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Dr Kerrie Davies

Dr Kerrie Davies

Senior Lecturer

D.ARTS (Literary Journalism)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

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Program Director, Masters of Journalism and Communication and PR & Advertising 2021-2024
Convenor and creator of immersive media subjects (UG and PG) and first year journalism incorporating audio and blogging.

Research: new forms of life writing and creative non fiction, and their intersection with new media such as social and virtual reality.听

Creative and Scholarly Research Practice:
I am the author of the speculative biography , published by Allen and Unwin (2025) and the experimental hybrid auto / biography听A Wife's Heart (2017), reviewed nationally as 'groundbreaking' .My research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as听 Life Writing,听Literary Journalism Studies, the Australian Journalism Review, and more widely in听the Conversation, as well as forthcoming听book chapters on creative writing.
My research has attracted national media impact, and听I have appeared听at the Sydney Writers' Festival; the Brisbane Writers Festival and the National Folk Festival.
I currently supervise thesis projects in literary journalism / creative non fiction and life writing (biography, memoir)..
My teaching and research is underpinned by over a decade's professional practice in national media publications including the Weekend Australian and Vogue Australia.听

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E-mail
k.davies@unsw.edu.au
Location
311C Robert Webster
  • Books | 2025
    Davies K, 2025, Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career, Allen & Unwin
    Books | 2017
    Davies K, 2017, A Wife's Heart, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Davies K; McDonald W, 2022, 'Catherine Hay Thomson: female vagabond or stunt reporter', in Reynolds B; Bak J (ed.), Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism., Routledge, pp. 289 - 300,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Davies KM; McDonald W, 2022, 'Female "vagabond" or stunt reporter? The undercover literary journalism of australian colonial journalist catherine hay thomson', in Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism, pp. 289 - 299,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Davies KM, 2023, 'Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues', Celebrity Studies, 14, pp. 280 - 292,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Davies KM, 2022, 'Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis', Life Writing, 20,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Davies K, 2020, 'Miles Franklin Undercover: Domestic Service and Gonzo Advocacy in Literary Journalism', Literary Journalism Studies, 12, pp. 62 - 83,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Davies K, 2019, 'Hearing Maud', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 79, pp. 210 - 213,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Davies K, 2019, 'The fl芒neur as a motif of timelessness in auto / biography', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, 23,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Davies K, 2018, ''An eye in the eye of the hurricane': Fire and fury, immersion and ethics in political literary journalism', Ethical Space: the international journal of communication ethics, 15, pp. 86 - 92,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Davies K, 2018, 'Hearing Bertha Lawson', Meanjin, 77, pp. 181 - 187
    Journal articles | 2017
    Davies K, 2017, 'Book Review Stan Grant Talking to My Country', Ethical Space: the international journal of communication ethics, 14, pp. 47 - 47
    Journal articles | 2017
    Davies K, 2017, 'Divorce - Have Attitudes Really Changed?', Law Society of NSW Journal, 36, pp. 41 - 44
    Journal articles | 2016
    Davies K, 2016, 'Revisiting Bertha Lawson, Henry Lawson's Wife', Davies Revisiting Bertha Lawson Writing the Ghost Train: Refereed conference papers of the 20th Annual AAWP Conference, 2015, pp. 1 - 11,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Davies K; MCDONALD W, 2015, 'Creating History: Literary Journalism and Ned Kelly's Last Stand', Australian Journalism Review, 37, pp. 33 - 49
    Journal articles | 2015
    McDonald W; Davies K, 2015, 'Creating history: Literary journalism and Ned Kelly鈥檚 last stand', Australian Journalism Review, 37, pp. 33 - 50
  • Creative Written Works | 2023
    Davies K, 2023, "The problem is that my success seems to get in his way": The fraught terrain of literary marriages, The Conversation,
    Other | 2021
    Davies K; Nelson C, 2021, 'What makes a good hoax?' A political point, for starters.', The Conversation, Melbourne / online,
    Other | 2021
    Davies K, 2021, Foiled Expectations [Review] Great Expectations: Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia, Inside Story,
    Other | 2021
    Davies K, 2021, [Review] Is David Williamson a reformed 'Bad Art Friend'?, The Conversation, Melbourne,
    Other | 2020
    Davies K; McDonald W, 2020, Friday Essay: how a 'gonzo' press gang forged a Ned Kelly legend, theconversation.com.au,
    Other | 2020
    Davies K; McDonald W, 2020, The Conversation Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the undercover journalist who went inside asylums, The Conversation, online,
    Other | 2020
    Davies K, 2020, Review: Kate Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves fills the silence of the archives, The Conversation, Melbourne,
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Davies K, 2017, Behind the Myth, Review, The Australian,
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Davies K, 2017, Separation and Single Parenting: The Tribulations of Henry Lawson's wife, The Conversation,
    Other | 2015
    McDonald W (ed.), 2015, Colonial Australian Literary Journalism, Australia,

Dean's Award for Creativity, 2024.

Visiting Fellow, State Library of NSW, 2024.

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Books

Davies, K. 2025. Miles Franklin Undercover. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Davies, K. 2017. A Wife's Heart.听Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

Book Chapters

Davies, K.M (2026). 'Write what you know: removing acculturation stress and teaching creative non-fiction' In L. McCormack听 Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts: Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide Abingdon: Routledge.

Davies, K.M (2026).Urban Literary Journalism as a Model for Mobility Justice Studies of Temporary Migration鈥. In R. Maguire and W. Dow, Urban Literary Journalism. Abingdon: Routledge.

Davies, K & McDonald, M. (2023).听听. J.Bak & B.Reynolds (Eds). The. Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism. Routledge.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles听

Davies, K.. 2022.听听, Life Writing. online first.

Davies, K. 2021听. Celebrity Studies. online first.

Davies, K. 2019.听. Text. online first.

Other publications and book reviews

Davies, K (2025, July 18 ) 鈥楤onnets, speech bubbles and 鈥榗heeky easter eggs鈥: a graphic biography of Jane Austen is subtly sophisticated鈥. The Conversation.

Davies, K (2025, March 14 听Miles Franklin鈥檚 other brilliant career: as an undercover servant. The Conversation.

Davies, K (2024, September 30) Artists, social climbers and mermaids: 10 Australian women who followed their dreams to the US in the early 20th听century. The Conversation.

Davies, K. 2023, 23 June).听. The Conversation.

Davies, K. (2022, April 14).'"Weaponised Irony": after fictionalising Elizabeth Macarthur's life, Kate Grenville edits her letters.' The Conversation.

Davies K. (2021, February 12). Book Review: 鈥楩oiled Expectations鈥. Inside Story.Davies, K. (2021, October 26). 鈥榃hat makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters鈥. The Conversation.

Davies, K (2021, October 20). 鈥楬ome Truths Review: Is David Williamson a reformed 鈥淏ad Art Friend鈥? 鈥楾he Conversation.

Davies, K. 2020.听 听. 17 January.听听The Conversation.听

Davies, K. (2019). Book Review: 鈥楬earing Maud鈥. Southerly. 79 (1), 210-213.

Davies, K. (2017). Book Review: 鈥楾alking to My Country鈥. Ethical Space. 14 (4),47

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Miles Franklin Undercover:

nvitations Industry Engagement - Netflix.

Netflix / Jungle Entertainment- invited me to the set of the 'reimagined' My Brilliant Career, South Australian Film Commission Studios. Informal consultation - but I was invited -听 meeting with Exec Producer, script writers and lead actor Phillipa Northeast, who is playing Sybylla.听 Released 2026.听听

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International release of book -November Uk / United States.

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EVENTS (festivals, libraries, bookshops)

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  • Balmain Library, Author Talk, 12 March 2025.

  • Words on Wagstaff, festival event: 15 March, 2025

  • In Conversation with Prof.Brigitta Olubas, Gleebooks,听 27 March 2025.

  • Manly Writers Festival, Manly 28 March, 2025.

  • North Sydney Writers @Stanton (Library), 3 April, 2025.

  • Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ignite Studios, 5 April, 2025.

  • Miles Franklin's Forgotten Years, East Maitland Library, 2 May 2025.

  • Sydney Writers Festival, Vanishing Histories with Yves Rees and Susan Wyndham, @State Library of NSW (Festival venue), 21 May, 2025 (黑料网大事记 Sponsor)

  • Sydney Writers Festival, Curiosity Lecture, 22 May 2025, Carriageworks (黑料网大事记 Sponsor)

  • Goulburn Library, Author Talk, 25 May 2025

  • Writers @ the Woolshed, Moss Vale,听 12 July 2025

  • ANU Centre of Biography, ANU Harry Hartog, Canberra, 14 July, 2025.Ballina Library Seniors Circle and Ballina Probus听 (a favour to my mum!)

  • SAM Literary Provocations Talk - August 27 .

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Media Interviews and Podcasts

  • ABC Radio National Conversations,听

  • 黑料网大事记 ADA Novel Thinking,听 in conversation with A/Prof Fiona Morrison

  • Biographers in Conversation听

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Media Interviews

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  • ABC Riverina听 24 March

  • ABC Melbourne, 31 March ABC Melbourne 3.45pm

  • 2SER , Breakfasts 11 April , 8.30am

  • Daily Telegraph,听听(Mercedes Maguire), published 15 March 2025 {print only but pic here)听 听

My Research Supervision

PhD Creative Practice (Life writing)
Cathy Perkins:听 Three Scarlet Women: The Lives of Betty Roland, Catherine Duncan and Oriel Gray.
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My Teaching

I currently teach听 Multiplatform Journalism, News Fundamentals and Masters Online Publication Practice.

I'm available to supervise across literary journalism / creative non fiction,听 life writing such as memoir and biography, and other forms of creative writing.