Daniel Carrigy serves as a Lecturer in Education at Alphacrucis. He is passionate about student support and engagement, with a keen interest in helping future teachers develop strong confidence in syllabi and curriculum. He has previously worked at Macquarie University as a Sessional Lecturer and Unit Convenor in English and Multimedia, as well as at Excelsia College as a Sessional Lecturer in Education. Prior to academia, he was a History and English teacher in the NSW public school system.
His primary area of expertise is in the literary and visual representations of the American frontier, as well as the history of the American West. He is particularly interested in how representations of the American frontier reflect American identity and nationalism. His work has seen him invited to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Rowan University in the United States.
Qualifications
PhD (Candidate) (Macquarie University)
Dissertation Title Chasing the Dawn’s Early Light: Manifest Destiny and American identity from Rabbit, Run to Westworld.
2023
MRes (Macquarie University)
Dissertation Title Gender, Gentry, Petticoats and Propriety: Addison and Steele’s Construction of the Implied Female Reader in The Spectator.
2015
BADipEd (Macquarie University) 2013
Field of Research
Screen and digital media, Historical Studies, Graphics, augmented reality and gamesJournal Article
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2017
- Twomey, R. and Carrigy, D (2017). Richard Steele’s Female Readers and the Gender Politics of the Public Sphere.. Sydney Studies in English, 43 71-87.
Presentations
Academic Conference
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2019
- Ghosts of Frontier Future: Westworld and the Resiliency of the Frontier in the American Imagination (2019), Literature and the Moving Image, Macquarie University, Australia, 01 Jan 2019
- Post-War Pilgrims: Manifest Destiny and the Frontier Pilgrimage in the Post-War American Novel (2019), Pilgrimages and Tourism, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 01 Jan 2019
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2018
- Manifest Desire: Pseudo-Stars and the Fifties Frontier in L.A. Confidential (2018), Stars and Screen, Rowan University, United States, 01 Jan 2018
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2017
- Mad Men, Manifest Destiny and American Identity (2017), Camera-Stylo, University of Sydney, Australia, 01 Jan 2017
- CRS223 Curriculum Studies – History: Part A
- CRS333 Curriculum Studies – History: Part B
- CRS352 Curriculum Studies – Studies of Religion
- CRS413 Curriculum Studies – History: Part A
- CRS513 Curriculum Studies – History: Part B
- CRS532 Curriculum Studies – Studies of Religion
- EDU322 The Self-Reflective Educator
- EDU502 History and Geography
- EDU522 The Self-Reflective Educator
- ENG101 Literature from the Classical period to the 17th Century
- ENG102 17th - 19th Century Literature in English
- ENG201 20th - 21st Century English Literature
- ENG202 Australian Literature and Identity
- ENG301 Literary Criticism and the History of Western Thought
- HIS290 Historical Theory and Method
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