Dr Kerrie Davies
D.ARTS (Literary Journalism)
My areas of research are life writing; literary journalism / creative non-fiction and their intersection with new forms and media.
I teach new media such as Virtual Reality Documentaries and digital news blogging.
I'm currently writing a speculative biography to be published by Allen and Unwin in 2024 and I am the author of A Wife's Heart (2017) that combines memoir and biography of single parenting.My research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Life Writing, Literary Journalism Studies, the Australian Journalism Review, and more widely in the Conversation, as well as forthcoming chapters in international publications.
My research has attracted national media impact, and I have appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival; the Brisbane Writers Festival and the National Folk Festival.
I currently supervise thesis projects in literary journalism / creative non fiction and life writing (biography, memoir)..
My teaching and research is underpinned by over a decade's professional practice in national media publications including the Weekend Australian and Vogue Australia.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Books
Davies, K. 2017. A Wife's Heart. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
Book Chapters
Davies, K & McDonald, M. 2022. Female “Vagabond” or Stunt Reporter? The Undercover Literary Journalism of Australian Colonial Journalist Catherine Hay Thomson. J.Bak & B.Reynolds (Eds). The. Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism. Routledge.
Journal Articles
Davies, K.. 2022. Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis, Life Writing. online first.
Davies, K. 2021 Aunt Becky Goes Rogue: De-Celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues. Celebrity Studies. online first.
Davies, K. 2019. The flâneur as a motif of timelessness in auto / biography. Text. online first.
Creative works
Davies, K. 2023. 'The problem is that my success gets in his way': The fraught terrain of literary marriages. 23 June. The Conversation.
Davies, K. 2020. Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals. 17 January. The Conversation.
My Research Supervision
PhD Creative Practice (Life writing)
Cathy Perkins: Three Scarlet Women: The Lives of Betty Roland, Catherine Duncan and Oriel Gray.
My Teaching
I currently teach Multiplatform Journalism, News Fundamentals and Masters Online Publication Practice.
I'm available to supervise across literary journalism / creative non fiction, life writing such as memoir and biography, and other forms of creative writing.