Dr Natalie Collie
Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 336 52164
Researcher biography
Natalie has a background in the study of literature, culture, writing and the media, with a research focus on questions of space, identity, and communication. She was awarded her PhD in 2012. The practice-led research examined the relationship between cities, subjectivity, and narrative in speculative fiction. Her current research includes a study of gothic images of the future of cities in science fiction and other forms of media and culture. She is also interested in the impact of digital technologies on contemporary culture, the public sphere, and the interaction between physical and virtual forms of space and identity.
Book Chapters
Collie, Natalie and Wilson-Barnao, Caroline (2020). Playing with TikTok: algorithmic culture and the future of creative work. The Future of Creative Work: Creativity and Digital Disruption. (pp. 172-188) edited by Greg Hearn. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781839101106.00020
Hearn, Greg, Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2018). New media challenges to the theory and practice of communication engagement. The handbook of communication engagement. (pp. 515-527) edited by Kim A. Johnston and Maureen Taylor. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119167600.ch35
Journal Articles
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2024). Art rocks: atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 27 (3), 405-427. doi: 10.1177/13678779231219016
Kilner, Kerry, Collie, Natalie and Clement, Jennifer (2019). Using innovative teaching practices to inspire critically engaged reading and writing in a neoliberal university environment. Higher Education Research and Development, 38 (1), 110-123. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1537258
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2018). The droning of intimacy: bodies, data, and sensory devices. Continuum, 32 (6), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1525922
Hearn, Greg, Collie, Natalie, Lyle, Peter, Choi, Jaz Hee-Jeong and Foth, Marcus (2014). Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems. Futures, 62, 202-212. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.04.010
Collie, Natalie (2013). Walking in the city: urban space, stories, and gender. Gender Forum: An Internet Platform for Gender and Women's Studies (42), 1-5.
Collie, Natalie (2011). Cities of the imagination: science fiction, urban space, and community engagement in urban planning. Futures, 43 (4), 424-431. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.01.005
Conference Papers
Collie, Natalie (2022). My future town: imagining the future of the regions. Creative arts and human flourishing symposium, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1-2 December 2022. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Collie, Natalie and Kilner, Kerry (2018). Reading the Cirrus interface. The Literary Interface: 2018 Literary Studies Convention, Australian National University, Canberra, 3-7 July 2018.
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Collie, Natalie and Hearn, Greg (2017). Intimate infrastructures: Data and desire in the digital bedroom. At home with digital media, QUT, Brisbane, 2-3 November 2017.
Kilner, Kerry, Collie, Natalie and Clement, Jennifer (2017). Exploring Cirrus: a digital learning platform for engaged reading, analysis, and writing. Reading and Writing in the Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies Classroom: Theory and Practice, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6 - 8 July 2017.
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline, Collie, Natalie and Hearn, Greg (2017). Intimate Infrastructures: Measuring sentiment from the inside out. Digital Intimacies: Connection and disconnection, RMIT, Melbourne, 13 - 14 November 2017.
Ahmad Tajuddin, Siti Nor Amalina, Collie, Natalie and Zhu, Yunxia (2017). Exploring the construction of 'national unity' in Malaysia: Framing analysis of texts and audiences. International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 18-20, 2016. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences – Web of Conferences. doi: 10.1051/shsconf/20173300011
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline and Collie, Natalie (2017). Intimate surveillance: Probing users from the inside out. Cultures of capitalism: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference 2017, Massey University, Wellington Campus Aotearoa New Zealand, 6 - 8 December 2017.
Collie, Natalie (2016). A writing architecture: Science fiction and the urban imaginary. A colloquium on ficto-critical approaches to a writing architecture, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland, 4 - 5 August, 2016.
Ahmad Tajuddin, S., Collie, N. and Zhu, Y. (2016). Constructing “national unity”: A framing analysis of Malaysian government advertising. ICA 2016: Communicating with Power, Fukuoka Japan, 9 - 13 June 2016.
Collie, Natalie (2015). Monstrous cities in gothic science fiction. Gothic Spaces: Boundaries, Mergence, Liminalities (GAANZA 2015), Sydney, Australia, 21-22 January 2015.
Collie, Natalie (2015). Gothic urban futures. The Popular Gothic, Popular Culture Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, 5 February 2015.