Doctor Milissa Deitz
Academic Program Advisor, Dean's Scholars,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Senior Lecturer,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Biography
Milissa Deitz is the Academic Program Advisor for the Creative Industries degree and lectures in communication, media studies and creative writing in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. She is a former journalist and novelist with a PhD from the University of Sydney. Her latest publication is M. Deitz, and L. Sheridan Burns (2022) Foster Youth in the Mediasphere: Lived Experience and Digital Lives in the Australian Out-of-home Care System Palgrave McMillan, New York.
Her research and scholarly interests include trauma studies; grief, identity and family; voice and the marginalised within digital storytelling (The Right To Know: 100 Years of the Australian Red Cross International Tracing Service, Immigration Museum, Melbourne 2015); and young people, wellbeing and technology (www.invisiblecity.org.au; and Digital Lives in OOHC - a Young & Resilient Research Centre Report 2022)
She is a recipient of the 2013 Vice Chancellor’s Award for her work with academic literacy for first year students, and the 2015 Vice Chancellor’s Award for the online blended learning Communication program.
Milissa’s book Watch This Space: The Future of Australian Journalism was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Her novel Bloodlust and non-fiction title My Life As A Side Effect about depression are both published by Random House. Milissa has been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and was the co-host of book show Shelf Life on TVS between 2011 and 2015.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Deitz.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- MA Macquarie University
- BA University of Newcastle (NSW)
Professional Memberships
- Young & Resilient Research Centre (2018 - 2023)
Awards
- UWS Learning and Teaching Award 2013-10-15
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Committees
- School Research Committee - HACA
Contact
| Email: | M.Deitz@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 4676 |
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| Location: | ED.G.31 Parramatta |
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Publications
Books
- Deitz, M. and Sheridan Burns, L. (2022), 'Foster Youth in the Mediasphere: Lived Experience and Digital Lives in the Australian Out-of-Home Care System', : Palgrave Macmillan 9783031179525.
- Deitz, M. (2010), 'Watch This Space: The Future of Australian Journalism', : Cambridge University Press 9780521144285.
Chapters in Books
- Deitz, M. (2016), 'Family reunion : the potential of digital storytelling and the tracing files of the Australian Red Cross International Tracing Service', Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice, Routledge 9781138916302.
- Deitz, M. (2003), 'Great Pretenders: The Rise of Pranksterism', Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, Cambridge University Press 0521534275.
Journal Articles
- Deitz, M., Notley, T., Cantanzaro, M., Third, A. and Sandbach, K. (2018), 'Emotion mapping : using participatory media to support young people's participation in urban design', Emotion, Space and Society, vol 28 , pp 9 - 17.
- Deitz, M. (2014), 'Cut and paste : Australia's original culture jammers, BUGA UP', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 8, no 1 .
Exhibitions
- 2015, 'The Right to Know: 100 Years of the Australian Red Cross International Tracing Service'
Other Publications
- 2022, 'Out-of-Home-Care (OOHC) Digital Lives: A Collaborative Investigation into Digital Opportunities for the Personal Narratives of Young People in Care', Report
- 2018, 'invisiblecity: Emotion Mapping App', Published Work
- 2017, 'All The Little Boxes', Published Work
- 2017, 'Vanishing Point', Published Work
- 2016, 'InWesternSydney', Published Work
- 2015, 'Invisible City Project Website', Published Work
- 2013, 'Shelf Life', Recorded Work
- 2004, 'My Life as A Side Effect', Published Work
Previous Projects
| Title: | Young and Resilient Living Lab Foundation Project |
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| Western Researchers: | Amanda Third, Philippa Collin, Liam Magee, Tanya Notley, Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Katrina Sandbach, Michelle Catanzaro, Peter Bansel, Nida Denson and Milissa Deitz |
| Years: | 2016-12-05 - 2018-04-12 |
| ID: | P00023561 |
| Title: | Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Engaging Creativity Through Technologies P2:P2 |
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| Western Researchers: | Amanda Third, Kerry Robinson, Nida Denson, Peter Bansel, Tanya Notley, Katrina Sandbach, Michelle Catanzaro and Milissa Deitz |
| Years: | 2013-06-25 - 2016-12-25 |
| ID: | P00021345 |
Supervision
Doctor Deitz is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Death's Human Shroud: An Interdisciplinary Journey Through the Realm of Death Personification |
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| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Beside My Self/Abide with Me: Panic as Unbecoming |
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| Thesis Title: | Framing Terrorism in Indonesia: A Case Study of Islamic Magazines in Indonesia |
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| Thesis Title: | The Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Fiction since Whitlam |
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| Thesis Title: | Creative Approaches to Crisis Culture: A Novel and Exegesis |
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| Thesis Title: | Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Fiction since Whitlam and a novel, The Verge |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts; Other Creative Arts; Gender Specific Studies |
Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | A Brief History of Starvation |
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| Thesis Title: | Beside Our Selves: Panic as Unbecoming |
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| Thesis Title: | Reading Books in Buenos Aires |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication; Literature |
| Thesis Title: | The Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Fiction since Whitlam |
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| Thesis Title: | Becoming on YouTube: Exploring the Automedial Identities and Narratives of Australian Mummy Vlogging |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Fiction since Whitlam and a novel, The Verge |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts; Gender Specific Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Unbroken: Personal Storytelling as a Method of Illuminating Parenting Experiences of Disability, Illness and Diversity |
| Field of Research: | Journalism; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Artful Matters of Deviation and Stealth. |
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| Thesis Title: | Death's Human Shroud: An Interdisciplinary Journey Through the Realm of Death Personification |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Dubiously Wholesome: Performing Gender |
| Field of Research: | Computer Science; Gender Specific Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Sons of Shame: Deconstructing White, Male Subjectivity in Greater Western Sydney |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Reading Books in Buenos Aires |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication; Literature; Language And Literature |
| Thesis Title: | From Rant to Revolution: The Possibilities and Limitations of Motherhood Memoir |
| Field of Research: | Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | The Construction of Anti-Western Islamist Discourse in Indonesian Magazines |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies; Philosophy And Religious Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Unbroken: Personal storytelling as a method of illuminating parenting experiences of disability, illness and diversity |
| Field of Research: | Journalism; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Becoming on YouTube: Exploring the Automedial Identities and Narratives of Australian Mummy Vlogging |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies; Other Society And Culture |