Killian Quigley

Biographic Data

ID460209
NAMEKillian Quigley
GIVEN NAMESKillian
FAMILY NAMEQuigley
SIGNATUREQUIGLEY K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-0628-4046
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A Grotesque and Inhuman World

    Killian QuigleyARTICLEFilm Quarterly2026

    This article attends primarily to an important but little-known corpus of films, produced around the middle of the twentieth century, which document and dramatize the pearling industry of northwest Australia and the Torres Strait. It observes that the settler Australian pearl-film—represented here by Lee Robinson’s The Pearlers (1949) and King of the Coral Sea (1954), and Frank Bagnall’s Pearlers of the Coral Sea (1960)—both relies on the knowled…

  • Introduction: Marine Materialities, Oceanic Humanities, and Eighteenth-Century Seas

    Killian Quigley, Kate Fullagar et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2026

  • Wreck

    Killian QuigleyARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies2025

    The eighteenth century elaborated a prolific phraseology, and poetics, of coastward wreck. Pivotally formative for the novelistic first-person, coastal disasters were above all collective affairs. The period’s many notorious accounts of seaside pillage represent wrecks as coordinating sudden multitudes, and as staging scenes in an endlessly renewing sociolegal drama. The stuff of that drama was often, and increasingly, the mislaid fruit of empire…

  • Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism

    Open AccessJennifer Mae Hamilton, Emily Potter et al.ARTICLETextual Practice2025Cited by: 1

    Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism

  • Concretion

    Open AccessKillian QuigleyARTICLECritical Times2023

    The ruins of wrecked ships are often so thoroughly dispersed by their submarine environments as to practically vanish. Sometimes, however, the conditions of a wreck's submergence create complex modes of material endurance. Concretion, which names both a substance that forms on certain immersed surfaces and the phenomenon of that substance's formation, is one such mode. Inspired by maritime-archeological objects and practices, this article asks ho…

  • Sara A. Rich and Peter B. Campbell, Editors: Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene

    Open AccessKillian QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Maritime Archaeology2023

  • Caring for Colour: Multispecies Aesthetics at the Great Barrier Reef

    Open AccessKillian QuigleyARTICLEQueensland Review2021

    The Great Barrier Reef has been bleaching yet again. If the Anthropocene had a colour table, bleached coral would hold an especially recognizable place within it. By some lights, chromatic behaviour — and chromatic disaster — are best apprehended as secondary qualities, as spectacles that offer to point the discerning observer beyond the tokens of human sense and toward an object’s (or ecosystem’s) essential properties. This article asks whether …

  • Fathom

    Open AccessPratt, Susanne Pratt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Humanities2020

    marine ecologist, a poet, a dancer, and a swimmer. (If the math does not add up, we remind you that we are always more than one.) Our insights emerged from a one

  • Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean

    Killian QuigleyARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2019

  • Telling Environmental Histories: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment

    Killian QuigleyARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2018Cited by: 1

    Environmental history that neglects vernacular witnessing registers a significantly inadequate sense of place. Oral history that fails to listen beyond the human for voices, sounds, and stories haz

  • Indolence and Illness: Scurvy, the Irish, and Early Australia

    Killian QuigleyARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2017

    Irish men and women made up more than a quarter of the approximately one hundred and sixty thousand convicts transported from the British Isles to Australia in the period 1787-1868. They feature, in major accounts of early New South Wales, as irredeemably shiftless, and prone to escapism. And in the medical literature of convict transportation, this characterization sometimes intersects with another, specifically pathological, impression: the Iri…