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]
