Associate Professor Daniel Marshall

Daniel (he/they) is an Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia.  Previously, Daniel was an Associate Professor in the Writing, Literature & Culture group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University where he led the introduction of Deakin’s interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies programme.  Prior to that, Daniel worked as a Research Fellow at The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society (La Trobe University) and was an invited Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies (City University of New York) and at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research (London South Bank University).  

In broad terms, Daniel’s research focuses on relationships between gender, sexuality, youth, culture, and social worlds.  Drawing on feminist, queer and cultural studies theoretical traditions and social research methods, Daniel’s work investigates LGBTIQ+ young people and their experiences of in/justice, violence, creativity, and resistance; contemporary and historical representations, theories and lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ young people; young people’s uses of archival materials and spaces in contemporary practices of storytelling, reparation and belonging; and historical and contemporary expressions of the cultural politics of social change, gender and sexuality. Daniel’s work has been supported by a range of funding agencies, including the Australian Research Council, VicHealth, the Harold Mitchell Foundation, and the Ian Potter Foundation.  Daniel has also worked in social policy settings and with a range of LGBTIQ+ community organisations, including serving as President of the Australian Queer Archives.  Previously Daniel also served as the Victorian Regional Representative of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and as a co-convenor of the Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies SIG of the Australian Association for Research in Education.  Born in Berrin/Mt Gambier, Daniel studied at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, before completing his PhD at the University of Melbourne.  

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

• Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Deakin University

• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) The University of Adelaide

• Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide