Amelia Walker

Dr Amelia Walker

Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Amelia Walker (she/her) lives and writes on Kaurna Yerta. She has published five books of poetry, most recently, Alogopoiesis (Gazebo Books, 2023). Amelia is co-editor of Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy: How Games Play Us (Eds Walker, Grimmett & Black, Routledge, 2025) and author of Reading and Writing for Change: Theories and Tools for Confronting Power (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025). She teaches courses in creative writing and literary studies, and supervises higher degree research candidates in these areas.    

Photograph by Oz Hardwick, taken at 'Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World', University of Canberra 5-7 Dec 2022

Year Citation
2025 Cannell, C., McGinn, H., Walsh, T., Telford, S. P., Hordacre Kobayashi, L., Burg, A., . . . Walker, A. (2025). Queer(y)ing oceans surprises of grief in critically-creative co-research at the eco-queer nexus. Lambda Nordica: tidskrift foer homosexualitetsforskning, 30(2), 29-55.
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2025 Rozitis, S., DeBono, D., Brady Clark, A., Jarrett, E., & Walker, A. (2025). Towards post-human storytelling: pushing boundaries in decentring the human. TEXT, 29(Special 74), 1-17.
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2025 Walker, A., Lovell, B., Rozitis, S., Caldwell, A., Callus, V. Z., Collis, P., . . . Böhm, C. (2025). Ecopoetic encounters: unsettling anthropocentric assumptions via constraint-based anthologethnography. New Writing, 22(1), 1-18.
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2025 Booij, S., Cannell, C., Henry, S., Jarrett, E., Roche, G., Brady-Clark, A., . . . Walker, A. (2025). Re-thinking metaphors for research degree candidature and academic careers: beyond the ‘journey’, towards enhanced inclusivity. New Writing, 22(4), 465-483.
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2024 Eades, Q., Carruthers, A. J., Campbell, A., Walker, A., Jackson, A., Vickery, A., . . . Drummond, W. (2024). We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia. Text (Australia), 28(Special 73), 1-12.
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2024 Walker, A. (2024). A literary rhythmanalysis of queer life writing from COVID-19 home isolation. Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, online, 1-18.
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2024 Walker, A., & South, B. (2024). 'In the night air by the smoke': Amelia Walker in Conversation with Barrina South. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 September 2024.
2024 Walker, A., & Faulkner, S. (2024). 'Share what you've learned': Amelia Walker in Conversation with Samantha Faulkner. Cordite Poetry Review, 3 Feb 2024.
2024 Sandford, S., Cannell, C., Rozitis, S., Abela, A., DeBono, D., Hordacre Kobayashi, L., . . . Walker, A. (2024). Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis. New Writing, 21(1), 4-25.
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2024 Pitman, D., & Walker, A. (2024). Creativity, error and originality. Axon: Creative Explorations, 14(1), 1-17.
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2024 Walker, A., & Disney, D. (2024). Inter-cultural poetic encounters: camaraderie, solidarity, franchissement. New Writing, 21(4), 515-524.
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2024 Walker, A., Grimmett, H., & Black, A. A. L. (2024). Afterword. Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education how Games Play Us, 287-288.
2024 Walker, A., Grimmett, H., & Black, A. A. L. (2024). Preface. Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education how Games Play Us, xviii-xxxi.
2023 Walker, A., Wain, D., Black, A., & Spasovska, E. (2023). Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines. New Writing, 20(2), 167-177.
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2022 Walker, A. (2022). Making Kin in a Pandemocene: an account of/for queer survival. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(2), 240-244.
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2022 Walker, A. (2022). Evils of banality in barbell-based group fitness classes: a creative writing-based inquiry through autoethnography and discourse analysis Amelia Walker. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 26(Special Issue 67), 1-16.
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2022 Di Niro, C., & Walker, A. (2022). Seeing through the bars; speaking our way out: how creative work helps us confront (in)visible violences in tertiary education and beyond. Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, 6(3), 1-15.
2021 Langsford, S., & Walker, A. (2021). The value and limits of the healthy ecology metaphor: ecopoetry and connections between diversity, communication and survival in the face of environmental crises. Axon: Creative Explorations, 10(2), 1-13.
2021 Walker, A. (2021). Supporting lives: honouring oft-ignored healthcare professionals through poetry and art based on archival research. Social Alternatives, 40(3), 51-56.
2021 Walker, A. (2021). Beyond words / when 'Nothing' makes poetry happen: visual writing, negative capability, and the un/thinkable. Axon, 11(1), 1-21.
2021 Walker, A. (2021). Beyond words / when 'nothing' makes poetry happen: visual writing, negative capability, and the un/thinkable. Axon, 11(1), 1-21.
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2020 Sarangi, J., & Walker, A. (2020). Introduction - Text. Text, 24(60), 1-8.
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2020 Langsford, S., & Walker, A. (2020). THE VALUE AND LIMITS OF THE HEALTHY ECOLOGY METAPHOR. Axon, 10(2), 206-214.
2020 Niro, C. D., Muslera, P., & Walker, A. (2020). Fractography As Assemblage Connecting Para-Academic Pathways In The Ruined University. Axon, 10(2), 58-66.
2020 Di Niro, C., Muslera, P., & Walker, A. (2020). Fractography as assemblage: connecting para-academic pathways in the ruined university. Axon: Creative Explorations - Manifestos, Diatribes and Creative Interventions, 10(2), 1-11.
2020 Di Niro, C., Walker, A., Nilsson, A., Clarkson, R., Gou, Y., Spasovska, E., . . . Cannell, C. (2020). Becoming-game: an assemblage of perspectives on challenges for early career academics in neoliberal times. Text, 24(2, S59), 1-11.
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2020 Cannell, C., Spasovska, E., Gou, Y., Nilsson, A., Clarkson, R., Di Niro, C., . . . Walker, A. (2020). Doing collective biography differently by incorporating methods of narrative inquiry, poetic inquiry and performance studies into the analysis of writings-as-data. Text, 24(2, S59), 1-16.
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2020 Sarangi, J., & Walker, A. (2020). Introduction: Indian-Australian exchanges through collaborative poetic inquiry. Text, 24(2, S60), 1-7.
2020 Dominic, K. V., & Walker, A. (2020). Environmental crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a collaborative poetic inquiry. TEXT, 24(no. S60), 1-21.
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2020 McGinn, H., Cannell, C., Muslera, P., Blackwell, L., & Walker, A. (2020). Introducing Showpony: an inclusive space for cross-arts performance and connection. Text, 24(S59), 1-12.
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2020 Walker, A. (2020). A review of Chandan Bose's 'Perspectives on work, home, and identity from artisans in Telangana'. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 2(5), 553-561.
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2019 Walker, A., & Di Niro, C. (2019). Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research. Text, 23(S57), 1-17.
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2019 Walker, A. (2019). 'Besideness-writings': creatively critical, and critically creative strategies for inquiry. TEXT, 2(23), 1.
2019 Walker, A. (2019). What is franchissement? … and what's poetry got to do with it?. AXON: creative explorations, 9(1), 1-16.
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2018 Walker, A. (2018). Review of Kristin Lang, the weight of light. Text, 22(1), 1-4.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). Nervous. Double dialogues, (20), 1-11.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). Women like that: a poetic exploration into the complexities of intimate partner abuse. Journal of gender-based violence, 2(3), 537-546.
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2018 Walker, A. (2018). Review of faithfully, I wait by Jaydeep Sarangi.. Transnational Literature, 11(1), 1-4.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). Review of Dalit Voice: literature and revolt by Sharankumar Limbale and Jaydeep Sarangi. Transnational Literature, 11(1), 1-5.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). Re)Meeting Ms. Logos: problems of privilege in and through creative writing pedagogies. Text, (53), 1-15.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). A well-made house: book review of Kristin Lang's The Weight of Light. Text, 22(1).
2017 Wisdom, T., Kennedy, A., Eades, Q., & Walker, A. (2017). Towards bodily autonomy for everyone: an interdisciplinary conversation. Writing from below, 3(2), 1-11.
2017 Walker, A., Wisdom, T., Marks, S., Pearce, S., & Challans, B. (2017). Editorial: To speak and/as connect-beyond the silencing of violence, and the violence that is silence. Writing from below, 3(2), 1-8.
2016 Walker, A. (2016). Écriture Matiére matters: a queer review of Quinn Eades's all the beginnings. JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 16(1), 1-10.
2011 Walker, A. (2011). Brohmon (journey). Social alternatives, 30(2), 21-25.

Year Citation
2025 Walker, A., Grimmett, H., & Black, A. L. (2025). Weaving conceptual, philosophical, and methodological threads amongst tapestries of privilege, power, and pedagogy. In A. Walker, H. Grimmett, & A. L. Black (Eds.), Source details - Title: Ludic Inquiries Into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us (pp. 3-20). UK: Routledge.
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2025 Walker, A., Grimmett, H., & Black, A. A. L. (2025). Preface - Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education : how games play us. In A. Walker, H. Grimmett, & A. L. Black (Eds.), Source details - Title: Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education : how games play us (pp. xviii). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
2025 Walker, A., Grimmett, H., & Black, A. A. L. (2025). Afterword - Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education: how games play us. In A. Walker, H. Grimmett, & A. L. Black (Eds.), Source details - Title: Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education : how games play us (pp. 287-288). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;: Routledge.
2024 Walker, A., Rose, A. N., Brown, J., Henningham, M., Bruinstroop, J., Dau, D., . . . Eades, Q. (2024). Queer(y)ing board games as public pedagogy: 'Playing out of bounds' to activate LGBTQIA+ agency in academia and beyond. In A. Walker, H. Grimmett, & A. L. Black (Eds.), Source details - Title: Ludic Inquiries Into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us (pp. 93-105). US: Routledge.
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2022 Walker, A. (2022). Ecopoetry, pedagogical encounters, and holding absence present: ideas for classrooms. In S. L. Kleppe, & A. Sorby (Eds.), Source details - Title: Poetry and Sustainability in Education (pp. 185-208). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2022 Walker, A., & Di Niro, C. (2022). Resisting violence through the arts: theatre and poetry as spaces for speaking out and seeking change. In H. Bows, & B. Fileborn (Eds.), Source details - Title: Geographies of Gender-Based Violence (pp. 250-263). UK: Bristol University Press.
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2022 Walker, A. (2022). War and armed conflict. In J. M. Duquaine-Watson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Women's Health: Understanding Issues and Influences (Vol. 2, pp. 721-725). US: ABC-CLIO.
2021 Gou, Y., Di Niro, C., Spasovska, E., Walker, A., Cannell, C., Clarkson, R., . . . Levy, N. (2021). Writing, playing, transforming: a collaborative inquiry into neoliberalism's effects on academia, and the scope for changing the game. In A. L. Black, & R. Dwyer (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care (pp. 219-238). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2019 Walker, A. (2019). This order, not disorder: break down as break through. In A. M. McCulloch, & R. A. Goodrich (Eds.), Source details - Title: Why Do Things Break? (pp. 70-85). UK: Cambridge Scholars.
2018 Walker, A. (2018). Epilogue. In D. Hecq, & J. Novitz (Eds.), Source details - Title: Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation (pp. 255-272). UK: Gylphi.
2018 Di Niro, C., & Walker, A. (2018). You're doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries. In A. L. Black, & S. Garvis (Eds.), Source details - Title: Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir (pp. 33-44). London, UK: Routledge.
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2018 Walker, A. (2018). Autofictionalizing reflective writing pedagogies: risks and possibilities. In H. Dix (Ed.), Source details - Title: Autofiction in English: the story so far (pp. 197-215). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Di Niro, C., & Walker, A. (2018). You’re doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries. In Lived Experiences of Women in Academia Metaphors Manifestos and Memoir (pp. 32-44).
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2018 Walker, A. (2018). Autofictionalizing Reflective Writing Pedagogies: Risks and Possibilities. In Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (pp. 197-215). Springer International Publishing.
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Year Citation
2024 Authors: Henry S, Jarrett E, Roche G, Brady Clark A, Lovell B, Rice E, Nazari M, Hordacre Kobayashi L. Title: Beyond the journey: fresh metaphors for HDR/PGR candidature and academic careers. Extent: 67 pages.
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2024 Authors: Disney D, Jarrett E, Callus VZ, Roberts E, Rozitis S, Phillips G, Collis P, Tupper D. Title: Ecopoetic encounters: manipulating linguistic voice to unsettle anthropocentric assumptions. Extent: 64 pages.
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2023 Authors: Walker A, Day P. Title: Alogopoiesis. Extent: 340 pages.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: When I think of Australia: poem and commentary. Extent: N/A.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: Six Concrete Ecopoems. Extent: N/A.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: 5 poems: 'Ocean Dancing', 'Sky Dance', 'Lessons in Dancing', 'What Isn't?' & 'Sunset'. Extent: 4 pages.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: 'No Wave' poetry reading feature. Description: First Showing. Extent: N/A.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: Nganggunmanha: Papertalk Green's gifts to life writing, visual poetry and more. Extent: 8 pages.
2020 Authors: Linke J, Walker A. Title: That simple-yet-elusive something: appreciating haiku of seasons and camping through conversational reading and writing together. Extent: 5 pages.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: Taking Time. Extent: 2 pages.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: 'Un/becoming nurse: good and bad realities of representation as representation', a review of M McAllister & DL Brien's 'Paradoxes in nurses' Identity, culture and image: the shadow side of nursing'. Extent: 8 pages.
2020 Authors: Walker A. Title: Poppies in the post and other poems​ by Debashish Lahiri, Book review. Extent: 6 pages.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Broken and open, cycling and re-cycling: poetry of the Australian rural landscape now. Extent: Review of Three Poetry Books.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Erasure poem: Through the cracks_Version 404. Extent: 1 page.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Zwijgend. Extent: Bilingual Poem (Dutch and English).
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Through the cracks. Extent: 3 pages.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Shadows of Amsterdam. Extent: Poem.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Words like X-rays: Amelia Walker launches 'The White Line of Language' by Deb Stewart. Extent: 4 pages.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Dra(a)g. Extent: 1 page.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Interpolating Acne. Extent: 2 pages.
2019 Authors: Walker A. Title: Un/friending Dorian. Extent: 3 pages.
2018 Authors: Walker A. Title: Two versions, one eye-after René Magritte's 'Le faux miroir'. Extent: Poem.
2018 Authors: Walker A. Title: One day. Extent: 1 page.
2018 Authors: Walker A. Title: Wuhan. Extent: 1 page.
2016 Authors: Walker A. Title: Confession and confrontation in 'She Woke & Rose'. Extent: 5 pages.
2016 Authors: Walker A. Title: A nervous break. Description: First Showing. Extent: N/A.
2014 Authors: Jones J. Title: Blue. Extent: p.20.
2013 Authors: Walker AA. Title: I, Migrant.. Extent: 17 pages.
2013 Authors: Walker AA. Title: I'm putting my money on Janet. Extent: N/A.

Courses I teach

  • COMM 2058 Short Form Creative Writing (2025)
  • LANG 2005 The Power of Story (2025)
  • LANG 3043 Creative Writing Theory and Practice (2025)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor Pixels, pandemics and publishing: Australian literary magazines 2017-2022  - Master Part Time Ms Kaya Elizabeth Blum
2021 Co-Supervisor Investigating and redesigning portrayals of childless women in biographical drama: the case of Ellen Tremaye Edward De Lacy Evans. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Belinda Frances Lees

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