judith Butler Seminar with the Hawke Institute of Sustainable Societies in August, 2005 and a Butler seminar in the co-hosted School of Art and School of Communication Before and Beyond Seminar Series in 2007. Her main theoretical traditions are cultural and gender studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory and education. Her research and teaching continue to focus on issues of public discourses and convivial politics. Current work in progress includes a monograph, Key Critical Thinkers in Education: Butler for Sense Publishers B.V., Rotterdam.


AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE: [Vocabulary] “… and yet”: soma::lexis::dancier by Vicki Crowley , and, [Ignition 5 - Reincarnation] Resurface, transfigure, transform: cartographies of flow by Vicki Crowley

Teaching interests

  • Cultural politics of the body
  • Post-coloniliality and cosmpolitanism
  • Public Pedagogy
  • Queer Theory

I teach the following courses

COMM 1033Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies
COMM 3014Communication Practicum 2
COMM 8001Communication Issues and Methods 1: Reading Research
HUMS 2032Gender, Sexualities, Race and Representation
HUMS 3038Hot Bodies, Cool Flesh: Sex, Race and the Visual Body
LANG 1008Honours Research Methods H

Professional associations

Cultural Studies Association Australia

American Education Research Association

Cultures of the Body Research Cluster, UniSA

Referee for Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal & Tropical Health, Northern Territory

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)

Master of Education (Flinders University)

Bachelor of Education (South Australian College of Advanced Education)

Diploma of Teaching (Coburg Teachers College, Melbourne)

Research interests

  • Cultural politics of the body
  • Post-coloniliality and cosmpolitanism
  • Public Pedagogy
  • Queer Theory

Research publications

Forthcoming publications

Crowley, V. (forthcoming ) Disorderly narratives, public pedagogies and reconciliation. In Hattam, Robert, Matthews, Julie, Christie, Pam and Bishop, Peter (eds.)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Crowley, V (2008) Body, gender, Gurlesque, intersex, in Anderson, N & Schlunke, K (eds) Cultural Theory and Everyday Practice. London & New York, Oxford University Press

Crowley, V. (2007) wrappers from South Africa, postcards from Adelaide in Nygard, G & Carter, N (eds) Vibrant. Lythrum Press, Adelaide, pp.46-57

Loeser, C. & Crowley, V. (2006) Audible acts: The theatre of hearing (Dis)abled masculinities. In Jonathan Bollen & Bruce Parr (eds) What A Man’s Gotta Do. Armidale: University of New England Press (DEST Accredited)

Crowley, V. (2004) ‘Perverse hybridisations, queering postcolonial pedagogies’. In A. Hickling-Hudson, J. Matthews & A. Woods (eds.) Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education. Flaxton: PostPressed, pp. 175-192.

Crowley, V. (2003) ‘Drag kings down under: An archive and introspective of a few Aussie blokes’. In D. Troka, K. LeBesco & J. Noble (eds.) The Drag King Anthology. New York: Hayworth Press, pp. 285-308.

Crowley, V. (1999) ‘Witches, faggots, dykes and poofters: Moments of danger and frisson in education, policy and curriculum’. In Sears, J. & Epstein, D. A Dangerous Knowing. (Eds.) London: Cassell, 1999, pp. 210-225.

Crowley, V. (1998) ‘Towards a postcolonial curriculum: Postcolonialism and the new millennium’. In Johnson, B. & Reid, A. (Eds.) (Re)Shaping the Curriculum in Australian Schools: Critical Analysis of Contemporary Debates. ACT: Social Science Press, pp. 100-112.

Crowley, V. (1997) ‘From the streets of Tottenham to Antipodean South Australia: Seduction and dilemmas in the travels of anti-racism’. In Sykes, P., & Rizvi, F. (Eds.) Racism, Justice and Educational Research. London: Trentham, pp. 75-84.

Rizvi, F & Crowley, V. (1993) ‘Teachers and contradictions of culturalism’. In Gajendra K. Verma (ed), Inequality and Teacher Education: An International Perspective. London: Falmer, pp.144-64.

Rizvi, F & Crowley, V. (1993) 'Ethnicity and the curriculum’. In D. Smith (ed), Australian Curriculum Reform: Action and Reaction. ACT: Australian Curriculum Studies Association with Social Science Press, pp. 40-49.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Crowley, V. and Loeser, C. (2009) 'The Potentialities of Post-essentialist Pedagogy', The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences vol. 29.

Crowley, V. & Rasmussen, M.L. (2009) After dark in the antipodes: Pedagogy, place and queer phenomenology. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 22 Issue 6 2009 ISSN: 0951-8398 Online ISSN: 1366-5898

Loeser, C. & Crowley, V. (2009) A Natural Ear for Music?: Hearing (Dis)abled Masculinities, Journal of Popular Music.

Crowley, V. & Matthews, J., Mariko. (2006) Museum, memorial and mall: postcolonialism, pedagogies, racism and reconciliation. Pedagogy, Culture and Society Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 263-277

Crowley, V. (2004) ‘Within the new moment: An interview with Judith Halberstam’. Discourse, Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 459-466.

Crowley, V & Rasmussen, M. (2004) ‘Introduction, Queer education, Special edition’. Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Carfax.

Crowley, V. (2002) ‘The unforgiving scalpel, clinical precision, and the untold of gender’. Australia Education Researcher, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 145-159.

Crowley, V. (2002) ‘Unseen genders: Beyond the binaries, social alternatives’.

Crowley, V. (2001) ‘Acts of memory and imagination: Reflections on women’s suffrage and the centenary celebrations of suffrage in South Australia, 1994’. Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 16, No. 35, pp. 225-240.

Crowley, V. (2000) ‘Rethinking indigenous education: Culturalism, colonialism and the politics of knowing’. Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

Crowley, V. (1998) ‘Reading in the Antipodes: Postcolonialism, pedagogy and racism’. Discourse, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 291-301.

Crowley, V. & McConaghy, C. (1998) ‘Introduction: Postcolonialism, feminism and pedagogies’. Discourse, 19, 3, pp. 269-274.

Rea and Crowley, V. (1998) ‘Postcolonialism considered: An interview with digital artist, Rea’. Discourse, Vol 19, No. 3, pp.355-360.

Crowley, V & Gibson, S. (1996) ‘Out there, talking the talk inside the HIV/AIDS pandemic’. Social Alternatives, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.3-4.

Crowley, V & Rizvi, F. (1996) ‘Guest editor’s introduction’. Social Alternatives, Vol. 15, No 4, p.3-4.

Crowley, V (1996) ‘Where do I stand? Different locations in a “gay epidemic”’. Social Alternatives, Vol. 15, No. 4, p.5.

Nicholls, C., Crowley, V., & Watt, R. (1996) ‘Theorising Aboriginal education: Surely it’s time to move on?’ Australian Education, Issue 33, pp.6-9.

Crowley, V. (1996) ‘Rea: Eye/I’mma Black Piece: The white gaze speaking its looking in reflection’. BROADsheet, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp.16-17.

Crowley, V. (1995) ‘Community, research and writing ethics’. Conference proceedings, Information and Papers from the HIV/AIDS Social Research Forum, “Out There.” HIV/AIDS Program Unit, South Australian Health Commissions, pp. 11-18.

Crowley, V. (1993) ‘Aboriginality and feminism: An interview with Eva Johnson’. Social Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.13-16.

Rizvi, F & Crowley, V. (1993) ‘Introduction, Special edition’. Social Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.3-4.

Crowley, V. (1993) ‘Teaching Aboriginal studies: Some problems of culturalism in an inner city school’. Aboriginal Child At School, Vol. 21, pp. 33-44.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Crowley, V.“I will survive!” Reflections on the making of a queer anthem. QUENCH: To satisfy a Thirst Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival. 16-17 November, 2008. Adelaide.

Loeser, C. & Crowley, V. ‘A natural ear for music? Hearing (dis)abled masculinities’ , STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: The Mainstream and its Discontents, IASPM-ANZ Conference, 28-30 November 2008 The Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia

Baylis, Troy-Anthony & Crowley, Vicki, The subterranean making of convivial culture: Mary G, Kaboobie and queer interventions. Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities, , Flinders University, 3-6 December, 2007

Crowley, V (2007) A rhizome of deafness: Becoming deaf in the workplace. Paper presented, Ordinary Lives, Narratives of Disability Symposium, University of South Australia, 16-17 November, 2007

Crowley, V. Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Perth, December, 2005.

Crowley, V. ‘“Kinship of the Abnormals”, Body citadel and citizen: Antigone’s Claim and the Parlous conditions of our times’, Presentation at the HRISS & Cultures of the Body “Big Thinkers” Series, Judith Butler. University of South Australia, 12 August, 2005.

Crowley, V. ‘Forgiving connections and kinship of the abnormals: A passionate meditation of postcolonial inheritances’, Postcolonialism Symposium, Invited panelist: American Education Research Association, Montreal, April, 2005.

Crowley, V. ‘Being and becoming: Towards a corporeal generosity’, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, Fremantle, December, 2004.

Crowley, V. ‘Drag kings down under: Musicality and the making of masculinities’, Sonics-Synergies: Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, 17-23 July 2003.

Crowley, V. ‘”Clothes maketh the man”: Fashion, gender and the urban drag king’, Making an Appearance: Fashion, Dress, and Consumption, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, 10-13 July, 2003.

Crowley, V. & Black, L. ‘Moving transitionings-corporeal choreographies: Experience, dialogue and body motility’, Body Modification: Changing Bodies, Changing Selves Conference, Macquarie University, 24-26 April 2003.

Crowley, V. & Tan, K. ‘From city to Semaphore: Spatial relations in Queer Adelaide’, Out from the Centre, Queer Studies Conference, University of Newcastle, 29-30 October 2002. (Photography by Kate Borrett, Vicki Crowley & Debbie Epstein.)

Crowley, V. ‘When Kellie snogs a girl: Popular culture, new carnalities and edging the mainstream’, Ute Culture: The Utility of Culture and the Uses of Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Cultural Studies Association of Australia, 5-7, 2002.

Crowley, V. & Tan, K. ‘From city to Semaphore: Spatial relations in Queer Adelaide’, Panel paper presented in “Who’s Left Out of Theory? Queer Space and Citizenship”. Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Annual Conference, Hobart, University of Tasmania. 8-10 December 2001. (Photography by Kate Borrett, Vicki Crowley & Debbie Epstein.)

Crowley, V. & Borrett, K. ‘Kiss and tell: Taking pleasure in perversity’, Panel paper presented in “Wounded Identities and the aesthetics of pleasure in educational contexts”. Australian Association for Research In Education, Fremantle, WA, 2-6 December 2001.

Crowley, V. ‘Academic freedom and other perverse pleasures’, Opening address to Inner Sanctums Bifurcating Selves: Navigating cultural worlds and educational contexts. A Feast and University of South Australia Conference, Adelaide, 19-29 November 2001.

Crowley, V. ‘Perverse hybridizations, queering postcolonial pedagogy or, The world as foreign land: Hyphenated identities and hybrid realities’, Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education Conference. University of Queensland, St Lucia, 17-19 August 2001.

Crowley, V. ‘Seriously disturbing gender’, Australian Education Research Association, Annual Conference, Sydney, 4-6 December, 2000.

Crowley, V. ‘Lesbian identities – You can’t judge a Leso by her outer: Or can’t you just!’, Invited chair and paper presented at Feast Forums, 31 October 2000. Waterside, Nile Street, Port Adelaide. Feast 2000, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival October 20-November 12.

Crowley, V. ‘The politics of perverts – Drag matters in Queer Adelaide. Invited chair and panelist’, Feast Forums, 30 October 2000. CAOS Café, Feast 2000, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival October 20-November 12. (Photography by Kate Borrett)

Crowley, V. & Tan, K. (2000) ‘From city to Semaphore: Spatial relations in Queer Adelaide’, Tales of the City, Hawke Institute, Art Gallery of South Australia. 28 June 2000. (Photography by Kate Borrett, Vicki Crowley & Debbie Epstein)

Crowley, V. ‘Jana meets Toni: The Australian racial imaginary and the problematic ideation of whiteness’, Postcoloniality: Cultural Studies Representing Difference, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Adelaide, 4-6 December 1998.

Crowley, V. ‘The emptiness of the promise: grief, loss and 1998’, Reading Australia. Adelaide University, 27 November 1998.

Crowley, V. ‘Thinking pink in the ivory tower: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies in Australian Universities’. Panel member, Feast Forum. Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival, November 8 1998.

Crowley, V. ‘Racism and its articulations: The cultural politics of teaching in Australia’, American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, San Diego, 13-17 April 1998.

Crowley, V. & Tan, K. ‘From city to Semaphore: Spatial relations in Queer Adelaide’, Hawke Conference series, Tales of the City. Museum of South Australia, 1998. Crowley, V. ‘The darkness before our eyes’, Paper presented to 6th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Adelaide, 22-26 April 1996.

Crowley, V. ‘Witches, faggots, dykes and poofters: Moments of danger and frisson in higher education’, American Education Research Association, New York, 8-12 April 1996.

Crowley, V. ‘Rea: Eye/I’mma Black Piece: The white gaze speaking its looking in reflection’, Public Forum, Telstra Adelaide Festival 1996 Visual Arts, Adelaide March 1-17, paper presented 14 March 1996.

Crowley, V. ‘Remembering racism: Autobiography of the cultural politics of anti-racism’, Paper presented at the international conference Education for Cultural Democracy - A Global Perspective. Adelaide, South Australia, 19-24 May 1994.

Nicholls, C. Crowley, V. & Watt, R. ‘Black and white education: The cultural politics of Aboriginal learning styles’, Racism Conference, University of Technology Sydney, December 1993.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Crowley, V. "I witness": Vocabularies of recognition, responsibility, forgiveness and vulnerability. Invited Discussant. Paper in the Symposium. 'Unsettling Times: "Reconciliation" as a resource for pedagogy' [Postcolonial Studies and Education Special Interest Group] American Education Research Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 7th-11th, 2006

Crowley, V. 'Reading culture, reading subjectivity: Collisions in identity, anti-racism and Aboriginal studies’. Invited inaugural paper in Centre for Indigenous Australian Cultural Studies series 'Indigenous Australian Cultural Studies’.

Crowley, V. ‘Re-Take: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photography’. Hawke Conversation Series, University of South Australia, Invited from Gallery 11, November, 1999 with Kelly Gelatley (exhibition curator) & Kristie Parker (Director, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute).

Crowley, V. ‘Exceeding femininities: Drag kings and the citational practices of gender’. Presented at the Centre for Research on Education & Gender, University of London, 23 August, 1999. Invited by Professor D. Epstein; Violence and Homophobia Research Team, University of Lancaster invitation for Prof. B. Skeggs; University of Mount St Vincent, Nova Scotia – invitation by Ass Prof. B. Frank; Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, invitation by Prof D. Kayatt.

Crowley, V. ‘Queer beginnings: Looking at our past, where we have come from and the development of queer theory’. Out-Raging: Queer Collaborations Conference, Adelaide 5-9 July 1999. Invitation from organising committee, University Pride Collectives Annual National Conference, the Flinders University.

Crowley, V. ‘Engaging scripts and scripting the “posts”: Interviews, educational research, poststructuralism, postmodernity and postcoloniality’. Postgraduate seminar series, University of South Australia. June 4, 1999.

Crowley, V. ‘Viewing blakness: Negroid travels and the Australian racial imaginary’. Screen Studies, Flinders University, May 19, 1999. Invited by Dr Julia Erhart.

Crowley, V. ‘Queer families forum’ Midsumma (Melbourne, Lesbian, Gay, Queer Festival). Pilgrim Centre, Prahran, 23 January 1999. Invited by panel convenor Mr Greg Curran & Festival Director.

Crowley, V. 'Researching gender and racism in contemporary Australia'. University of California, Irvine. April 12-14, 1998. Invitation from Professor Rey Chow, UC-Irvine.

Crowley, V. 'The construction of whiteness'. One-day workshop at Flinders University. Invited Discussant to papers, “Ruth Frankenberg and Australian Whiteness”. Invitation from Prof. S. Sheridan, Drs J. Haggis & S. Schech. 12 January 1997.

Crowley, V. ‘Reconciliation: What is it? Should Queers Say Sorry’ Blak ‘n Out, Indigenous Lesbian & Gay and Sister Girl Cultural festival as part of Feast, Adelaide Lesbian & Gay Cultural Festival. Invited Panellist, Wednesday 1 November, Tandanya Theatre. Invited by Chair of Panel, Kaurna Elder, Rodney Junga-Williams.

VISUAL ARTS PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Crowley, V. ‘Queens green and home delivery’. Catalogue essay for Cups and Coupling, Amanda Andlee Poland Solo Exhibition. Premier Art Gallery, Rundle Street, Adelaide. 28 October- 19 November, 2005

Crowley, V. “…And yet”: Soma :: Logos:: Dancier. Program essay for Vocabulary, Australian Dance Theatre and Restless Dance, inSpace, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, July 28 to August 6, 2005.

Crowley, V. Resurface, transfigure, transform: Cartographies of flow. Program essay for Australian Dance Theatre. Ignition 5, May, 2004.

Somers, C.K. Sexing the Difference: A personal journey of an Intersex Person – Public seminar with an Introduction by Michael Noble. Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia in collaboration with Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival. 15 November 2002.

McDonald, L. & Crowley, V. Rocket “trans(act)ualities” in The Cradle Room @ The Hub, Imaginauts Collective, Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2002.

Crowley, V. Introduce. Clinton Nain. ”The Bleach is Blak”. The Flinders University Art Museum, Grote Street Adelaide, 31 October 2000. Feast 2000, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival October 20-November 12. Speaker and Feast Representative at Exhibition Opening.

Crowley, V. EYE/I'MMABLAKPIECE. Catalogue essay, Empire & I: Terra Incognita, Pittsanger Manor Gallery, London, Jan-Mar 1999; Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, July, 1999. Traveling Europe, 2000 (re-written essay for North Atlantic audience)

Crowley, V. Bruce, S. You Can Brush My Hair, Catalogue essay, SEAS Gallery, Hindley Street, Adelaide, Feast Festival, 22 Oct –8 November 1998.

Crowley, V. My (b)LAK (h)ART, Catalogue essay for Remanence, Old Melbourne Jail, The Melbourne Festival. 17-27 October 1999.

Crowley, V. Histories That Tell. Catalogue essay in EYE/I’MMABLAKPIECE. Rea, solo exhibition, Boomali Aboriginal Arts Gallery as part of the Sydney Festival of the Dreaming/Olympic Arts Festival, 10 September – 8 October, 1997.

Crowley, V. & Blanche, F. 'And then you sort of connect up, ... ' Community Arts Installation within the Centenary of Women's Suffrage Celebrations, Max Hart Gallery, Univ. SA, Underdale, 5-28 Oct. 1994.

Blanch, F. & Crowley, V. …And then you sort of connect up VHS. 12 minutes.

Crowley, V Contributing consultant to Australian dDnce Theatre Ignition 7 ,"Gender Studies",. 12-28 October, 2007.

COMMUNITY ARTS PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Crowley, V. Inner Sanctums, Bifurcating Selves: Navigating cultural worlds and educational contexts. Two-day conference, University of South Australia 19-20 October 2001. Conference opening Prof. Anton D’Ik, anthropologist and freelance scholar. Invited guests Day 1: Conversation 1: Telling tales and showing videos with Rodney Junga Williams, Mary Heath, Julia Erhart; Conversation 2: The intimacies and pleasures of food and politics with Carol Johnson, Paul Van Reyk; Conversation 3 Waking up to justice with Julie Marcus, Polly Sumner, Joan Russell. Conversation 4: From sexual scenery to domestic archive with Alan Brotherton, Sally Gibson, Ros Prosser. Day 2: Conversation 1: Gazing at the straight people with Mary Lou Rasmussen & Valerie Harwood; Conversation 2: Quiet please! There’s a lady on stage with David McInnes and Murray Couch; Conversation 3: Jane Flentje & Eleanor Doig; Conversation 4: In, out, or elsewhere: sexualities and safety in school with Deborah Youdell & Michelle Parker. Outcome: Forthcoming special edition of Discourse.

Crowley, V. ‘Lesbian Identities – You can’t judge a leso by her Outer’, Special Feast Forum associated with the play The Marigold Hour. Organise, introduce and anchor panel of invited speakers. Sunday 5 November, Waterside, Port Adelaide. Invitation from Catherine Fitzgerald, Director, Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre.

Crowley, V. & Borrett, K. ‘Pleasure Pony Productions’, Sexual Scenery, Feast Forums, Tuesday 7 November 2000. Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival, 2001. Produced and directed panel with invited artists and performers.

Crowley, V & Pahl, R. Co-hosts. The Politics of Perverts: Drag Matters in Queer Adelaide. Feast Forums, 30 October 2000. Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival.

Crowley, V & Borrett, K. Pleasure Pony Productions. Kiss and Tell. Feast Forums, 2 November 1999. Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival, 1999. Produced and directed panel with invited artists and performers.

Crowley, V. Chair and panellist, Thinking Pink in the Ivory Tower Two. Feast Forums, Feast, Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival.

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Cultural Studies

  • Communication
  • Sexualities
  • Cultural Studies

Community Service

Organisation Name:   Feast - Adelaide Lesbian & Gay Cultural Festival
Section:   Feast Forums Advisory Group
Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.feast.org.au
Level of involvement:   Former Chair (2001-2003)
Year from:   1998
Year to:   2008

Research Degree Supervisor

CURRENT AREAS OF PhD SUPERVISION - Current thesis topics (working titles)

'Writing on the ashes: Seeking responsibility, truth and forgiveness in the archives of genocide'

'Towards a new cosmopolitanism: Film and the other in the other'

'Coming home: Conceptualising sense of place in small towns'

'Gender, Addiction and Place: A case study of women and addiction in Nova Scotia'

'Queerly Inside: Multi-layered narratives about schooling and family by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer parents and their children'

'Men, masculinity and the media'


PhD COMPLETIONS

Dr Tania Caporaso. Thesis Title: 'Negotiating places to call ’Home’: The lived and gendered resettlement experiences of refugee women'

Terry Evans. Thesis Title: '"Not Gay": Adventurous sex, desiring men' (under examination)

Dr Katrina Jaworski. Thesis Title: 'The Gender of Suicide'

Dr Cassandra Loeser. Thesis Title: 'Embodiment, ethics and the ear: constructions of masculine subjectivity by young men with hearing disabilities in contemporary Australia'

Dr Don Ellis. Thesis Title: 'The hidden hand and the fluid object: Craft in three sites of representation' (with Pat Thompson & Marie Brennan)

Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen. Thesis Title: 'Becoming Subjects: A case study of the production of sexualities in high school students in Australia and the United States of America' (with Jane Kenway)









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