Dr Ariella Van Luyn
Lecturer , creative writing - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Phone: +61 02 6773 1879
Mobile: 0401925228
Email: avanluyn@une.edu.au (For enquiries about teaching, research, supervision and examination)
Secondary Email: hdr-hass@une.edu.au (For enquiries about undertaking higher degree research in the School of HASS)
Twitter: @ariellavl
Biography
Ariella Van Luyn is a lecturer in writing at the University of New England, where she specialises in creative writing pedagogy and practice-led research. She is the Higher Degree Research Coordinator for the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Ariella holds a PhD in creative writing from the Queensland University of Technology. She is the author of a novel, Treading Air, and over ten short stories published Australian and international journals including Overland, Southerly, Voiceworks and The Lifted Brow. She has co-edited two scholarly books, Sharing qualitative research: Showing lived experiences and community narratives with Professor Susan Gair and Innovating Through Place: On Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity in Australia and Beyond with Dr Eduardo de la Fuente. She has published extensive research on historical fiction and biofiction, practice-led research methodology, online writing pedagogy, and oral and community narratives. She is experienced in the supervision of higher degree research students and has been invited to examine creative writing theses in Australia and overseas.
Qualifications
PhD
Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing) (Hons Class 1)
Awards
Teaching Areas
Editing Skills
Writing Short Fiction
Writing Creative Nonfiction
Creative Industries
Practice-led Research Methodologies
Primary Research Area/s
Creative writing; Practice-led research; Online writing pedagogy; Historical fictionResearch Interests
2018 Australia Council for the Arts Grant—Individual artist
2016 Townsville City Council T150 Grant, Townsville’s Pioneering Road: Storytelling in the Virtual Museum
Research Supervision Experience
PhD
Primary advisor: Nicole Crowe, No woman is an island: Humour, Ethics and Identity in the Australian Regional Family Memoir
Primary advisor: Gillian Long, Shadows in the Cane: An Exploration of the Redressal Capacities of Historical Fiction to Depict Labour Unrest in the Cane Fields of Far North Queensland 1930s
Primary advisor: Louise Henry, Bones and Shadows: Navigating the ethics of recovering women’s stories using imagination, memory and oral histories
Secondary advisor: Helen Ramoutsaki, Wet: An Appetite for the Tropics- Evoking Connections with the Wet Tropics Environment through Poetry in Live Performance
Honours
Eliza Bird, Unravelling the Mystique of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A Practice-led Research Approach
Lucy Bonano (Jt, Anthro.), Narratives of Place: The Value of Oral History in Understanding the Personal Significance of Landscapes
Therese Evert, Carpentaria: Speaking Back Through Style
Publications
Novel
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2016. Treading Air. Melbourne: Affirm Press.
Short Stories
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2018. ‘A Scree of Lantana.’ Island 152 https://islandmag.com/shop/island-152
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2015. ‘Bulldozer.’ Spineless Wonders Michael McGirr Selects Series http://spinelesswonders.tomely.com/bulldozer
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2015. ‘Burning the Green.’ Winner, Townsville City Council Short Story Competition. Tincture 11 http://tincture-journal.com/2015/10/21/burning-the-green-by-ariella-van-luyn/
Van Luyn, Ariella.2014. ‘St Helena.’ Southerly
74 (3) http://southerlyjournal.com.au/2015/02/19/australian-dreams-2/
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2014. ‘The Cunning Folk.’ Overland. Summer fiction edition. https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-216-5-summer-fiction/fiction-ariella-van-luyn/
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2011. ‘Crocodile Hunt.’ M/C Journal, 14 (3) http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/402.
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2010. ‘Evelyn on the Verandah.’ One Book Many Brisbanes Short Story Anthology. Brisbane: Brisbane City Council. https://tinyurl.com/y96aqe4m.
Van Luyn, Ariella.2010. Hole. Voiceworks
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2010. Peru. The Lifted Brow
Edited scholarly books
de la Fuente, Eduardo and Van Luyn, Ariella. (Eds). 2019. Innovating Through Place: On Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity in Australia and Beyond. Routledge.
Gair, Susan and Van Luyn, Ariella. (Eds). 2017. Sharing qualitative research: Showing lived experiences and community narratives. Routledge.
Peer-reviewed papers
Wise, Beck and Van Luyn, Ariella 2020 ‘Not “all writing is creative writing” and that’s OK: inter/disciplinary collaboration in writing and writing studies’, in A Philp, E Jeffery & L McGowan (eds) Creating communities: Collaboration in creative writing and research, TEXT Special Issue Number 59, TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses 24, 2 (October): http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue59/Wise&VanLuyn.pdf
Wise, Beck, Van Luyn, Ariella and Cantrell, Kate. 2020. “Not-so-invisible mending: Developing editing skills in large online classes through visible labour. Research in Online Literacy Education. 3(1). http://www.roleolor.org/ldquonot-so-invisible-mendingrdquo-developing-editing-skills-in-large-online-classes-through-visible-labour.html
Van Luyn, Ariella and Glade-Wright, Robyn. 2018. ‘Changing tertiary landscapes for the artist-academic: towards a framework for nurturing creative arts research beyond the PhD.’ TEXT. 51(1). http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue51/VanLuyn&GladeWright.pdf
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2018. ‘(In)famous subjects: Representing Women’s Criminality and Violence in Historical Biofictions.’ New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing .https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14790726.2018.1439510
Van Luyn, Ariella, Carter, Margaret, & M'Balla-Ndi, Marie. 2016. Using student videos of fictional scenarios in the prevention of cyberbullying in higher education settings. Journal of Applied Youth Studies,1 (3) http://cayr.info/jays-v-1-n-2/
Barnett, Adam; Abrantes, Katya; Baker, Ronald; Diedrich, Amy; Farr, Marina; Kuilboer, Alf; Mahony, Tracey; McLeod, Ian; Moscardo, Gianna; Prideaux, Murray; Stoeckl, Natalie; van Luyn, Ariella; Sheaves, Marcus. 2015. Sportfisheries, Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Developing Best Practice. Fish and Fisheries. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12140
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2013. ‘Artful Life Stories: Enriching Creative Practice Through Oral History.’ TEXT 17(1). http://www.textjournal.com.au/april13/vanluyn.htm.
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2012. ‘Jogging Alongside or Bumping Off? Oral History and Fiction in Dialogue.’ Oral History Association of Australia Journal 34(1): 62-70.
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2011. ‘An Obsession with Storytelling: Conducting Oral History Interviews for Creative Writing.’ Ejournalist 11(1) http://ejournalist.com.au/index.php
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2010. ‘Fictionalising Oral History: Narrative Analysis, Voice and Identity.’ Oral History Association of Australia Journal 32(1): 68-74.
Scholarly book chapters
Van Luyn, Ariella, Gair, Susan, and Saunders, Vicki. 2017. ‘“Transcending the limits of logic”: Poetic Inquiry as a qualitative research method for working with vulnerable communities.’ In Gair, S., and Van Luyn, A (Eds.). Sharing qualitative research: Showing lived experiences and community narratives. Routledge.
Van Luyn, Ariella. 2017. ‘Sharing place-based stories using digital tools: Locative literature and regional writing communities.’ In Gair, S., and Van Luyn, A (Eds.). Sharing qualitative research: Showing lived experiences and community narratives. Routledge.
Klaebe, Helen and Ariella Van Luyn. 2015. ‘In the wake of Cyclone Yasi: Facilitating community driven narrative projects.’ In Knowledge in Action: university-community engagement in Australia. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp. 132-150.
Van Luyn, Ariella and Helen Klaebe. 2014. ‘Making stories matter: Using participatory new media storytelling and evaluation to serve marginalised and regional communities.’ In Janet McDonald and Robert Mason (eds), Creative Communities: Regional Inclusion and the Arts. Bristol: Intellect Press.
Memberships
Adjunct lecturer in writing, James Cook University
Australian Society of Authors
Australasian Association of Writers Programs
New England Writers Centre
