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Dr Colleen McGloin

BA Hons, PhD. University of Wollongong

Contact Details:

Building 30 Room G07F
Phone (02) 4221 4860
Fax (02) 4221 4244
Email cmcgloin@uow.edu.au

Brief Introduction:

I come from a multi disciplinary background and hold a Bachelor of Arts in English with First Class Honours and a doctorate in Communications and Cultural Studies from the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications. In 2006, I received an OCTAL teaching award for my contribution to teaching and learning. My PhD research focused on surfing and beach culture in Australia as this relates to race and masculinity in the production of national identity. This work provides a counter argument to dominant discourses of nation and identity through a range of texts that examine Indigenous surfers’ relationship to surfing and beach culture.

Research Interests:

My research interests include critical and cultural theory, Aboriginal histories, issues of race, nation and identity, the study of literary and film texts, a critical pedagogy in Higher Education. My research informs my writing and teaching and contributes to subject development in the Aboriginal Studies programme.

Publications:

‘Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture and Country’, International Journal of Humanities, Vol.4, Issue 1.2006.

‘Recontextualising the Award: Developing a Critical Pedagogy in Indigenous Studies’ International Journal of the Humanities Volume 6, Number 4.

Books:

McGloin, C . Surfing Nation(s) Surfing Country(s), (2008) Saarbrucken, VDM Verlag

BOOK CHAPTERS:

McGloin, C ‘ Australian Indigenous Short Film: ‘Introducing Wayne Blair’s Djarn Djarns and Black Talk’ in Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, (forthcoming. November 2009)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

McGloin, C. (2006), ‘Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture and Country’, International Journal of Humanities, Vol.4, Issue 1. pp.93-99.

McGloin, C. ( 2008) ‘Recontextualising the Award: Developing a Critical Pedagogy in Indigenous Studies’ International Journal of Humanities, Vol. 6, Issue 4. pp.81-88.

McGloin, C. (2009) ‘Nation, Country and Indigenous Surfing’, in Kurrungabaa pp.87-91.

McGloin, C. (2009) ‘Considering the work of Martin Nakata’s “Cultural Interface”: a Reflection on Theory and Practice by a non-Indigenous Academic,’ Aust Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol 38, Supplement, 2009.

McGloin, C. & Lumby, B. (2009) ‘Re-Presenting Urban Aboriginal Identities: Self-Representation in “Children of the Sun”’ Aust Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol 38.

McGloin, C. Marshall, A & Adams, M. (2009) ‘Leading The Way: Indigenous knowledge and Collaboration at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre’ JUTLP (under review)

McGloin , C & J Stirling, J. (2009) Two left feet: dancing in Academe to the rhythms of neoliberal discourse. (under review)

Forthcoming:

‘Australian Indigenous Short Film: Introducing Wayne Blair’s The Djarns Djarns and Black Talk’.

Teaching:

I have tutored for a number of years in Communications and Cultural Studies at UoW. I currently teach in the Aboriginal Studies programme at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre. I coordinate and teach ABST200, Aboriginal Identities: Histories and Contested Knowledges, and ABST300, Indigenous Theories of Decolonisation. My research interests in pedagogy and higher education inform my philosophy of teaching in Aboriginal studies.

Grants:

2006, UoW Teaching and Learning Fund Grant for WIC academic team $32,000

Research Students:

McLean, Hannah. (Hons). ‘Indigenous Music’, Co Supervised with Professor Kathleen Clapham.

Bronwyn Lumby, (PhD). ‘The Politics of Aboriginal Identity’, Co Supervised with Professor Martin Nakata.

Kelly Pollitt, (Hons). ‘Conceptual Frameworks in Drug and Alcohol Services in relation to Indigenous Clients’, Co Supervised with Professor Kathleen Clapham.

Michelle Hartcher, (Hons). ‘Finding a Voice in Boxing’. Completed 2007.

Last reviewed: 17 November, 2009