Timothy Laurie
Timothy Laurie is an Associate Professor and Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. He teaches subjects on global cinema and streaming television at UTS, and is also editor for peer-reviewed journal Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Q1 in Cultural Studies and Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts).
RESEARCH
Timothy is currently working on three broad research projects:
1. Timothy is engaged in research on Australian boys as part of his role as a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council grant "Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem" (2021-2025). The project explores histories, representations, and experiences of Australian boyhood, and offers critical insights of use to developing new strategies for positive mental and sexual health for Australian boys. As part of this research, Timothy has produced a study of masculinities and ethical complicity in Australian crime cinema; an examination of boys as witnesses to Domestic and Family Violence in Australian and US cinemas; an exploration of empathy as a concept in the study of boys and young men; and a critical review of contemporary approaches in the study of boys and boyhoods within the emerging framework of affirmative feminist boys studies.
2. Timothy has an ongoing research collaboration around feminist philosophy and queer theory with Associate Professor Hannah Stark (University of Tasmania). They have co-authored the book The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (Palgrave, 2021), which Jack Halberstam describes as "a fantastic tour of contemporary ideas about relationships covering the good, the bad and the lovely". More recently, Timothy and Hannah have written about feminist and queer theoretical approaches to the concept of "attachment", and have explored representations of coercive control in queer literature.
3. Timothy has an ongoing research project around doctoral education and supervision practices with Dr. Liam Grealy (University of Sydney/Menzies - School of Health Research). They have published research on the key questions facing higher degree supervisors in the humanities and social sciences; on self-trust and tacit knowledge in doctoral training; and on the use of educational metrics and measurement in the context of Higher Degree Research.
TEACHING
In the School of Communication at UTS, Timothy has coordinated, lectured, and tutored on Global Cinema, Streaming Television, Digital Media Industries, and Communicating Difference. Timothy also has prior experience teaching about popular music and social identities, city cultures and cultural geographies, consumer cultures, modernism and modernity, youth cultures, and studies in genre.
Timothy has also served as a First and Further Year Transition Experience coordinator (2017-2019) and is committed to pedagogies that help students navigate the transition into university and that allow for diverse ways of learning and responding to teaching materials.
EDITORIAL WORK
Timothy also engages in extensive editorial work in cultural studies. In additional to his ongoing editorial duties for Continuum, he has also co-edited Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era (Routledge, 2021) with Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths. This collection explores the limitations and the consequences of free speech debates in contemporary political arenas, and explores possibilities for combating racism within and against dominant liberal political frameworks.
Timothy has also co-edited Special Issues for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, on masculinities, aesthetics, and knowledge, and for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, on critical approaches to the 'continental' in continental philosophy.
ORGANISATIONAL WORK
In the cultural studies research community, Timothy is also the regional representative for Australia and New Zealand on the Board of the Association for Cultural Studies, and a director for Hunar Symposia, which focuses on art practices that respond to State violence, forced migration, and the ongoing effects of colonisation. Finally, Timothy has co-organised association conferences for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
RESEARCH
Timothy is currently working on three broad research projects:
1. Timothy is engaged in research on Australian boys as part of his role as a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council grant "Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem" (2021-2025). The project explores histories, representations, and experiences of Australian boyhood, and offers critical insights of use to developing new strategies for positive mental and sexual health for Australian boys. As part of this research, Timothy has produced a study of masculinities and ethical complicity in Australian crime cinema; an examination of boys as witnesses to Domestic and Family Violence in Australian and US cinemas; an exploration of empathy as a concept in the study of boys and young men; and a critical review of contemporary approaches in the study of boys and boyhoods within the emerging framework of affirmative feminist boys studies.
2. Timothy has an ongoing research collaboration around feminist philosophy and queer theory with Associate Professor Hannah Stark (University of Tasmania). They have co-authored the book The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (Palgrave, 2021), which Jack Halberstam describes as "a fantastic tour of contemporary ideas about relationships covering the good, the bad and the lovely". More recently, Timothy and Hannah have written about feminist and queer theoretical approaches to the concept of "attachment", and have explored representations of coercive control in queer literature.
3. Timothy has an ongoing research project around doctoral education and supervision practices with Dr. Liam Grealy (University of Sydney/Menzies - School of Health Research). They have published research on the key questions facing higher degree supervisors in the humanities and social sciences; on self-trust and tacit knowledge in doctoral training; and on the use of educational metrics and measurement in the context of Higher Degree Research.
TEACHING
In the School of Communication at UTS, Timothy has coordinated, lectured, and tutored on Global Cinema, Streaming Television, Digital Media Industries, and Communicating Difference. Timothy also has prior experience teaching about popular music and social identities, city cultures and cultural geographies, consumer cultures, modernism and modernity, youth cultures, and studies in genre.
Timothy has also served as a First and Further Year Transition Experience coordinator (2017-2019) and is committed to pedagogies that help students navigate the transition into university and that allow for diverse ways of learning and responding to teaching materials.
EDITORIAL WORK
Timothy also engages in extensive editorial work in cultural studies. In additional to his ongoing editorial duties for Continuum, he has also co-edited Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era (Routledge, 2021) with Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths. This collection explores the limitations and the consequences of free speech debates in contemporary political arenas, and explores possibilities for combating racism within and against dominant liberal political frameworks.
Timothy has also co-edited Special Issues for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, on masculinities, aesthetics, and knowledge, and for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, on critical approaches to the 'continental' in continental philosophy.
ORGANISATIONAL WORK
In the cultural studies research community, Timothy is also the regional representative for Australia and New Zealand on the Board of the Association for Cultural Studies, and a director for Hunar Symposia, which focuses on art practices that respond to State violence, forced migration, and the ongoing effects of colonisation. Finally, Timothy has co-organised association conferences for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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supervision meetings across multiple Australian universities, this article examines the entanglements of scholarly discourse, interpersonal conviviality, and curiosity within supervision relationships. To understand this, we adopt a ‘post-critical’ approach to doctoral training and borrow the concept of ‘tacit knowledge’ to consider the role of trust, conviviality, and informal ‘know-how’ in the development of formalised expertise. Analysis of exchanges within supervision meetings encourages the consideration of care as a relational structure linked to practices of curiosity and the sharing of tacit knowledge. We argue that although institutional pressures may continue to reshape doctoral candidatures in the neoliberal university, supervision meetings offer important sites for developing doctoral candidates’ intellectual self-trust, including through the expression of curiosity by their supervisors.
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The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependency in the context of struggles for marriage equality and the increasing recognition of post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It commits to these post-nuclear arrangements, while pushing beyond the false choice between a politics of collective action and the celebration of deeply personal and incommunicable pleasures. In exploring the vicissitudes of love across contemporary philosophy, politics, film, new media, and literature, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures develops an original post-sentimental concept of love as a way to explain emergent intimacies and affiliations beyond the binary couple.
transitioning body has been taken up not simply as the moniker for groups with specific
political demands, but as a "fuzzy" sign invested with broad collective hopes for worldhistorical
transformations around the categories of sex and gender. As an umbrella term,
transgender has been used to group people together "across fine gradations of trans
experience and identity;' in ways that "build the experienced reality of a shared community,
with overlapping and intersectional social needs and political goals" (Williams 2014: 234).
In stressing departure rather than arrival, Julian Carter evokes a notion of transition
which is non-teleological, in which "transition" instead is understood as one of the
ways in which people "move across socially defined boundaries away from an unchosen
gender category" (Carter 2014: 235). Noting the "popular cultural preoccupation" with
the terminology of "trans;' Pearce et al. follow Nael Bhanji in exploring the valences
that "transition" has acquired: transgression, transmutation, transmorgification, and so
on (see Bhanji 2012; Pearce et al. 2018: 2). Just as the diasporic subject became, within
certain Anglo-American fields of scholarly inquiry, a widely legible metonym for wider
phenomena of cultural, economic, and political globalization (see Cho 2007), so too
have trans rights become metonymic for tectonic shifts in the role of both the State and
more diffuse social institutions (such as media industries) in recognizing and regulating
gender-based social identities.1 To see transgender celebrity Laverne Cox on the cover
of Cosmopolitan in South Africa (February, 2018) is to be reassured that gatekeepers
of gender norms are themselves transitioning from one worldview to another-from
binary to multiplicity, identity to fluidity, conformity to self-expression, and so on. The
metonymic signs of trans acceptance seem to arrive from a utopian near-future, one that
is slowly trickling its way into a present restless for change.