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.
Journal Article: Art rocks: atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space
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
Book: My Future Town
Natalie Collie, Karen Hollands and Isobelle Carmody eds. (2023). My Future Town. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland (in collaboration with Western Downs Regional Council).
Conference Publication: My future town: imagining the future of the regions
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.
Doing Digital Humanities - Expanding AusArts @ AustLit functionality for program level change
(2016–2018) UQ Teaching Innovation Grants
Writing the Speculative Fiction Series
Doctor Philosophy
Collaborative documentary photography: a relational and visual mode
Doctor Philosophy
(2022) Doctor Philosophy
Natalie Collie, Karen Hollands and Isobelle Carmody eds. (2023). My Future Town. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland (in collaboration with Western Downs Regional Council).
Playing with TikTok: algorithmic culture and the future of creative work
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
New media challenges to the theory and practice of communication engagement
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
Art rocks: atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space
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
The droning of intimacy: bodies, data, and sensory devices
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
Walking in the city: urban space, stories, and gender
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.
Cities of the imagination: science fiction, urban space, and community engagement in urban planning
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
My future town: imagining the future of the regions
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.
Exploring Cirrus: a digital learning platform for engaged reading, analysis, and writing
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.
Exploring the construction of 'national unity' in Malaysia: Framing analysis of texts and audiences
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
Intimate Infrastructures: Measuring sentiment from the inside out
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.
Intimate infrastructures: Data and desire in the digital bedroom
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.
Intimate surveillance: Probing users from the inside out
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.
A writing architecture: Science fiction and the urban imaginary
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.
Constructing “national unity”: A framing analysis of Malaysian government advertising
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). Gothic urban futures. The Popular Gothic, Popular Culture Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, 5 February 2015.
Monstrous cities in gothic science fiction
Collie, Natalie (2015). Monstrous cities in gothic science fiction. Gothic Spaces: Boundaries, Mergence, Liminalities (GAANZA 2015), Sydney, Australia, 21-22 January 2015.
Doing Digital Humanities - Expanding AusArts @ AustLit functionality for program level change
(2016–2018) UQ Teaching Innovation Grants
Writing the Speculative Fiction Series
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Collaborative documentary photography: a relational and visual mode
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Portraying Hong Kong identity beyond the limits of the literary label 'Asian-Australian'
Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Queering Dark Academia within a New Adult Context
Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Sound as a material of the past
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Tell Me Everything In The Whole World: Modern Gothic Literature, Non-Linear Mnemonic Time as a Lens to Explore Women's Lives
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Metamorphosis: Where Fact Becomes Fiction
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
The untold story of Australian farming women, social media and climate change
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Distant Poets, Instant Presence: Understanding the Role of Digital Culture in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Wasted: Alcohol, shame and book publicity
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Timefield: science fiction and the neuroscience of reading
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The Visitor: Writing the Domestic Uncanny in 21st-Century Australian Literature
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
'Close to the Bones' (book 1 in the Cretin Park Chronicles), and critical essay 'Nature and Apocalypse in Young Adult Fiction: Promoting an Ecocentric Ethic'
(2020) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Fem-punk Futures: Posthumanism, Gender, and Identity in Contemporary Women¿s Science Fiction
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
'The Republic of Birds' and 'Fantastic Cartography: The fantasy map and the portal-quest fantasy'
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Displaced Pieces: The Equivocation of the Real and the Imaginary in Literary Fantasy
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Cities of Struggle: Victorian Gothic and the Hardboiled Pulps in Secondary World Urban Fantasy
(2016) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Fantastic writing: writing the fantastic into the everyday
(2016) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Mareeba Airfield and the Southwest Pacific War 1942-1943
(2016) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor