Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (English and Writing)
- Email:brooke.collins-gearing@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5178
Career Summary
Biography
Brooke received her PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2002. She has taught in both Aboriginal Studies and Literature. Her research interests are in children's literature, Indigenous literature and Australian literature and film.
Research Expertise
Brooke's doctorate examined non-Indigenous representations of Indigenality in Australian children's literature. Her first ARC Indigenous researchers grant looked at what young Murri youth liked to read. Her second ARC Indigenous researchers grant examined what "reading" actually means for Indigenous tertiary students. Her third ARC Discovery project with Professor Nancy Wright and Dr. Therese Davis was concerned with Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration in film and literature.
Teaching Expertise
From 1999 til 2003 Collins-Gearing taught in both Aboriginal Studies and English at the University of Newcastle. From 2004-2006 she taught at the University of Southern Queensland until she returned to Newcastle in 2007.
Research Expertise
Brooke's doctorate examined non-Indigenous representations of Indigenality in Australian children's literature. Her first ARC Indigenous researchers grant looked at what young Murri youth liked to read. Her second ARC Indigenous researchers grant examined what "reading" actually means for Indigenous tertiary students. Her third ARC Discovery project with Professor Nancy Wright and Dr. Therese Davis was concerned with Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration in film and literature.
Teaching Expertise
From 1999 til 2003 Collins-Gearing taught in both Aboriginal Studies and English at the University of Newcastle. From 2004-2006 she taught at the University of Southern Queensland until she returned to Newcastle in 2007.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Newcastle
- Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
Keywords
- Communications
- Cultural Studies and Literature
- Cultural studies
- Indigenous Education
- Representations of indigenality in literature
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
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| 470531 | Young adult literature | 25 |
| 450109 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature, journalism and professional writing | 50 |
| 470506 | Children's literature | 25 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
| Title | Organisation / Department |
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| Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci Australia |
Academic appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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| 1/3/2006 - | Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
| 1/1/2006 - 1/12/2007 |
Fellowship ARC - Discovery - Indigenous Researchers' Development |
ARC Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (5 outputs)
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| 2023 |
Collins-Gearing B, 'Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks: Ceremonial Listening to Plants', Storying Plants in Australian Children s and Young Adult Literature. Roots and Winged Seeds, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 33-50 (2023) [B1]
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| 2021 |
Collins-Gearing B, 'At the Heart of it: Once there was a Boy', A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children's Picture Books, Routledge, New York and London 69-86 (2021) [B1]
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| 2017 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Blair N, '"Reflective Practice: Ancient Wisdom and Practice Australian Indigenous Reflections in Teacher Education Through Shared Storying."', Reflective Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, Springer, Singapore 63-83 (2017) [B1]
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| 2013 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Narrating the "Classic" on Stolen Ground: Anne of Green Gables', Anne Around the World, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca 164-178 (2013) [B1]
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| 2011 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Huijser H, 'Blood is thicker than water: Stains on the land in Bra Boys', Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London 26-30 (2011) [B2]
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Journal article (22 outputs)
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| 2023 |
Collins-Gearing B, 'The Threads That Weave Me', M/C Journal, 26
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| 2020 |
Britten A, Collins-Gearing B, 'Flourishing in country: An examination of well-being in Australian YA fiction', Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 12 15-39 (2020) [C1] This article is the result of a collaboration between two academics-one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous-to investigate the representation of Indigeneity in two contemporary YA n... [more] This article is the result of a collaboration between two academics-one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous-to investigate the representation of Indigeneity in two contemporary YA novels. Melissa Lucashenko's killing Darcy is narrated by multiple Indigenous and non-Indigenous characters, whereas Clare Atkins's Nona and Me is told from the perspective of a white character and explores her relationship with an Indigenous community. Cultural identity forms a significant part of well-being, and this article investigates versions of sufficient well-being. It explores how the novels represent flourishing subjects-both Indigenous and non-Indigenous-in the context of Australia as it struggles to come to terms with its colonial past and demonstrates how cognitive mapping replaces damaging colonial assumptions about Indigenous Peoples with a model of overcoming.
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| 2020 |
Collins-Gearing B, ''Storying the World with the Voices of Children'', 'Spare the Rod': Convention on the Rights of the child Thirty Years On Papers and Proceedings NSW Chapter Sydney: Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc 2020, 51-56 (2020)
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| 2019 |
Collins-Gearing B, 'Listening to the Stories Woven Around Us', WESTERLY, 64 24-33 (2019) [C1]
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| 2017 |
Herb A, Collins-Gearing B, Huijser H, 'Of windows and mirrors Ambelin Kwaymullina's the tribe series, transformative fan cultures and aboriginal epistemologies', Westerly, 62 110-124 (2017) [C1]
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| 2017 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Herb A, Huijser H, 'Of Windows and Mirrors', WESTERLY, 62 110-124 (2017) [C1]
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| 2016 |
Collins-Gearing B, Smith R, 'Burning Off: Indigenising the Discipline of English', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 45 159-169 (2016) [C1]
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| 2015 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Cadungog V, Camilleri S, Comensoli E, Duncan D, Green L, et al., 'Listenin Up: Re-imagining Ourselves through Stories of and from Country', M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 18 (2015) [C1]
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| 2014 |
Abbas H, Collins-Gearing BM, 'Dancing with an Illegitimate Feminism: A Female Buginese Scholar s Voice in Australian Academia', M/C Journal, 17 (2014) [C1]
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| 2014 |
Huijser H, Collins-Gearing BM, 'Shades of Indigenous Belonging in Samson & Delilah', New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences, 3 69-83 (2014) [C1]
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| 2012 |
Kwaymullina B, Collins-Gearing BM, Kwaymullina A, Pushman T, 'Growing up the future: Children's stories and Aboriginal ecology', M/C Journal, 15 1-7 (2012) [C1]
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| 2010 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Osland DM, 'Who will save us from the rabbits?: Rewriting the past allegorically', Looking Glass, The, 14 1-9 (2010) [C1]
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| 2010 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Reclaiming the wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the historical perception and construction of Indigenous knowledges in Australian cinema', M/C Journal, 13 1-4 (2010) [C1]
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| 2008 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Not all sorrys are created equal, some are more equal than 'others'', M/C Journal, 11 1-12 (2008) [C1]
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| 2007 |
Huijser H, Collins-Gearing BM, 'Representing Indigenous stories in the cinema: Between collaboration and appropriation', International Journal of Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7 1-9 (2007) [C1]
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| 2007 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Making sense of 'their' sense of place: Australian children's literature landscape on Indigenous Land', Journal of Children's Literature, 33 27-37 (2007) [C1]
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| 2006 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Firth A, 'Incommensuraility: A Blackfella-Non-Indigenous Non-Conversation', Social Alternatives, 25 54-58 (2006) [C1]
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| 2006 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Re-Reading Representations of Indigenality in Australian Children's Literature: a History', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 35 61-67 (2006) [C1]
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| 2005 |
Wright NE, Collins-Gearing BM, 'The Rhetoric of Benevolence as an Impediment to the Protection of Indigenous Cultural Rights: A Study of Australian Literature and Law', Journal of Australian Studies, 85 57-68 (2005) [C1]
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| 2004 |
Wright NE, Collins-Gearing BM, 'Comparative Study of the Status of Women in Canada and Australia', Australian Canadian Studies, 22 1-7 (2004) [C1]
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| 2003 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Imagining indigenality in romance and fantasy fiction for children', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 13 32-42 (2003) [C1]
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Review (1 outputs)
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| 2020 |
Collins-Gearing B, 'Warwick Thornton s The Beach is a delicate conversation with Country (2020)
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Conference (4 outputs)
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| 2010 |
Collins-Gearing BM, Smith RL, 'Disciplining English: The challenge of Indigenising the discipline', A Scholarly Affair. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference. Program and Abstracts, Byron Bay, NSW (2010) [E3]
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| 2008 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'White women trippin over: Non-Indigenous women and their need to represent the 'real' Indigenous sista', The Art of the Real: National Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Program, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E3]
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| 2004 |
Wright NE, Collins-Gearing BM, 'Editorial', The Australian Canadian Studies, The University of Newcastle (2004) [E4]
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| 2003 |
Collins-Gearing BM, 'Non-indigenous dreaming in historical writing for children', Voicing Dissent, New Talents 21C: Next Generation Australian Studies No 76, Queensland, Australia (2003) [E2]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 7 |
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| Total funding | $236,986 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20101 grants / $750
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Byron Bay NSW, 7 - 9 December 2010, Byron Bay 2010$750
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2010 |
| Funding Finish | 2011 |
| GNo | G1000888 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20081 grants / $1,700
The 2008 International L.M. Montgomery Conference, The Univeristy of Prince Edward Island, 25/6/2008 - 29/6/2008$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2008 |
| Funding Finish | 2008 |
| GNo | G0188665 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20071 grants / $16,000
Aboriginal identities within architecture and the built environment: Perceptions of a sample of indigenous and non-indigenous architects.$16,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Ms Tara Mallie, Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing, Professor Michael Ostwald |
| Scheme | Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2007 |
| Funding Finish | 2007 |
| GNo | G0186723 |
| Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
| Category | 1CS |
| UON | Y |
20062 grants / $204,536
Working Together: Indigenous and Non-indigenous Collaboration in Australian Film and Literature$184,140
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing, Dr Nancy Wright, Dr Therese Davis |
| Scheme | Discovery Projects |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2006 |
| Funding Finish | 2008 |
| GNo | G0185275 |
| Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
| Category | 1CS |
| UON | Y |
Reading as a cultural and historical practice$20,396
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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| Project Team | Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing |
| Scheme | Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2006 |
| Funding Finish | 2007 |
| GNo | G0186618 |
| Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
| Category | 1CS |
| UON | Y |
20031 grants / $7,000
Appropriation of Indigenous Cultural Property in Australian Children's Literature, 1860-2000$7,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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| Project Team | Dr Nancy Wright, Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing |
| Scheme | Project Grant |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2003 |
| Funding Finish | 2003 |
| GNo | G0182361 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
19991 grants / $7,000
A study of what rural koori youth want and need in contemporary literature$7,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Brooke Collins-Gearing |
| Scheme | Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 1999 |
| Funding Finish | 1999 |
| GNo | G0177999 |
| Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
| Category | 1CS |
| UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Completed18
Current12
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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| 2024 | PhD | Human, Non-Human and More-Than Human Connections in the Anthropocene: Proposing Hope as an Embodied Reconnection With Nature and Self | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2023 | PhD | The Myth of Barbarism: A Creative Deconstruction of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2022 | PhD | The Experiences of Aboriginal Families Caring for Children with Disabilities | PhD (Speech Pathology), College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2022 | PhD | A Creative Exploration of Tertiary Education in SFF for Adolescents and Adults | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2022 | PhD | What's Bella got to do with it? Exploring Representations of, and Motivations for, Love in Stephenie Myer's Twilight Series. | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2021 | PhD | Experiments and Experiences of Narrative Cause and Effect | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2020 | PhD | Design and Development of Visual and Interactive Educational Resources for Local Indigenous Languages through Literature Reviews and Research to Investigate the Culture and Meaning of our Indigenous Languages. Through using Song, Storytelling and Visual Stimulation that will Encourage all Levels of Community to Embrace | PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2019 | PhD | Brushed | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2019 | PhD | Aboriginal Australian Crime Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2019 | Masters | The Representation of Social Justice in Middle-Grade Fiction | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2017 | PhD | "Writing for Children is Usually Purposeful, its Intention Being to Foster in the Child Reader a Positive Apperception of Some Socio-Cultural Values Which, it is Assumed, are Shared by Author and Audience" (Stephens, 3) | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2015 | PhD | 'Australia' in Australian Children's Fantasy | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
| Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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| 2024 | PhD | Fragments of Us | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2023 | PhD | Luk-khrueng Between Worlds | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2022 | Masters | Chasing Crocodiles: The Representation of a Child's Imagination in Children's Literature and how this Encourages Transformative Agency | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2021 | PhD | The Stories Behind the Torres Strait Islander Migration Myth: the journey of the sap/bethey | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2021 | PhD | “Beneath and within and between it all”: The Construction of Adolescent Female Subjectivity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2019 | PhD | Negotiating Dark Matter: Trauma and Ecology in the Fiction of Contemporary Australian Women Writers | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2019 | PhD | A Theatre of Post/Colonial Redaction: Mapping the Terrains of an Aboriginal Self | PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2018 | PhD | The Critical Construction of Realistic Southern Gothic in the American Literary Canon | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2018 | PhD | All the Voices in Our Head: Exploring Female Identity by Reimagining the Fairy Tale and the Young Adult Novel | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2016 | PhD | Halfway to Nowhere: Liminal Female Journeys as "Coming of Awareness" in Contemporary Australian Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2016 | PhD | Split River Novella and Essays: South Asia in Peri-Federation Australia (1890-1915) | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2015 | PhD | Female Victimhood and Suicide in the Naturalistic Novel | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2014 | PhD | Eatdirtzian Geosophy: Approaching Ethical Reading Practices | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2013 | PhD | Dancing with Australian Feminism: Helen Garner's Postcards from Surfers Viewed from a Buginese Perspective with a Partial Translation into Indonesian | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2012 | PhD | State of Origin | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2010 | PhD | Can Children's Literature Be Non-Colonising? A Dialogic Approach to Nonsense | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2009 | Masters | Questioning "Authentic" Aboriginal Architecture: An Analysis of Recent Cultural Centre Designs | M Philosophy (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2008 | PhD | "Relating to Country": Listening, Reflecting and Relating to Contemporary Aboriginal Stories From Won:arua Country in the Hunter Valley | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing
Position
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
English and Writing
Contact Details
| brooke.collins-gearing@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | (02) 4921 5178 |
| Fax | (02) 4921 6985 |
Office
| Room | MC145 |
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| Building | McMullin |
| Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |