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Ms Marilyn Metta
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- Role:
- Lecturer
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- Department:
- Department of Social Sciences
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- Location:
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- Telephone:
- +61 8 9266
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- Email:
- M.Metta@curtin.edu.au
Marilyn is a feminist academic with the Department of Social Sciences in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages. She has an interdisciplinary teaching background with 8 years experience teaching women's studies at Edith Cowan University and has taught across a wide range of disciplines including social sciences, gender studies, social work, cultural studies and counselling.
Marilyn is also a practising psychotherapist and counsellor at the West Leederville Counselling Centre, Perth. She has been working with individuals, families and children for the past 11 years.
Her private practice has been important in informing her research and teaching work and vice versa.
Research Interests
Marilyn's research areas are in lifewriting, feminist and gender studies, domestic violence, ethnic identities, Asian Australian studies, and psychotherapy.
She has researched extensively in the areas of family and domestic violence and feminist lifewriting.
Research Projects
Her upcoming research project: “An ethnographical investigation into the lives of asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia: Implications for Australia’s ‘solutions’ to refugees and asylum seekers” will begin in mid 2012.
Memberships
She has been involved in the Management Committee of Nardine Wimmin's Refuge since 2009; a member of The Women's Council of WA.
Awards
Her book, Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory: Lifewriting as Reflexive, Poststructuralist Feminist Research Practice (2010) received the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2011 Outstanding Book Award.
Publications
Books (Authored, Research)
- Metta, M. 2010. Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory: Lifewriting as Reflexive, Postructuralist Feminist Research Practice. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
