Research Interests:
Eurovision, cultural diplomacy, Australian and global migration, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, cultural studies, popular culture, Australian studies, gender studies.
Most Recent Research Outcomes:
“High, low, and participatory: Eurovision and cultural studies,” in Eurovision as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia, eds Adam Dubin, Antonio Obregón, and Dean Vuletic, Routledge. 2022.
“A Commonwealth Princess? The instrumentalisation of Meghan Markle’s race to construct her royal persona,” Persona Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/1459.
"Richard White’s Inventing Australia: revisiting the invention forty years later." History Australia (2021), pp.1-12.