Associate Professor Kylie Cardell

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Humanities (237)
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

I teach undergraduate and Honours level classes in English and Creative Writing and I supervise doctoral and Masters students who are working in the field of Life Narrative. I primarily research in the field of auto/biography studies. I am the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and Editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiography of Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2015). I am the essays Editor for the Australian scholarly journal, Life Writing. In my work, I focus on marginal and evolving forms of life writing, such as essays, diaries, letters, and comics, as well as social media and digital or online modes of self-representation. An ongoing attention to the politics of genre characterizes my research in general. Current projects include a cultural history and literary analysis of the personal essay in the twenty-first century, particularly by Australian writers, and an interdisciplinary project exploring how publishing life writing about trauma impacts the wellbeing of authors.

Qualifications
BA (Hons) First Class, The University of Queensland
PhD, The University of Queensland
Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education), Flinders University.
Honours, awards and grants

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence (2014)

CHASS HDR Supervision Excellence (2020)

CHASS Excellence in Teaching (2022)

Key responsibilities
Topic coordinator
ENGL1102 The Art of Reading
ENGL3211 Telling True Stories
Topic lecturer
ENGL2131 Twenty-First Century Literature
ENGL2141 Life Writing
Supervisory interests
Contemporary life narrative (auto/biography) in various media
Creative nonfiction
Life writing/life narrative
New media
Popular biography Biography studies
Social impact of new media technologies
Higher degree by research student achievements
Laura Deane

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - JAN 2014

Pamela Graham

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAY 2017

Emma Maguire

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAY 2017

Ali Baker

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - JAN 2019

Katerina Bryant

Best HDR Student Publication - DEC 2020

Katerina Bryant

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAR 2023

Expert for media contact
Culture
Ethics
Literature - Australian
Literature - English
Television
Testimony
Writing
Diary Studies:
Life Narrative:
Life Writing and Culture:
New Media:
Writing and Therapy
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Media expertise
  • Culture
  • Ethics
  • Literature - Australian
  • Literature - English
  • Television
  • Testimony
  • Writing
Interests
  • Diary Studies:
  • Life Narrative:
  • Life Writing and Culture:
  • New Media:
  • Writing and Therapy
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