Marsha Berry
Senior Lecturer
Media and Communication
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Marsha Berry is Program Manager for BA (Creative Writing). She is co-editor of the book, Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014). She is also a writer and artist.Marsha is an active member of RMIT’s research community. Marsha’s research trajectory started in humanities with a focus on ethnography, ethnomethodology, language and performance studies. She has applied and extended her background in ethnography and post-structural critical discourse analysis to the emerging field of digital media. She has numerous academic journal and conference publications in digital media and creative practice. She has also been integral to or led teams that have won national and international competitive research grants. Her creative practice includes photography, video art and poetry. Since 2007, she has explored the connections between technology, memory, place and displacement in her practice. She has exhibited her video art and images nationally and internationally. Her poetry has been published in Indian and American literary journals.
Research Interest
Narrative and cultural studies
Publications
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 Out in the open: locating new vernacular practices with smartphone cameras
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 Pinning poetry to place: Making sense of place in the PilbaraÂ
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Constellations and connections: the playful space of the creative practice research degree
