QUALIFICATIONS
Current Ph.D. by Research (Women's Studies) - College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
2015 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours - First Class) - South Australian School of Art, The University of South Australia
2012 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Art History and Theory) - South Australian School of Art, The University of South Australia
2008 Certificate IV, Women's Studies - TAFE SA
ACADEMIC TEACHING
Position: Sessional teaching staff
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
2017- current
Gender, Power and Change: Introducing Feminist Debates
Course tutor, semester two, 2017
Course coordinator and lecturer, semester two, 2018
Position: Sessional teaching staff
School of Art, Architecture and Design, The University of South Australia
2013- current
Textiles: Fibre and Structure
Course coordinator, lecturer, 2014- current
Textiles: Print and Dye
Course coordinator, lecturer, 2014- current
Foundation Studies: Textiles Workshop
Lecturer, 2014-current
Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Course coordinator, lecturer, Semester two, 2016
Reading Visual Culture 1
Tutor, 2013- 2016
Reading Visual Culture 2
Tutor, 2013-2016
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Subversive Stitches: Activist Needlework in Australian Feminist Art of the 1970s,’ Everyday Revolutions, edited by Michelle Arrow and Angela Wollacott, ANU Press, to be published 2018.
'From Stitching by Candlelight to Crafting Online: Textiles, Self-representation and Continuing Histories of Subversive Stitches,' Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, edited by Sarah-Joy Ford, PO Publishing, London, 2017.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
'Lest We Forget: Needlework as activism in the work of The Women's Domestic Needlework Group,' Orlando, Issue #2, edited by Philomena Epps, Orlando, London, 2017.
ONLINE ARTICLES
‘As I Cannot Write: Elizabeth Parker, A life in Red Thread,’ Stitch and Resist blog, Centre of Democracy, published online April 2020, https://stitchandresist.com/2020/04/06/199/
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
'This is fine: Teaching critical textile methods to students, in a house on fire,' Critical Fashion Studies Conference, University of Melbourne,
February 27 - 29, 2020.
'Reading Feminism, Through the Feminist Craft Object,' Lilith Collective Symposium, University of Melbourne, November 8-9, 2019.'Grab Your Pussy Hats: The subversions and limitations of gendered symbology in a feminist protest object.
'Grab Your Pussyhats: The subversions and limitations of gendered symbology in a feminist protest object,' Flinders University Spring Conference, Flinders University, November 7, 2019.
'Working With Crafty Hands: Crafting as Feminist Methodology,' Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970, Victorian College of The Arts, University of Melbourne, February 21-23, 2018.
'Casting Off My Womb: Gender and Online Violence in the Work of Casey Jenkins,' Articulations of Violence, Fourth Annual South Australian Gender,
Sex and Sexualities Conference, Bradley Forum, University of South Australia, July 13-14, 2017.
'Subversive Stitches: Needlework as Activism within Australian Feminist Art of the 1970's,' How the Personal Became Political, Australian National University, Gender Institute, Canberra, March 6-7, 2017.
'The Voice of the Stitch: Radical Crafting as Intersectional Feminist Activism,' The Third Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, University of South Australia, City West Campus, September 19-20, 2016.
'Holding Time, Survival and Place: Aboriginal Women’s Basketry and Cross-cultural Encounter,' Intersections in History, Australian Women's History Network Conference, Queen Victoria Women's Centre, Melbourne, March 31- April 1, 2016.
'Crafting Justice: The Radical Potential of Women's Crafts As a Vehicle for Challenging Social Injustice and Inequality,' The European Conference on Arts & Humanities, Brighton, UK, July 11-14, 2016.
'Writing Past the Wall: Women, Embroidery and Self-Writing in the Nineteenth Century,' Transgressions: 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, September 24-25, 2015.
'Diverse Feminisms: Contemporary Feminist Practices in Visual Art,' co-author with Lauren Mustillo, Transgressions: 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, September 24-25, 2015.
'The Ballad of Elizabeth Parker: The Production of Selfhood in Nineteenth Century Women's Embroidery,' The Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Imperial College London, UK, July 22-24, 2015.
'Creatively Displaying Art in a Children's Hospital,' co-author with Jill Newman, The Art of Good Health and Well-being Sixth Annual International Arts in Health Conference, Arts and Health Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, November 11- 13, 2014.
COMMITTEES
Lilith Journal Collective - Editorial committee member, 2018
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship - Doctoral research scholarship (three years)
2016 Student Nominated Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Art Architecture and Design, The University of South Australia
2015 The Helpmann Academy, Project Development Grant - funding for Diverse Feminisms exhibition
2014 Student Nominated Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Art Architecture and Design, The University of South Australia
2014 The Helpmann Academy Gallery Mentorship
2013 The University of South Australia Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement
2012-13 High Achiever Summer Vacation Research Scholarship
2012 Arts SA Independent Makers and Presenters Professional Development Grant
2011 Carclew Youth Arts Project and Development Grant - funding for Blood Sweat and Theory exhibition
2010, 2011, 2012 Chancellor's Letters of Commendation, The University of South Australia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
Australian Women's History Network
Textile Society of America
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)