Camilla Nelson

Camilla Nelson is Professor of Politics and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Her research sits at the intersection of media, politics, and feminist theory, with a particular focus on voice and representation, and how they shape political outcomes for marginalised people. She works on questions of consent, violence, law, and silencing, especially as they affect women and children.

Her most recent books, Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts and The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing and Children’s Rights, examine media power, legal authority, and the marginalisation of children and young people, particularly in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence.

Camilla is an EG Whitlam Research Fellow at the Whitlam Institute. A former journalist, she has a Walkley Award for her work at the Sydney Morning Herald. She writes regularly for The Conversation and provides political and media commentary across a wide range of outlets, including ABC television and radio.

Camilla’s work has been supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, and other funding bodies. She has chaired the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards on two occasions, has been short-listed for the Ned Kelly Awards, and selected as one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s best young novelists.

She is currently writing an intellectual biography of the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin for Polity Press and is a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing.