Jordan Williams
Biography
Jordan Williams has a PhD in Communication awarded for her creative thesis combining cultural theory and new media poetry to do with space, place and embodiment. She teaches in the writing and communication programs at the University of Canberra and chairs supervisory panels for a number of postgraduate research students in the creative writing discipline area.
She has been involved in research grants to do with postgraduate research in creative writing, and media representations of mental illness. Her current research is centered on embodiment and writing, and the relationship between reading literature and writing literature. As part of this she pursues an ongoing interest in the future directions of reading and writing including new forms such as new media writing as well as the growing popularity of older forms such as the graphic novel, and the nexus between fiction and non-fiction.
Together with Professor Jenn Webb she is authoring a book on embodiment to be published by Sage.
Writing/rights: creative practice and political action (with Jenn Webb)
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april08/williams_webb.htm
The Stigmata or the Tattoo
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0401/06-williams.php
Representations of public risk: illegal drugs in the Australian press.
Media International Australia, no. 108, 2003 (with Warwick Blood and Kerry McCallum)