Dr Nigel Starck

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow UniSA Creative

Magill Campus (C2-06)
tel +61 8 830 24466

email Nigel.Starck@unisa.edu.au

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Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Professional Vocation *Specialist lecturer in creative writing, journalism, organisational communication; *Former journalist, broadcaster, television/documentary producer; *Experience as communication media practitioner in all states of Australia, S/E Asia, Europe.

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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Research

Research focus

Journalism and Professional Writing
Communication
Communication and Media Studies
History
Media/Publishing Practice

Highlights

International journalism practice,The art of the obituary,Journalism history,Military history,The travel memoirs of Anthony Trollope,The art of biography

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2014	Starck, N 2014, The first celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australasian odyssey, Lansdown Media, UK.
2012	Starck, N 2012, Legacies of war, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australia.
2011	Starck, N 2011, Proud Australian Boy: A biography of Russell Braddon, Australian Scholarly publishing, Melbourne.

Chapters

Year	Output
2012	Starck, N 2012, 'The book about Braddon: sexual release as a prisoner and artistic fulfilment as an author', in N Starck (ed.), Legacies of war, 1, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, pp. 47-57.
2009	Starck, N 2009, 'Putting away childish things: the realities of conflict', in P Skrebels (ed.), Remnants of war: retracing the sites of conflict and reconciliation, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, ch. 3, pp. 52-66.
2008	Starck, N 2008, 'Obituaries', in Bob Franklin, Pulling Newspapers Apart, Routledge, Abingdon, New York, pp. 91-101.
2008	Starck, N 2008, 'Remembrance in columns: the newspaper obituary as an instrument of military record', in Claire Woods & Judith Timoney, Writings of War, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, pp. 179-190.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2011	Starck, N 2011, 'A licence to resurrect : the newspaper obituary as an agent of biography', Biography Footnotes, vol. 8, pp. 14-22. Open access
2009	Starck, N 2009, 'Sex after death: The obituary as an erratic record of proclivity', Mortality, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 338-354. Open access 1
2009	Starck, N 2009, 'The mind of Russell Braddon', The National Library Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 12-15.
2008	Starck, N 2008, 'Anthony Trollope's Trave;s and Travails in 1871 Australia', National Library of Australia News, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 19-21.
2008	Starck, N 2008, 'Death Can Make A Difference', Journalism Studies, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 911-924. 7 9
2008	Starck, N 2008, 'Obituaries for Sale: wellspring of cash and unreliable testimony', Journalism Practice, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 444-452. 1 3

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Creative writing, particularly features and reviews for mainstream media; biography. ,Research, with an emphasis on journalism history.

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
They fell somewhere between myth and memory: how war literature influences Australia's collective remembrance and historical understanding of World War One	Current
Violets, white feathers and the sisterhood of peace: South Australian women’s activism in World War 1	Current
Talking about family photographs and the Australian Baby Boomers' legacy. Opening the shoeboxes: snapshots, memories and narratives	Completed
Voices in the vines/peeling the layers: exploring hybrid ethnography	Completed
Wishing upon a star: the virtues and vicissitudes of celebrity endorsement	Completed

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