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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Supervision, ANU.
2015 CASS Award for Excellence in Supervision, College of Arts and Social Sciences.
2011 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Excellence Cluster, Institute for Advanced Studies, Konstanz University.
2006 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, Cambridge Univ.
2006 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Clare Hall, Cambridge.
1989-90 Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Instructor of Literature, Duke University.
1988-89 Fuller-Perdue Fellowship, Duke Law School.
1984-85 Fulbright Fellowship, Cambridge University.
Qualifications
PhD Duke University
Research Interests
Trauma, memory and witnessing in Australia and transnational contexts; Holocaust
studies; Stolen Generations; life-writing studies; feminist theory; cultural theory; literary
theory; 19th and 20th century novel; women writers; law and literature; gender and
modernity.
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Collective Testimonial Activism: Teach Us Consent and the Activation of Survivor Voices in the Digital Era
Monteith, E. A. & Kennedy, R., 12 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Credibility Lessons: Gender, Justice and Believability in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
Gilmore, L. & Kennedy, R., Sept 2025, In: Gender and Justice. 1, 2, p. 229-247 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Decolonial memory activism: grandmothers against removals, After the Apology, and the struggle for self-determination
Kennedy, R., 22 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Interventions. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Feminism/memory/activism: Local movements, transnational solidarities
Kennedy, R. & Young, S., 4 Sept 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Interventions. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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From the Transnational to the Intimate: Multidirectional Memory, the Holocaust, and Colonial Violence in Australia and Beyond
Kennedy, R. & Graefenstein, S., 10 Jan 2025, The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials. Barrett, J., Alba, A. & Moses, A. D. (eds.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 150-178 29 p. (PENNSYLVANIA STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Projects
- 11 Finished
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ANU Hansen Scandinavian Friendship Research Grant 2023
Kennedy, R. (PI)
4/10/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Decolonising Methods in Memory Studies: Global South/Global North Dialogues
Kennedy, R. (PI)
15/01/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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Intersectionality, Sexuality and the Limits of Justice in Feminist #MeToo Discourse
Kennedy, R. (PI)
1/01/19 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
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Memory Activism in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Kent, L. (PI), Black, S. (CoI) & Kennedy, R. (CoI)
3/08/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Research