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Prof Niall Lucy

MA, University of Western Australia; PhD, University of Sydney
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    • Role:
    • Professor
    • Department:
    • School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts
    • Location:
    • Building 208 423
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7598

Niall Lucy is co-director (with Prof. Mark Balnaves) of the Centre for Culture & Technology. He is a former Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he taught for many years in the Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies programs. 

For a list of my major publications, see: http://curtin.academia.edu/NiallLucy

See below for a select list of recent publications.

Research Interests

Deconstruction; postmodernism; literary theory; cultural studies; media studies; popular culture; American literature; eighteenth-century literature and philosophy; Australian literature; Australian politics and media; public English.

I would be happy to consider PhD supervisions in any of these or related areas.

Research Projects

Currently writing The Ballad of Moondyne Joe (with John Kinsella) (Fremantle Press); A Dictionary of Postmodernism (Wiley-Blackwell); The Disorder of Things: Understanding Post-structuralism (Wiley-Blackwell); and editing (with Robert Briggs) Vectors of Derrida: Essays on Specters of Marx (Northwestern UP.

Memberships

Member of the consultancy board for Derrida Today; member of the editorial boards of Fibreculture Journal and Cultural Studies Review (and former member of the editorial boards of Continuum and Social Semiotics).

Member of the WA Curriculum Council Literature Reference Panel.

ARC International Expert Assessor.

ERA Peer Reviewer.

Awards

My book with Steve Mickler, The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press, was shortlisted for the Gleebooks Cultural Theory prize at the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Lucy, N. 2010. Pomo Oz: Fear and Loathing Downunder. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press.
  • Lucy, N, and Mickler, S. 2006. The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press.
  • Lucy, N. 2004. A Derrida Dictionary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Lucy, N. 2001. Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology. United Kingdom: Continuum.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Lucy, N. 2009. Introduction. In Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids, eds Niall Lucy & Chris Coughran, 13-17. Fremantle: Fremantle Press.
  • Lucy, N. 2009. Towards a Minor Music. In Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids, eds Niall Lucy & Chris Coughran, 181-194. Fremantle: Fremantle Press.
  • Lucy, N. 2007. The King and I: Elvis and the Post-Mortem or A Discontinuous Narrative in Several Media (On the Way to Hypertext). In Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L Ulmer Remix, eds Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, 12-21. Boulder, Colorado: ALT-X Press.
  • Lucy, N. 2007. Poetry and Deconstruction. In Language Systems: After Prague Structuralism, eds Louis Armand, 88-97. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia.
  • Lucy, N. 2006. The New Journalism: A Report on Knowledge. In Technicity, eds Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley, 281-316. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Lucy, N. 2009. Introduction: The Source of Plagiarism. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14(1): 3-20.
  • Lucy, N. 2009. Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14(2): 21-28.
  • Lucy, N, and Mickler, S. 2009. The Postmodern Left. Cultural Studies Review 15(1): 188-196.
  • Lucy, N. 2009. How to Write an Anti-Pomo Potboiler: The Exemplary Case of Gavin Kitching's The Trouble with Theory. English in Australia 44(1): 78-80.
  • Lucy, N. 2009. Art, Criticism & Philosophy: The Case of Van Gogh's Shoes. The International Journal of the Arts in Society 4(6): 183-192.
  • Lucy, N. 2008. Everybody Loves Raymond Williams: Critical Literacy, Cultural Studies and the New International. Changing English 15(3): 351-361.
  • Lucy, N. 2008. Running On. Derrida Today 1(2): 229-246.
  • Lucy, N, and Mickler, S. 2008. The War on English: An Answer to the Question, What is Postmodernism?. Transformations 16.

Minor Creative Works

  • Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. The Accumulation of Sediment (Catalogue Essay). Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.
  • Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. the art of writing (a history of writing). Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.
  • Lucy, N. 2009. Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids. Fremantle: Fremantle Press.
  • Lucy, N. 2007. Calenture. London: Domino Records.

Curating an Exhibition

  • Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. Ctrl-Z: Writing in the Age of New Media. Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.