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Joanne Faulkner

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Senior lecturer, Macquarie University

Joanne Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, at Macquarie, Australia. She is the author of Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia (Routledge, 2023), Young and Free: [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory, and History in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016), and The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children (Cambridge, 2011), among other titles. Her current research investigates the cultural and political significance of childhood in settler-colonial societies such as Australia.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2018–2022
    Research fellow, Macquarie University
  • 2017–2018
    Senior lecturer, UNSW
  • 2016–2017
    Lecturer, UNSW
  • 2008–2016
    Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW
  • 2007–2008
    Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Alberta, Canada

Education

  • 2006 
    La Trobe University, Ph.D, Philosophy

Publications

  • 2023
    Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia, Routledge
  • 2016
    Young and Free: [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory, and History in Australia, Rowman & Littlefield
  • 2011
    The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children, Cambridge University Press
  • 2010
    Dead Letters to Nietzsche: Or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy, Ohio University Press
  • 2008
    (With Matthew Sharpe) Understanding Psychoanalysis, Acumen

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    ARC Future Fellowship
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2012
    ARC DECRA Fellowship
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2008
    ARC Discovery Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2007
    Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Role:
    Fellow
    Funding Source:
    The Killam Trusts

Professional Memberships

  • The Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy
  • The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Research Areas

  • Philosophy (2203)
  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)
  • Media Studies (200104)