Dr Susan Yell - Researcher Profile

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Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Biography

Susan works in the School of Applied Media & Social Sciences, Gippsland at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer.

Susan gained her PhD (in systemic-functional linguistics and social semiotics) from the University of Sydney in 1994. She taught for four years at Sydney University before taking up a lectureship at Central Queensland University in 1991, moving to Monash in late 1999. She has published a co-authored book with Tony Schirato (Communication and Cultural Literacies, Allen & Unwin/Sage, 2000) and a number of research articles on media and communication technologies, literacies and practices. From 1997 to 2007 she edited the annual special issue of the A-ranked media and cultural studies journal Southern Review: Communication, Politics, Culture.

Research & Supervision Interests

    Susan is a communications and media scholar with an interest in various forms of communication/cultural literacies. She brings a background in social semiotics and discourse analysis to a range of research topics including the relation between discourse and affect, email and electronic messaging practices, communication technologies and literacies, media and the public sphere.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Books

Schirato, T., Yell, S.M., 2000, Communication and Cultural Literacy, Allen & Unwin, St.Leonards NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Yell, S.M., 2005, Critical discourse analysis and social semiotics: re-thinking text and discourse in media and communication research, in Topical Issues in Communications and Media Research, eds Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, Nova Science Publishers, New York USA, pp. 9-23.

Journal Articles

Yell, S.M., 2012, Natural disaster news and communities of feeling:the affective interpellation of local and global publics, Social Semiotics [P], vol 22, issue 4, Routledge, London UK, pp. 409-428.

Yell, S., Fletcher, M., 2011, Airgraphs and an airman the role of airgraphs in World War II family correspndence, History Australia-Journal of the Australian Historical Association [P], vol 8, issue 3, Monash University ePress, Melbourne, pp. 117-138.

Yell, S., 2010, 'Breakfast is now tea, toast and tissues': affect and the media coverage of bushfires, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources[P], vol 137, issue November 2010, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 109-119.

Atkinson, P., Cooper, S.K., Yell, S.M., 2007, Editorial: 'question time' - modalities of knowledge in an information culture, Southern Review, vol 40, issue 2, RMIT Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Yell, S.M., 2007, Theorizing text as practice in the new media age, New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, vol 10, issue 1, School of English and Media, Massey University, New Zealand, pp. 14-23.

Atkinson, P., Yell, S.M., 2006, Affect, time and the enunciative body, Southern Review, vol 38, issue 2, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 40-57.

Yell, S.M., 2006, Editorial: communication, meaning, affect, Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture - Affective Communication/Communicating Affect, vol 38, issue 2, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-8.

Yell, S.M., 2003, New for old?: Converging media and e-mail practices in the workplace, Australian Journal of Communication, vol 30, issue 1, University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 93-108.

Yell, S.M., 2003, The unruly space of email, Southern Review, vol 36, issue 2, School of Applied Communications, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 52-67.

Yell, S., 2001, Email and public debate in Universities, Southern Review, vol 34, issue 1, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 22-31.

Yell, S., Schirato, T., Bright, P., 2000, Communication Meta-Literacies and Tertiary Graduates, Australian Journal of Communication, vol 27 issue 2, School of Comm and the Comm Centre, QUT, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 99-110.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Constructing a communicative community through the language of popular fiction.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Intelligent agents and creative process.
Supervisors:
Atkinson, P (Main), Yell, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Making waves? A rhetorical analysis of Australian asbestos activist discourse from 1980.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Lindgren, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Gendered Campaign: Women, Policy and Process in Australian Political Journalism, 1901-2010.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), North, L (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Baker, A.
Program of Study:
Youths and net-radio, exploring subcultural models of audiences. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Cooper, S (Main), Yell, S (Associate).
Student:
Gabriel, F.
Program of Study:
Ambivalence and excess: a deconstructive reading of the discursive limits of youth. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).
Student:
Galloway, C.
Program of Study:
Developing risk-literate public relations. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Atkinson, P (Main), Kwansah-Aidoo, K (Associate), Yell, S (Associate).
Student:
Mullins, K.
Program of Study:
Wits, tricks and common sense: Angela Carter's politics of character. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Griffiths, O (Joint), Yell, S (Joint-Co).
Student:
Omar, B.
Program of Study:
Investigating the roles of medium, motivation and information processing in the process of learning from news: the case of print and online newspapers. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Murphy, P (Main), Yell, S (Associate).
Student:
Walker, L.
Program of Study:
(In)forming the choices of self-governing audiences: Australian film classification policy 2000-2010. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Atkinson, P (Associate).
Student:
Willems, J.
Program of Study:
Does style matter? Considering the impact of learning styles in e-learning. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Murphy, P (Associate).