Dr Amelia Walker

Lecturer UniSA Creative

email Amelia.Walker@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

creative writing
creative research
writing as research
poetry
literary studies

Amelia Walker is the author of four poetry collections and three poetry teaching resource books in Macmillan's All You Need to Teach series. She completed her PhD in 2016 and currently teaches courses in creative writing and literary studies. She also supervises HDR candidates undertaking creative writing research. Amelia is chief investigator on 'Invisible Walls', an Australia-Korea Foundation funded project focused on building intercultural connections between Korea and Australia.

Photograph by Oz Hardwick, taken at 'Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World', University of Canberra 5-7 Dec 2022

UniSA Creative

UniSA Creative explores the creative, cultural and artistic complexities of our world, producing industry-ready professionals and conducting inspired cross-disciplinary research.

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About me

In the media

Date	Title
30/04/2018	Waterfall Work, Review of 'Dreamday' in TEXT Journal, by Dominique Hecq, http://www.textjournal.com.au/april18/hecq2_rev.htm
11/03/2018	“Art in response to Art”: Rob Walker launches ‘Dreamday’ by Amelia Walker at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Article in Rocheford Street Review, https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2018/03/11/art-in-response-to-art-rob-walker-launches-dreamday-by-amelia-walker-at-the-2018-adelaide-fringe-festival/
11/03/2018	“We must dream, and honour our dreams, in order to live actualised lives”- Amelia Walker: Dominique Hecq launches ‘Dreamday’, Article in Rocheford Street Review, https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2018/03/11/we-must-dream-and-honour-our-dreams-in-order-to-live-actualised-lives-amelia-walker-dominique-hecq-launches-dreamday/
14/02/2018	'New Book is Art Inspired', Messenger Eastern Courier Article, https://www.facebook.com/131835960859327/photos/ms.c.eJwtx8kJADAMA8GOgtdCPvpvLBAyv8FGyZotdRzek3FuB~;8sUwr1BeKdCXI~-.bps.a.155132185196371.1073741828.131835960859327/155132218529701/?type=3&theater
31/12/2017	Book Review: Dreamday, reviewed by Jaydeep Sarangi, in Setu Journal, http://www.setumag.com/2017/12/Dreamday-by-Amelia-Walker.html
20/06/2017	'New Verse in a Poet's Life', Messenger Eastern Courier Article, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156272788619972&set=p.10156272788619972&type=3&theater
06/07/2016	'Power of the Poetic Language' article about poet-in-residence project at St Andrews School, Walkerville, article by James Hetherington, published in City North Messenger, http://messenger.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2022	Walker, A, Wain, D, Black, A & Spasovska, E 2022, 'Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines', New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, online, pp. 1-11. 3
2020	Cannell, C, Spasovska, E, Gou, Y, Nilsson, A, Clarkson, R, Di Niro, C, Levy, N & Walker, A 2020, 'Doing collective biography differently by incorporating methods of narrative inquiry, poetic inquiry and performance studies into the analysis of writings-as-data', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no.2, S59, pp. 1-16. Open access 2
2020	Dominic, K & Walker, A 2020, 'Environmental crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a collaborative poetic inquiry', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. S60, pp. 1-21. Open access
2019	Walker, A & Di Niro, C 2019, 'Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 23, no. S57, pp. 1-17. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'What is franchissement? … and what's poetry got to do with it?', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-16. Open access

Chapters

Year	Output
2022	Walker, A & Di Niro, C 2022, 'Resisting violence through the arts: theatre and poetry as spaces for speaking out and seeking change', in H Bows & B Fileborn (eds), Geographies of Gender-Based Violence, Bristol University Press, UK, ch. 15, pp. 250-263.
2022	Walker, A 2022, 'Ecopoetry, pedagogical encounters, and holding absence present: ideas for classrooms', in SL Kleppe & A Sorby (eds), Poetry and Sustainability in Education, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 9, pp. 185-208.
2022	Walker, A 2022, 'War and armed conflict', in JM Duquaine-Watson (ed.), Women's Health: Understanding Issues and Influences, ABC-CLIO, US, vol. 2, pp. 721-725.
2021	Gou, Y, Di Niro, C, Spasovska, E, Walker, A, Cannell, C, Clarkson, R, Nilsson, A & Levy, N 2021, 'Writing, playing, transforming: a collaborative inquiry into neoliberalism's effects on academia, and the scope for changing the game', in AL Black & R Dwyer (eds.), Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 13, pp. 219-238.
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'This order, not disorder: break down as break through', in AM McCulloch & RA Goodrich (eds), Why Do Things Break?, Cambridge Scholars, UK, ch. 6, pp. 70-85.
2018	Di Niro, C & Walker, A 2018, 'You're doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries', in AL Black & S Garvis (eds), Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir, Routledge, London, UK, ch. 4, pp. 32-44. 1 29
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Autofictionalizing reflective writing pedagogies: risks and possibilities', in H Dix (ed.), Autofiction in English: the story so far, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 11, pp. 197-215. 1 7
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Epilogue', in D Hecq & J Novitz (eds), Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation, Gylphi, UK, pp. 255-272.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Di Niro, C & Walker, A 2022, 'Seeing through the bars; speaking our way out: how creative work helps us confront (in)visible violences in tertiary education and beyond', Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, vol. 6, no. 3. Open access
2022	Walker, A 2022, 'Evils of banality in barbell-based group fitness classes: a creative writing-based inquiry through autoethnography and discourse analysis Amelia Walker', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 26, Special Issue 67, pp. 1-16. Open access
2022	Walker, A 2022, 'Making Kin in a Pandemocene: an account of/for queer survival', Journal of Autoethnography, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 240-244. Open access
2022	Walker, A, Wain, D, Black, A & Spasovska, E 2022, 'Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines', New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, online, pp. 1-11. 3
2021	Langsford, S & Walker, A 2021, 'The value and limits of the healthy ecology metaphor: ecopoetry and connections between diversity, communication and survival in the face of environmental crises', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access
2021	Walker, A 2021, 'Beyond words / when 'Nothing' makes poetry happen: visual writing, negative capability, and the un/thinkable', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-21. Open access
2021	Walker, A 2021, 'Supporting lives: honouring oft-ignored healthcare professionals through poetry and art based on archival research', Social Alternatives, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 51-56. Open access 1
2020	Cannell, C, Spasovska, E, Gou, Y, Nilsson, A, Clarkson, R, Di Niro, C, Levy, N & Walker, A 2020, 'Doing collective biography differently by incorporating methods of narrative inquiry, poetic inquiry and performance studies into the analysis of writings-as-data', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no.2, S59, pp. 1-16. Open access 2
2020	Di Niro, C, Muslera, P & Walker, A 2020, 'Fractography as assemblage: connecting para-academic pathways in the ruined university', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-11. Open access
2020	Di Niro, C, Walker, A, Nilsson, A, Clarkson, R, Gou, Y, Spasovska, E, Levy, N & Cannell, C 2020, 'Becoming-game: an assemblage of perspectives on challenges for early career academics in neoliberal times', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24,no.2, S59, pp. 1-11. Open access
2020	Dominic, K & Walker, A 2020, 'Environmental crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a collaborative poetic inquiry', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. S60, pp. 1-21. Open access
2020	McGinn, H, Cannell, C, Muslera, P, Blackwell, L & Walker, A 2020, 'Introducing Showpony: an inclusive space for cross-arts performance and connection', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. S59, pp. 1-12. Open access
2020	Sarangi, J & Walker, A 2020, 'Introduction', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. 60, pp. 1-8. Open access
2020	Sarangi, J & Walker, A 2020, 'Introduction: Indian-Australian exchanges through collaborative poetic inquiry', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. 2, S60, pp. 1-7. Open access
2019	Walker, A & Di Niro, C 2019, 'Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 23, no. S57, pp. 1-17. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'What is franchissement? … and what's poetry got to do with it?', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-16. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Nervous', Double Dialogues, no. 20, pp. 1-11. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Re)Meeting Ms. Logos: problems of privilege in and through creative writing pedagogies', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, SI series, no. 53, pp. 1-15. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Women like that: a poetic exploration into the complexities of intimate partner abuse', Journal of Gender-based Violence, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 537-546. Open access
2017	Wisdom, T, Kennedy, A, Eades, Q & Walker, A 2017, 'Towards bodily autonomy for everyone: an interdisciplinary conversation', Writing From Below, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-11. Open access

Conferences

Year	Output
2016	Walker, A 2016, 'Why I don't write (much): per-forming failure in and as creative writing research', Authorised theft: The 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, University of Canberra, pp. 1-10. Open access
2015	Walker, A 2015, '''I' has to give: rethinking Bloom's apophrades and/as ghostly Derridean gifts'', in E Bacon, D Hecq & A Walker (eds), Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering: The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-13. Open access
2015	Walker, A 2015, 'Re-collecting the self as an o/Other: creative writing research matters', in E Bacon, D Hecq & A Walker (eds), The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-12. Open access
2012	Walker, A 2012, ''Good to think [as]': uses and methodological advantages of character in research', in C Atherton & R Dredge (eds), 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2012, Australian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-11. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2020	Linke, J & Walker, A 2020, That simple-yet-elusive something: appreciating haiku of seasons and camping through conversational reading and writing together, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, 'Un/becoming nurse: good and bad realities of representation as representation', a review of M McAllister & DL Brien's 'Paradoxes in nurses' Identity, culture and image: the shadow side of nursing', Text, Australian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, 5 poems: 'Ocean Dancing', 'Sky Dance', 'Lessons in Dancing', 'What Isn't?' & 'Sunset', Dancing the Light, Cyberwit.
2020	Walker, A 2020, Book review: poppies in the post and other poems by Debashish Lahiri., Transnational Literature, Flinders University. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Nganggunmanha: Papertalk Green's gifts to life writing, visual poetry and more, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Six Concrete Ecopoems, Unusual Work, Collective Effort Press. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Taking Time, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of writing Programs. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Dra(a)g, Not very quiet. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Erasure poem: Through the cracks_Version 404, Abridged, The Chancer Corporation. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Interpolating Acne, Not very quiet. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Through the cracks, Meniscus, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, One day, Teesta review: A journal of poetry, Teesta Review. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, Wuhan, Teesta review: A journal of poetry, Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry. Open access
2016	Walker, A 2016, Confession and confrontation in 'She Woke & Rose', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2013	Walker, AA 2013, I'm putting my money on Janet, 18th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, The Creative Manoeuvres, 2013-11-25, Australian Association of Writing Programs.
2013	Walker, AA 2013, I, Migrant, Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, University of Technology, Sydney.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Kolkata University	INDIA
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Nan Tien Institute	AUSTRALIA
Newman College Kerala	INDIA
Private Individual	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Calcutta	INDIA
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of the Sunshine Coast	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
'Coming Out' with your family: portraying LGBTQIA+ ethnic identities in young adult literature	Current
Investigating and redesigning portrayals of childless women in biographical drama: the case of Ellen Tremaye Edward De Lacy Evans.	Current
Pixels, pandemics and publishing: Australian literary magazines 2017-2022	Current
Using a fictional micronation to explore issues in a future Australia	Current
Who are the Anthropos? The Philosophical Novel as a Response to Challenges of the Anthropocene	Current

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