research

I am currently a PhD student in Transforming Cultures at the University of Technology, Sydney.

My doctoral project is tentatively titled ‘What is an archive? Zines as temporal and spatial disruptions to the archive’.

Papers & presentations

Feeling at home in ‘little library spaces’ | Research Applications in Information and Library Studies 2011

Archiving the underground: zine anthologies | BCLA 'Archive' Conference

Archiving materiality; everyday zine practices and the archive | The Archive and Everyday Life Conference 2010

Open Fields Sydney | University of Technology, Sydney & Serial Space

Collection Management seminar | State Library of NSW

Zine collections: An Australian perspective | Research Applications in Information and Library Studies 2009

Challenging the archive from the inside and out | AERI 2009

Publications

When zines meet archives: above- and below-ground collections | Artlink, vol 30 no 2, 2010

Previous projects

The Ideal Menstruating Girl: Normalisation and the Menstrual Taboo | 1999

The Octapod Zine Collection: Developing a Preservation & Access Strategy | 2008