Anna Hickey-Moody is an Australian academic specialising in

cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

. She is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

of intersectional humanities at

Maynooth University Maynooth University (MU) (), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Maynooth University was formerly known as National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ). It was Ireland ...

, Ireland. She is also affiliated with media and communication at

RMIT University The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

. Hickey-Moody holds an

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

Future Fellowship (2017–2021).

Education

Hickey-Moody completed a

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

(

Social Anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

Theatre Studies Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also enco ...

) at the

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. Its main campus in the Adelaide city centre includes many Sa ...

. She completed her

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

at the

University of South Australia The University of South Australia is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1991, it is the successor of the former South Australian Institute of Technology. Its main campuses along North Terrace are ...

on the work of

Restless Dance Theatre Restless Dance Theatre, formerly Restless Dance Company, is a dance theatre company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Founded in 1991, Restless works with people with and without disability. History The Restless Dance Compan ...

Career

Hickey-Moody worked at the University of South Australia as a

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

from 2000 to 2005. From 2004 to 2007, Hickey-Moody was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

where she worked on the Youth Arts Beyond Risk project. The book based on this work is called Youth, Arts and Education and was published with

Routledge Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanit ...

in 2013. Hickey Moody later went on to lecture at Monash University from 2007 to 2009, during which time she co-founded and led the Space, Place and Body Research Group. In 2009, Hickey-Moody moved to the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

where she held a number of teaching and supervision positions, including working as the Departmental Undergraduate Coordinator until 2013. During this time she also published Unimaginable Bodies (Sense/Brill) and a number of edited collections. Between 2013 and 2016, Hickey-Moody worked at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by ...

, where she was the director of the Centre for Arts and Learning and the head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. While at Goldsmiths College, Hickey-Moody also co-founded the Disability Research Centre and held a number of teaching positions. In 2016, Hickey-Moody was made

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...

in the Department of

Gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

at the University of Sydney. In 2017, Hickey-Moody was made

of media and communications at

, where she continues to work (as of September 2020). At RMIT Hickey-Moody is a core member of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, leading the Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice (CRiMP) lab. Hickey-Moody was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2017. She currently acts as project lead for the Future Fellowship project: “

Interfaith Childhoods Interfaith (also called "interreligion") may refer to various ways of relating between beliefs, creeds, ideologies, faiths, or religions: * Interfaith conflict (disambiguation) * Interfaith dialogue, also known as interfaith cooperation * Interfait ...

”. Hickey-Moody is a visiting research fellow with the Education and Social Research Institute at the

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Education ...

and a visiting professor in

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Expertise and research areas

Hickey-Moody is considered a leading expert in art-based research practices,

Deleuzian Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

theory and

affect theory Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manife ...

. Hickey-Moody uses a philosophically informed

approach to her research, working in both qualitative and

quantitative research Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data. It is formed from a deductive approach where emphasis is placed on the testing of theory, shaped by empiricist and positivist philoso ...

methods. She is known for her work with

young people Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood (Maturity (psychological), maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as bei ...

, people with

disabilities Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physica ...

, migrant communities, and marginalised communities.

Selected publications

* Hickey-Moody, Anna. (2020). Faith. Philosophy Today. 63. 10.5840/philtoday202019302. * Hickey-Moody, A. (2019). New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter In: Qualitative Inquiry, 1 - 9 * Hickey-Moody, Anna. (2019). Deleuze and Masculinity Palgrave, New York. * Harwood, V. Hickey-Moody, A.,et al. (2018). The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom * Hickey-Moody, A. (2017). Arts practice as method, urban spaces and intra-active faiths In: International Journal of Inclusive Education, 21, 1083 - 1096 * Hickey-Moody, A. (2017). Integrated Dance as a Public Pedagogy of the Body. In: Social Alternatives, 36, 5 - 13 * Hickey-Moody, Anna. Youth, Arts and Education : Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect. First edition. ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print. * Hickey-Moody, Anna. Unimaginable Bodies : Intellectual Disability, Performance and Becomings. Rotterdam, NL: Sense, 2009. Print. * Kenway, Jane, Kraack, Anna, Hickey-Moody, Anna, and Kenway, Jane, Author. Masculinity beyond the Metropolis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.

References

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