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Dr Laurie Johnson
Laurie Johnson's principal research areas cross over between cultural studies and psychoanalytic theory. The project on which he is currently devoting the greatest energy is an inquiry into the nature of cultural agency and an attempt to develop sound methodologies for tracing the role of individual everyday practices in collective cultural identification, based on an eclectic approach to theories of body, capital, memory, place, praxis, and time, among others.
His other ongoing research interests include investigations into cultural studies as social practice. Theories and knowledges are not created in an ivory tower, but by people whose life and work is shaped in social contexts, and so he is interested in reading theoretical texts as an index of how the theorist responds to the condition of being in the world.
Previous published research includes articles on social transformations in science fiction film and literature, psychoanalytic interventions into debates about mind/body, the phenomenology of death, and cultural agency. He was awarded his doctorate at the University of Queensland in 2000 for The Wolf Man's Burden, which was published as a full monograph by Cornell University Press (2001).He is presently a lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, having previously taught at Queensland University of Technology, the University of Central Queensland, and the University of Queensland. He currently is one of the editors of Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts, and has previously edited two issues of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture.
