Anna Hickey-Moody is a professor of intersectional humanities at Maynooth university, Ireland. She is also affiliated with media and communication at RMIT University. ^{[1] [2]} Hickey-Moody holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2017-2021). ^{[1] [3]}

Biography

Hickey-Moody completed a Bachelor of Arts ( Social Anthropology, Theatre Studies) at the University of Adelaide. ^[4] She completed her PhD at the University of South Australia on the work of Restless Dance Theatre. ^{[5] [4]}

Hickey-Moody worked at the University of South Australia as a lecturer from 2000 to 2005. ^[6]

From 2004 to 2007 Hickey-Moody was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Monash University where she worked on the Youth Arts Beyond Risk project. ^[6] The book based on this work is called Youth, Arts and Education and was published with Routledge in 2013. ^[7]

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. ^[6]

In 2009 Hickey-Moody moved to the University of Sydney where she held a number of teaching and supervision positions, including working as the Departmental Undergraduate Coordinator until 2013. ^[6] During this time she also published Unimaginable Bodies (Sense/Brill) and a number of edited collections. ^[8]

Between 2013 and 2016, Hickey-Moody worked at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was the Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning and the Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. ^[6] While at Goldsmiths College, Hickey-Moody also co-founded the Disability Research Centre and held a number of teaching positions. ^[9]

In 2016 Hickey-Moody was made associate professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney. ^[6]

In 2017 Hickey-Moody was made Professor of Media and Communications at RMIT University, where she continues to work (as of September 2020). ^{[2] [1]} 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. ^[2]

Hickey-Moody was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2017. ^[3] She currently acts as project lead for the Future Fellowship project: “ Interfaith Childhoods”. ^{[1] [10]}

Hickey-Moody is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Education and Social Research Institute at the Manchester Metropolitan University and a Visiting Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. ^[4]

Expertise/Research Areas

Hickey-Moody is considered a leading expert in art-based research practices, Deleuzian theory and affect theory. ^{[11] [1] [12]} Hickey-Moody uses a philosophically informed cultural studies approach to her research, working in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. ^[1] She is known for her work with young people, people with disabilities, migrant communities, and marginalised communities. ^[13]

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.

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