Camilla Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Notre Dame Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6281-8607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A public orgy of misogyny: Gender, power, media, and legal spectacle in Depp v Heard
Possibly no other media event has given rise to the widespread ridiculing of domestic violence as the livestreaming of Johnny Depp’s defamation action against his former wife Amber Heard. This article analyses the social media commentary surrounding a Tik Tok released by the Milani cosmetic company, which used the attacks on Heard as an advertising opportunity. The paper contextualises Milani’s intervention in the case within the wider social med…
Friday essay: Matrilineal societies exist around the world – it’s time to look beyond the patriarchy
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court
This article analyses the cultural construction of gender in a highly mediated, globally publicised Australian murder trial. Using the tools of multimodal socio-linguistic analysis, it interrogates the construction of a key female witness – known by the legal pseudonym ‘JC’ – in the physical, digitally distributed and livestreamed courtroom and subsequently through the media sphere, including in newspapers, magazines, podcasts, television and soc…
Beyond Prometheus: Creativity, Discourse, Ideology, and the Anthropocene
This article considers the strange confluence of the rhetoric of creativity and commerce at key points across the “Great Acceleration”. It argues that although the idea of creativity has its most common contemporary expression in art, it does not in fact emerge from the discourse of art. Rather, the idea of creativity as a specifically human possession emerges from the discourse of nature at the end of the eighteenth century, and particularly in …
Creative Writing as Research IV Part 2
This special issue of TEXT responds to the current challenge faced by writers in the academy to identify with greater precision what it is about their work which is genuinely an original contribution to knowledge across the field of creative writing (or, more rarely, in another field). It follows from the acclaim with which the first three _Creative Writing as Research_ special issues, published in TEXT in 2010, 2012 and 2014, have been met. In t…
Ideas and Ideology
The Power of Ideas: Essays on Australian Politics and History , by Gregory Melleuish (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, pp. 378, AU$39.95). Publisher’s website: http://www.scholarly.info/new.htm#power-ideas
All the way with LBJ
A fictional account of Lyndon Johnson's arrival in Sydney, Australia, 22 October 1966
Faking it: History and Creative Writing
This paper examines the differences between historical and fictional representations of recognisable pasts, in an attempt to negotiate a critical and theoretical relationship between history and fiction. It argues that the 'fake' or 'counterfeit' of fiction may present us with a way of intervening in the discourses of reality - playing in the gap between the narratives of history and the actualities of the past
The Invention of Creativity: The Emergence of a Discourse
Creativity is increasingly cited as the key to social and economic change in the twenty-first century. It is also a very modern concept-making its first appearance as an English noun in 1875. This essay investigates the cultural construction of creativity in the context of the history of ideas. It understands creativity not as an innate human instinct or ability, but as an idea that emerges out of specific historical moments, shaped by the discou…
A public orgy of misogyny: Gender, power, media, and legal spectacle in Depp v Heard
Possibly no other media event has given rise to the widespread ridiculing of domestic violence as the livestreaming of Johnny Depp’s defamation action against his former wife Amber Heard. This article analyses the social media commentary surrounding a Tik Tok released by the Milani cosmetic company, which used the attacks on Heard as an advertising opportunity. The paper contextualises Milani’s intervention in the case within the wider social med…
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court
This article analyses the cultural construction of gender in a highly mediated, globally publicised Australian murder trial. Using the tools of multimodal socio-linguistic analysis, it interrogates the construction of a key female witness – known by the legal pseudonym ‘JC’ – in the physical, digitally distributed and livestreamed courtroom and subsequently through the media sphere, including in newspapers, magazines, podcasts, television and soc…
Faking it: History and Creative Writing
This paper examines the differences between historical and fictional representations of recognisable pasts, in an attempt to negotiate a critical and theoretical relationship between history and fiction. It argues that the 'fake' or 'counterfeit' of fiction may present us with a way of intervening in the discourses of reality - playing in the gap between the narratives of history and the actualities of the past
The Invention of Creativity: The Emergence of a Discourse
Creativity is increasingly cited as the key to social and economic change in the twenty-first century. It is also a very modern concept-making its first appearance as an English noun in 1875. This essay investigates the cultural construction of creativity in the context of the history of ideas. It understands creativity not as an innate human instinct or ability, but as an idea that emerges out of specific historical moments, shaped by the discou…
Faking it: History and Creative Writing
This paper examines the differences between historical and fictional representations of recognisable pasts, in an attempt to negotiate a critical and theoretical relationship between history and fiction. It argues that the 'fake' or 'counterfeit' of fiction may present us with a way of intervening in the discourses of reality - playing in the gap between the narratives of history and the actualities of the past
Ideas and Ideology
The Power of Ideas: Essays on Australian Politics and History , by Gregory Melleuish (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, pp. 378, AU$39.95). Publisher’s website: http://www.scholarly.info/new.htm#power-ideas
All the way with LBJ
A fictional account of Lyndon Johnson's arrival in Sydney, Australia, 22 October 1966
Creative Writing as Research IV Part 2
This special issue of TEXT responds to the current challenge faced by writers in the academy to identify with greater precision what it is about their work which is genuinely an original contribution to knowledge across the field of creative writing (or, more rarely, in another field). It follows from the acclaim with which the first three _Creative Writing as Research_ special issues, published in TEXT in 2010, 2012 and 2014, have been met. In t…
Beyond Prometheus: Creativity, Discourse, Ideology, and the Anthropocene
This article considers the strange confluence of the rhetoric of creativity and commerce at key points across the “Great Acceleration”. It argues that although the idea of creativity has its most common contemporary expression in art, it does not in fact emerge from the discourse of art. Rather, the idea of creativity as a specifically human possession emerges from the discourse of nature at the end of the eighteenth century, and particularly in …
Friday essay: Matrilineal societies exist around the world – it’s time to look beyond the patriarchy
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court
This article analyses the cultural construction of gender in a highly mediated, globally publicised Australian murder trial. Using the tools of multimodal socio-linguistic analysis, it interrogates the construction of a key female witness – known by the legal pseudonym ‘JC’ – in the physical, digitally distributed and livestreamed courtroom and subsequently through the media sphere, including in newspapers, magazines, podcasts, television and soc…
A public orgy of misogyny: Gender, power, media, and legal spectacle in Depp v Heard
Possibly no other media event has given rise to the widespread ridiculing of domestic violence as the livestreaming of Johnny Depp’s defamation action against his former wife Amber Heard. This article analyses the social media commentary surrounding a Tik Tok released by the Milani cosmetic company, which used the attacks on Heard as an advertising opportunity. The paper contextualises Milani’s intervention in the case within the wider social med…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works) · Creativity (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)