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I am Lecturer in American Studies in the School of Communication and Arts, specializing in literature and modernist studies. I am author of The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960 (Edinburgh UP 2023), and co-editor of the modernist studies journal Affirmations: of the Modern (Open Humanities Press), which is the organ journal of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network. My research has appeared in PMLA (Cambridge UP), American Literature (Duke UP), Modernism/Modernity (Johns Hopkins UP), The Mississippi Quarterly (Johns Hopkins UP), and Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge). I've also contributed to various published and forthcoming collections, including The Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing (Oxford UP, forthcoming),The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies (Edinburgh UP 2024); The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (Routledge 2022); and recent collections on American authors including E. L. Doctorow and Carson McCullers. I am also co-editor of Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism: The Women of 1922 (Palgrave 2025), a collection that revisits perennial debates over modernism's geographies and temporalities by retracing the politics and poetics of women's literature across a range of global contexts in 1922: the annus mirabilis of modernism.

I have taught at the University of Adelaide, the University of New South Wales, Flinders University, and the Australian Catholic University. I received my doctorate in English Literature from UNSW, after completing my undergraduate degree there with First Class Honours; I also have a Masters of Teaching, specialising in teaching English.

I am currently writing two monographs: the first, Writing the Collar-Line, traces the literary history of the racial imaginary, white-collar labor, and the Black typewriter, a literary figure that was brought into representation to unsettle the processes whereby racist and heterosexist criteria regarding who could perform different classes of labor were reified anew not only through the bureaucratization of white-collar office work, c. 1886–1940, but also via cultural depictions of those processes. The second considers how U.S. writers and composers wrote about Black classical musical activism in response to the instrumentalization of classical music as a monolithic racial signifier of whiteness in 19th/20thC U.S. cultural and political discourse.

My other current research projects examine the radical history of typewriters; investigate how technologies of musical reproduction (scores, radio, phonography) guided modernist literary innovation; and trace the poetics of silent resistance that arose in African American women’s protest poetry in the early 1920s. I am generally interested in the history, theory, and politics of modern literature, technology, and sound.

My previous research attended to studies of prose fiction, critical regionalism, and the politics of U.S. literary geography. My monograph, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, is the first scholarly work to probe the relationship between the aesthetics of regional fragmentation and the genre of the novel of development. As the first book to extensively scope the development of the U.S. Bildungsroman, this book challenges and reorients current understandings of where the Bildungsroman fits into nineteenth and twentieth century American literary history and the New Modernist Studies, by engaging in analyses of novels in regional clusters, including the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, and the West, featuring extensive commentary on the novels of African American and Native American writers, such as Wallace Thurman, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and John Joseph Mathews; as well as other American authors, including Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, James Farrell, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather. It historicizes how the American Bildungsroman developed during the period associated with modernism (c. 1900–1960), in ways that challenge the perception of American modernist innovation as antiregionalist, and regionalism as an antimodernist enterprise.

I welcome Honours and HDR proposals on any topics adjacent to modern literature, especially those that intersect with the fields of American and African American studies; modernist studies; musico-literary and sound studies; or critical race studies, postcolonialism, and cultural studies of the Black Atlantic and Global South.

Bellson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in minerals engineering from the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Ghana and a PhD in minerals and materials engineering from the then Ian Wark Research Institute, now Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. His PhD research topic was “Fluidised-bed flotation of coarse sulphide minerals: factors influencing value recovery” within the AMIRA P260F series.

Bellson has worked as a lecturer at the University of Mines and Technology, Ghana, and as a process engineer at SIMEC Mining (previously Arrium Mining). He joined The University of Queensland's JKMRC with the desire to use his experience in applied research, focusing on novel advances in mineral processing

Micheal holds the position of Senior Lecturer (Business Information Systems) in the UQ Business School, University of Queensland (UQ), and acts in the role of Deputy Director Teaching & Learning (Commerce Suite of Programs) for the UQ Business School.

Micheal is an experienced IS professional and accountant (FCPA of CPA Australia) with fifteen years’ experience in the area of IS consulting. This experience and career includes the evaluation of IS projects, IS audit and IT management and governance. Micheal’s published research is in the areas of the use of intelligent decision aids, Information Systems (IS) audit, and Information Technology (IT) governance. Prior to receiving his PhD, Micheal chaired the IT & Management Centre of Excellence for CPA Australia. Professionally, Micheal is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of the Australian Computer Society, ISACA, the Association for Information Systems, and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Micheal has more than 15 years industry experience as a Director in an IS consulting practice with public, private, and community sector organizations as clients. He has significant experience in facilitating development programs, and currently teaches into the UQ Master of Business Administration program, the Master of Business, the Master of Business Analytics, and the Master of Commerce program at UQ. Micheal’s professional experience as an accountant, as a Director in the area of IS Consulting, and IS research expertise provides a strong foundation for delivering engaging educational programs and business-relevant research at the UQ Business School.

Oluremi (Remi) is an Associate Professor of Management in the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland, Australia. Remi has had extensive teaching experience in tertiary institutions across three nations. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Remi's principal research interests include conflict management, emotions, leadership, diversity, team work and employee physical work environment and territoriality. The results of her cutting-edge research have been presented in several international (e.g. US Academy of Management - AOM, European Group for Organizational Studies-EGOS & International Association of Conflict Management - IACM conference) and national conferences (e.g. Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management-ANZAM). Remi is an award-winning researcher and has published in reputable journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB), Organization Studies (OS), Applied Psychology: An International Review (APIR), International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM), Journal of Business Research (JBR) and Journal of Business Ethics (JBE). She has also written many book chapters and co-edited the Handbook of Conflict Management Research (Edward Edgar) and Organizational Behaviour and the Physical Environment of Work (Routledge). Remi is the immediate past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Management and Organization and she is currently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Conflict Management, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Journal and Strategic Change . Remi is the Convenor and Leader of the UQ's Next Generation of Workspaces Research Network (NGWN-https://business.uq.edu.au/research/next-generation-workspaces) and the Chair of the UQ Cultural Inclusion Council (CIC-https://staff.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/human-resources/diversity-and-inclusion/cultural-and-linguistic-diversity/uq-cultural-inclusion-council). She is a recipient (with others) of a highly coveted Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant awarded to study the impact of employee physical work environment (e.g. office configurations) on employees' territoriality, wellbeing and productivity. She has appeared on radio (national/international),TV and newspapers talking about workspace issues. Remi is a member of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI), US Academy of Management, International Association of Conflict Management and ANZAM.

After gainining his Bachelor and Master degrees in Chemical Engineering, Mehdi obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering, at The University of Queensland, Australia. He held one of Australia’s most prestigious scholarship for research higher degree (IPRS). With an extensive knowledgebase and multiple skills, he has forged a successful career that includes mining waste management, mineral processing, surface chemistry, particle technology, process engineering, separation technologies, and project management, all of which were developed and strengthened in the Academic, Resource Mining, and Oil & Gas sectors. As a highly competent research scientist and engineer in a multidisciplinary area, his work contributes to various industries by improving the traditional methods aiming for higher quality products and cleaner environment.

Experienced materials engineering researcher with proven experience in developing chemically tuned structures for commercial opportunities. My unique skill set spans interfacing technical analysis (morphology, composition, performance, and durability) of sustainable composite materials with economic feasibility and quality system requirements from research and industry associates. I am a team player, and the guiding principles by which I function in all facets of my life include ‘shared values’, ‘shared vision’, ‘complementary expertise’ and ‘diligence’.

Kim Baber is a Fellow in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Queensland, and is a registered practising Architect. Kim is a member of the UQ ‘Centre for Future Timber Structures’, and the Australian Research Council ‘Advance Timber Hub’. Kim teaches Architecture and Civil Engineering students where they design, develop and construct prototypes that test innovations in timber design. Kim is a recipient of the Richard Stanton Memorial Award and is also a Gottstein Fellow, both recognising his national contribution to Timber Architecture through his projects and research work. He has also been awarded the Queensland ‘Emerging Architect’ Prize and received multiple awards in Public and Residential Architecture from the Australian Institute of Architects.

I am a sociocultural anthropologist in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland and current (2021-present) Director of the Master of Development Practice program. My research is focussed on the social and cultural dimensions of ecological and economic change, especially that driven by the extractives industry and experienced by Indigenous Peoples. Current research is engaged in the epistemological, political and practical problems of 'seeing' harms from large scale mining projects, especially lithium in the 'critical minerals' extraction boom (see a recent FILM made with research collaborators), and in relation to groundwater and associated community futures. Ethnographic methodologies and theory that rely on sustained, engaged, and ethical relationships characterise my practice in Australia and Chile and resulting publications.

I design courses for and teach in the undergraduate major in anthropology, as well as for multidisciplinary areas of teaching in theory and methodology for Humanities and Social Science Faculty Honours students and in program design for the Development Practice students. HDR students from anthropology and other social science backgrounds undertake research under my supervision on questions associated with ecological futures, especially water, but also territorial relations, and in areas of political anthropology, and decolonial and feminist theory and method.

Professor Kesh Baboolal is registered with both the Australian Medical Board and General Medical Council UK as a Nephrologist and Physician in Internal Medicine. He was awarded FRACP and FRCP from the Royal College of Physicians in both the Australia and the UK. He is currently a consultant nephrologist and general physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. He has a sub specialist interest in renal transplantation.

Professor Baboolal graduated from St Thomas’s Hospital, University of London. He undertook post-graduate training at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in Oxford and Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He was awarded a Juvenile Diabetes International Research Fellow at Stanford University, where he undertook a clinical and research fellowship in Nephrology from 1990-95. He completed his doctorate degree, Doctor of Medicine (MD) and was subsequently appointed as a consultant in nephrology, renal transplantation and general medicine in 1997 at the University Hospital of Wales UK, where he worked until 2012. In 2012 he moved with his family to Australia.

In 2003, Professor Baboolal successfully completed an LLM in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice from Cardiff University Law School. His dissertation entitled “My body as my property” explored whether property rights exist in the body and whether the development of property rights would provide a legal framework to design legislation that regulates organ donation and transplantation.

In 2006, he completed an eMBA program at INSEAD Paris which, together with the European Health Leadership Program at INSEAD, has provided him with the business knowledge and leadership skills required for senior leadership in healthcare services.

Throughout his clinical career, Professor Keshwar Baboolal has maintained a number of interests related to his specialist clinical experience, including:

Research

An active research program in areas related to nephrology, transplantation and health economics. He has published extensively in leading international peer reviewed journals. He has also received peer-reviewed grants, lectured at national and international meetings and has been on editorial boards of international medical journals.

Medico-Legal Interests

Professor Baboolal has helped develop clinical, ethical and regulatory guidelines for many aspects of transplantation in the UK on behalf of the UK Government, UK Department of Health, UK Royal Colleges and Professional Bodies including the British Transplant Society.

Medical Leadership

Professor Baboolal has undertaken a number of medical leadership roles in the UK and Australia. Using the business knowledge and leadership skills together with his clinical knowledge and experience, Professor Baboolal has taken forward a number of initiatives that have redefined and improved clinical services to deliver efficient, high quality services that meet the needs of patients and their families

I have been an academic with a deep passion for biomedical and health education for over two decades, teaching extensively across various disciplines, including medicine, nursing, paramedicine, rehabilitation science, and biomedical science. My primary teaching responsibilities have included delivering courses in physiology, anatomy, pathology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, clinical methodology, clinical bedside coaching, basic and advanced life skills, procedural skills, and virtual surgical skills to student cohorts ranging from 10 to 1,500. By integrating biomedical and clinical concepts, I have enhanced both learning outcomes and the overall student experience.

My significant contributions to health professionals' education have been recognized through numerous institutional awards and national teaching awards and nominations. Throughout my academic career, I have developed and implemented innovative teaching methodologies to enrich student understanding of basic and clinically applied sciences. These methodologies include eLearning, mLearning, VoPP, flipped classrooms, and patient- and simulation-based learning.

I take great pride in the diverse facets of my academic and professional roles, which have shaped my identity as a CBL tutor, course and module coordinator, lecturer, emerging researcher, and team leader. I am particularly humbled by the positive feedback from students, which continues to fuel my passion for fostering academic excellence and shaping the prosocial behaviors of future healthcare professionals.

Associate Professor Stuart Bade MBBS FRACS is Chief of Surgery, Division of Surgery and Perioperative Services, for Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service at the Queensland Children's Hospital. After completing his Plastic Surgery training he undertook two further years of subspecialty training in paediatric plastic surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He has previously been Director of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital as well as the Queensland Children's Hospital. He is currently President of the Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association and Co-Chair of the Queenland Surgical Services Clinical Network. He actively supports global health initiatives and is a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Operation Smile Australia.

Associate Professor Bade's research activities revolve around his areas of clinical expertise in cleft lip and palate surgery, ear reconstruction and paediatric plastic surgery as well as oversight for the research activities of the broader Division of Surgery at the Queensland Children's Hospital through his role as Chief of Surgery. He has a keen interest in education and training having been Deputy Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ASSET (Australian and New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training) Committee as well as being a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons Curriculum Review Project.

Richard Bade is a Senior Research Fellow and ARC DECRA fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Queensland. He obtained his PhD from the University Jaume I, Castellon, Spain in 2016, which focussed on analytical tools for the investigation of licit and illicit drug residues in water before joining the Population Health Chemistry Group at the University of South Australia in 2017, where his research focussed on the development of quantitative and qualitative methods for the determination of illicit drugs in wastewater. He is involved with the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, funded by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, in collaboration with the University of South Australia.

His research interests are associated with the surveillance, detection and identification of new psychoactive substances in wastewater and other matrices as well as exploring the impact of chemical and pathogen exposure during mass gatherings. Dr Bade currently leads an expanding international consortium exlporing the prevalence of new psychoactive substances worldwide (currently from 23 countries, 60 sites). He is a strong supporter of collaborative research, with ongoing projects involving academic and industrial partners in Australia and around the world.

Dr Foluke Abigail Badejo is a Lecturer in Marketing at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. She holds a PhD, a Master of Marketing Management, and a Bachelor of Communication in Marketing and Journalism from Griffith University. She also holds a Master of Public Relations from The University of Southern Queensland, and a Graduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing from The University of Queensland.

Dr Badejo has multidisciplinary research expertise with a focus on vulnerable consumers and harm reduction, measurable social impact, and sustainable development in the domains of:

• Social Marketing
• Transformative Services Research
• Branding and Promotion
• Social Enterprise
• Public Health
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

She specialises in qualitative and multi-method research approaches including co-design, discourse analysis, ethnography, focus groups, depth and phenomenological interviews, systematic literature reviews, to name a few. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Marketing Theory, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Social Marketing, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, European Sports Management Quarterly, BMC Public Health, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Health Psychology Review, Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Ageing.

She has been a principal or named investigator on research projects attracting over half a million dollars in grant funding including from OurWatch, Suncorp, Energy Consumers Australia, North Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Queensland Health, Diabetes Queensland, and UNICEF Malawi. Dr Badejo has been an invited keynote speaker and guest panelist at national and international conferences, including the 2019 World Social Marketing Conference, Change Conference 2019, Servsig 2020, International Conference of Markets and Development (ICMD, 2021), and Consumer Culture Insights Group Roundtable, 2022.

As a lecturer, Dr Badejo is passionate about providing students with an engaging and transformative learning experience. As such, she strives to equip her students with robust theoretical knowledge, practical skills, leadership attributes and the growth mindset and capabilities they need to make their mark on the world. To this end, she prioritises innovation, creativity, and a student-centred, technology-augmented, active learning approach in her classrooms. Dr Badejo has taught widely across the disciplines of Marketing and Public Relations and leverages this breadth of experience, alongside cross-cultural competence and epistemic inclusion, to enrich her teaching practice and facilitate student success.

Prior to her academic career, Dr Badejo enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning industry practitioner with over a decade of marketing management and communications experience across the Higher Education, International Development, State Government, Nonprofits, and Banking sectors.

Dr Bademosi received his BSc(Hons) in Medical Physiology from the University of Lagos (Nigeria) in 2010, and his MSc and PhD in Neuroscience from the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He pioneered super-resolution single-molecule microscopy in vivo during his PhD, where he examined nanoscale changes in synaptic proteins during neurotransmission and under general anaesthesia. In 2018, obtained the highly competitive European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) postdoctoral fellowship.to carry out his postdoctoral training in the lab of Professor Patrik Verstreken who is the current Director of of the Centre for Brain and Disease Research, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, KU Leuven, Belgium. Here, he characterised how disease coding variants in risk genes for Parkinson's Disease elicit onset of neuronal degeneration (published in Neuron). Dr Bademosi was awarded the inaugural Race Against Dementia - Dementia Australia Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in 2020, to carry examine advanced nanoscale investigation into changes in the organisation and dynamics of the Motor Neuron Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia linked protein TDP-43. His research has been supported by grants from the Brain Foundation Australia, Dementia Australia Research Foundation, Motor Neuron Disease Research Institute of Australia, and the Australian Research Council.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Logic in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. From 2022-2025, my work was supported by the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE220100544 (383,975 AUD in funds) given by the Australian Research Council. I serve on the editorial boards of Archive for Mathematical Logic and Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, I am one of the many academic descendants of G. H. Hardy through the path G. H. Hardy - R. Rado - K. Gravett - John N. Crossley - John L. Bell - G. Priest - Z. Weber - me. Jointly with John Crossley and John Stillwell, I have written a book entitled What is Mathematical Logic? (2ed.) to be published by Oxford University Press.

Dr Nilufar (Nell) Baghaei is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland and the Co-Director of the Mixed Reality Lab. Her research interests are Virtual Reality, Game-based Learning, AI in Education and Persuasive Technology (Google Scholar h-index: 26, citations: ~2300). She is an Associate Editor of Int Journal Human-Computer Studies, Virtual Reality and Games for Health, and is on the Editorial Board/Programme Committee of several other journals and international conferences. She was one of the Programme Chairs for the International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2024. Dr Baghaei is supervising a number of HDR students on Games and VR related topics and sits on various UQ committees. Before joining UQ, she directed the Games and Extended Reality Lab at Massey University, New Zealand, and held multiple leadership positions in the ITP sector. Prior to that, she was a researcher at CSIRO.

Dr. Tao Bai is a senior lecturer in International Business. His research interests include multinational firm strategy, non-market strategy including political activity and social activity, and the intersection between, with the focus on emerging market multinationals as a field of research and practice. He has published articles at Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, and Journal of Business Research, and in top Chinese academic and practical journals.

Feifei Bai is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is also an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. She was awarded the Advance Queensland Fellow in 2018. Her research contributions can be recognised by a strong publication record, secured over $4.6 million research projects, patent commercialisation, and research outcome implementation by the industry. She serves as a guest associate editor for the special issue “Flexible and Resilient Urban Energy Systems” of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems in 2021. She is an associate editor for the journal of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and an assistant editor for the International Journal of Green Energy. She also actively collaborates with Australian industries including Energy Queensland, NOJA Power, Powerlink, AEMO, and EPEC Group. One ARENA project in which she was a key researcher received an Australian Engineering Excellence Award in 2020.