Adam Phillip Dodd
Academic Interests
I am interested in the cultural history of the life sciences, with a focus on the role that visioning technologies have played in developing conceptions of nonhuman animals, especially subvisible invertebrates.
My postdoctoral research project, "Making the Insect World: The Science and Fiction of Entomology," comprises part of the larger project, Animals as Objects and Animals as Signs, headed by Liv Emma Thorsen.
Background
I received my PhD in Media and Culture from the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, in 2009. Prior to this I completed a Master of Arts degree in Cultural Studies (2003), Honours in Communication and Cultural Studies (1998), and Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies and History) at the University of Queensland.
I have taught classes in rhetoric, advanced research methods, ideology and critical theory, film and television studies, media studies, communication and discourse analysis, museum studies, and music subcultures.
I have been a practicing musician for over 10 years, and have performed at numerous locations throughout Australia, including a live composition for Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1928) as part of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art's "Out of the Shadows" programme (2008). I am a co-founder of the peer-reviewed online media and cultural studies journal, m/c.
"Beetle. London: Reaktion (forthcoming in 2012)
"Entomological Rhetoric and the Fabrication of the Insect World" in The Semiotics of Animal Representation, Eds. Morten Tønnessen and Kadri Tüür, (Nature, Culture and Literature series) Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. (forthcoming in 2012)
"Minding Microfaunae: Scale, Value, Narrative" in The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism, Ed. Harvey Lemelin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (forthcoming in 2012)
"Size is in the Eye of the Beholder: On the Cultural History of Microfaunae in Seventeenth-century Europe" in KULVER Project anthology on cultural values and aesthetics, publication details T.B.A.
Various articles on media and culture, and book reviews, in m/c: a journal of media and culture