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 (she/her) lives and writes on Kaurna Yerta. She has published five books of poetry, most recently, Alogopoiesis (Gazebo Books, 2023). Amelia is co-editor of Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy: How Games Play Us (Eds Walker, Grimmett & Black, Routledge, 2025) and author of Reading and Writing for Change: Theories and Tools for Confronting Power (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025). She teaches courses in creative writing and literary studies, and supervises higher degree research candidates in these areas.

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. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2023	Walker, A, Wain, D, Black, A & Spasovska, E 2023, '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, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 167-177. Open access 1 1 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 7
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 4
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 1

Books

Year	Output
2024	Walker, A, Grimmett, H & Black, AL 2024, Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education: how games play us, Routledge, US.

Chapters

Year	Output
2025	Walker, A, Grimmett, H & Black, AL 2025, 'Weaving conceptual, philosophical, and methodological threads amongst tapestries of privilege, power, and pedagogy', in A Walker, H Grimmett & AL Black (eds), Ludic Inquiries Into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us, Routledge, UK, ch. 1.
2024	Walker, A, Rose, AN, Brown, J, Henningham, M, Bruinstroop, J, Dau, D, Farquhar, M & Eades, Q 2024, 'Queer(y)ing board games as public pedagogy: 'Playing out of bounds' to activate LGBTQIA+ agency in academia and beyond', in A Walker, H Grimmett & AL Black (eds), Ludic Inquiries Into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us, Routledge, US, ch. 8, pp. 93-105.
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. Open access
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. Open access
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. Open access 6
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. 4 21
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
2024	Pitman, D & Walker, A 2024, 'Creativity, error and originality', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-17. Open access
2024	Sandford, S, Cannell, C, Rozitis, S, Abela, A, DeBono, D, Hordacre Kobayashi, L, Telford, S-P, McGinn, H, Lees, B, Burg, A, Jarrett, E, Roberts, L, Tabios, E, Dunkin, A & Walker, A 2024, 'Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis', New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 4-25. Open access 3 1 6
2024	Walker, A & Disney, D 2024, 'Inter-cultural poetic encounters: camaraderie, solidarity, franchissement', New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 515-524.
2024	Walker, A & Faulkner, S 2024, ''Share what you've learned': Amelia Walker in Conversation with Samantha Faulkner', Cordite Poetry Review. Open access
2024	Walker, A & South, B 2024, ''In the night air by the smoke': Amelia Walker in Conversation with Barrina South', Cordite Poetry Review. Open access
2024	Walker, A 2024, 'A literary rhythmanalysis of queer life writing from COVID-19 home isolation', Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, online, pp. 1-18. Open access
2023	Walker, A, Wain, D, Black, A & Spasovska, E 2023, '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, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 167-177. Open access 1 1 3
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 1
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 1
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 7
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 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
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 4
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 1
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 1
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
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Guildhall School of Music and Drama	UNITED KINGDOM
Hong Kong Metropolitan University	HONG KONG
Keele University	UNITED KINGDOM
Kolkata University	INDIA
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Nan Tien Institute	AUSTRALIA
Newman College Kerala	INDIA
Open University in Wales	UNITED KINGDOM
Private Individual	UNITED KINGDOM
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Royal Literary Fund	UNITED KINGDOM
Sogang University	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH)
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Calcutta	INDIA
University of Canberra	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of the Sunshine Coast	AUSTRALIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
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
Who is the Anthropos? Writing an existentialist novel in the Anthropocene	Current
Practicing allyship through writing: challenges of intersectionality in young adult fiction featuring LGBTQIA+ stories	Completed
Using a fictional micronation to explore issues in a future Australia	Completed

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Dr Amelia Walker

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