Brigid Magner

Originally from Aotearoa, Brigid is a teacher, writer and researcher based in Naarm. She enjoys learning from students and collaborating with peers.

Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies in the School of Media & Communication. Her research is primarily focussed on the relationships between literature and place. She is the author of Locating Australian Literary Memory (Anthem 2019) and chief investigator of an ARC Special Research Initiative Project, ‘Reading in the Mallee: The Literary Past and Future of an Australian Region’ (with Emily Potter and Torika Bolatagici).

Brigid coordinates the Teachers@Work seminar series and is a member of the Reducing Climate Anxiety community of practice and CCARN (Climate change action and research network).

She teaches into three undergraduate units: Literary Environments, Reading Space & Place and Contemporary Australian Writing and supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students.

Co-editor of the Journal of Australian Studies

Secretary of ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature)

Executive member of InASA (International Australian Studies Association)

Brigid's research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the intersections between literary production and physical environments. Her areas of expertise include the history of the book, literature and place-making, contemporary Australian literature & publishing and reading cultures.

Literary geographies, Place-making, Literary heritage, Australian authorship, Reading cultures, Literary materialities

• History of the Book
• Place-making
• Literary Geographies
• Authorship
• Publishing
• Australian Literature
• Eco-Literature
• Climate Fiction
• Reading cultures

• Antonia Strakosch (2017) ‘Across the Gap: Writing third-generation Holocaust literature’
• Yvette Harvey (2018) ‘Twitch Gothic: The Female Protagonist in Australian Short Fiction’
• Janice Simpson (2019) ‘The Museum of the Lost & Found’
• Annalea Beattie (2020) ‘Writing in the Dark’
• Victoria Kenworthy (2020) ‘Soundproof: Reading Fictional Music from Proust to Mann’
• Catherine Williams (2020) ‘Intimate sensing in Climate Research’
• Laura Fulton (2020) ‘Finding Home: A Field Journal of Creative Writing Experimentation for Exploring the Adoptive Identity’
• Katherine Day (2021) ‘Book Contracts and the Post Negotiation Space. Lifting the Lid on Publishings Black Box of Aspirations, Laws and Money’