Professor Daniel X. Harris is a leading international scholar in creativity, diversity and social change.
They were most recently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, DECRA Fellow, RMIT Vice Chancellor's Primary Research Fellow, and are currently Research Professor in the School of Education, RMIT University, and Co-Director of Creative Agency research lab: www.creativeresearchhub.com.
Harris is editor of the book series Creativity, Education and the Arts (Palgrave), and has authored over 100 academic articles/book chapters and 22 books, as well as plays, films and spoken word performances.
Their research focuses on the intersection of creativity at both practice and policy levels; on cultural, sexual and gender diversities; and on performance and activism. They are committed to the power of collaborative creative practice and social justice research to inform social change. Harris is most widely known for their scholarship in creativity studies, affect theory and autoethnography.
Dan has over 25 years of experience in education (both secondary and tertiary), as well as 35 years of professional creative industries experience in playwriting, performance, multimedia production, dramaturgy and theatre company management, highlighting their history of interdisciplinarity and skills in translating between the academy and industry.
Supervisor projects
Fag-mags and manly men: an exploration of masculinity in gay erotic magazines
18 Feb 2025
Queer Friendship: Towards A Poetics of Difference?
2 Jan 2025
Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema
12 Dec 2024
Sweet Enough: Investigating Relationships Between Women and Sugar Through Creative Practice
19 Sep 2024
A designed based intervention study to develop a theoretical framework that will promote the interest and engagement in Physics by female students
5 Jun 2024
Understanding the impact of Speculative Design on Creative Thinking in Design Education
14 Apr 2024
Haunting the Postcolonial Matrix: Institutional Ghosts, Possessive Logics and Arts-Based Disruptions
5 Mar 2024
Reframing Creativity in the Classroom as a Participatory Process for Educational Equity
6 Oct 2022
How effective is film as a tool to generate conversation around suicide prevention and promote help-seeking behaviour in teens and young adults?
2 Aug 2021
Living Systems and cellular experience: What can somatic practices offer to the notions of listening within socially-engaged art practices ?
20 Jul 2021
Developing a Digital Solution Framework through a Digital Community of Practice System to Support Teachers' Implementation of STEAM
25 Jan 2021
Transilience: A Phenomenology of Leaping Across
30 Jun 2020
Finding an Archetypal Developmental Progression in Creative Thinking for The Classroom.
11 Jun 2020
Writing a Transcultural Teacher: Critical Autoethnographic Prose Poems on Teacher Subjectivity across Singapore, Shanghai and Melbourne
15 Apr 2020
Affective Dustly Becomings With Child-Earth Relations and Other Matters
13 Mar 2020
Sceneplay - "'A Screenwriting Project of Non-compliance'
4 Mar 2020
Performing Personal Trauma: Towards an Autoethnographic Theatre in the Age of #MeToo
13 Feb 2019
Crisis or Opportunity? An Exploration of Art Museum Educators' Practice in Australia and the United States
13 Dec 2018
Bodies, Belongings and Becomings: An Ethnography of Feminist and Queer Instagram Artists
20 Sep 2018
Artist-Activists in Protest Hong Kong: Trans/formation of Subjectivity
10 Sep 2018
Safe Space as Praxis: Creating (Affective) Conditions for World-Building, Care and Futures for Young People in the Creative Arts
1 Feb 2018
Feeling into Creativity: An Affect Theory of Empathy in Creative Collaboration
2 Jan 2018
Exploring Digital Bereavement: Young People, Digital Media, and Grief
16 Jun 2017
The White Maori: An exploration of identity and belonging
5 Jun 2017
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
Gender and Sexuality, Creativity, Creative Practice Research, Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion, Digital Ethnography, Video, Performance
Research interests
Cultural Studies, Creative Education, Gender and Sexuality, Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Inclusion and Equity in Education.
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