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Daniel

Carrigy

Position: Senior Lecturer
Affiliations: School of Arts & Business; Scripture, Spirituality & Society Research Centre →

Biography

Career

Projects & Grants

Supervision

Outputs

Daniel Carrigy is Senior Lecturer in Modern History and English at Avondale University, where he also serves as the Course Convenor for the Bachelor of Arts degree. A passionate educator, Daniel has been awarded for his outstanding contributions to student learning.

Daniel's research expertise primarily sits in the field of American Studies. He is particularly invested in explorations of American identity, nationalism, and imperialism, both in history and literary studies. As such, much of his work revolves around the history of the American frontier, as well as its representation in contemporary literature, film, and television. He has also conducted research across a number of additional areas, including the American Revolution, the post-war American novel, video game studies, and detective fiction.


Awards & achievements

2023
Teaching with Excellence Award - Nominee
Alphacrucis University College
2023
Excellence in Learning and Teaching: Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - Winner
Alphacrucis University College

Professional associations

Western Historical Association
Member
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
Member
Australian Historical Assocation
Member
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Member

Expertise

  • American Exceptionalism and Nationalism
  • History of the American West
  • Literary, filmic, and televisual representations of the American West and Frontier
  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American History
  • Video Game Studies
  • Detective Fiction

Education

Bachelor of Arts with the Diploma of Education
Macquarie University
Master of Research
Macquarie University
PhD
Macquarie University
Analysis of the ideology of Manifest Destiny in modern American literature, film, and television.
Role:
Researcher
Funding Type:
Avondale grant
Examination of the social underpinnings of the Mad Max franchise, with particular attention paid to Australian history and spirituality.
Role:
Researcher
Funding Type:
Avondale grant
Analysis of how Generative AI can and has been utilised by History educators to improve their teaching, curriculum development, and assessment design.
Role:
researcher
Funding Type:
Avondale grant

Supervision

Daniel is available for HDR supervision for both the Masters of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. He is particuarly interested in topics that explore American history, American literature, film/television, as well as imperialism/empire, and nineteenth century Australian history.

Year Level Research Title Institution Supervisor Type
Current PhD

The effects of battle-related trauma upon WWI Australian Imperial Force Front Line Chaplains

Avondale University

Co-Supervisor


Journal articles

  • 2025
    Carrigy, D. (2025). Walker Percy’s pilgrim: The Moviegoer, identity, and the American landscape. Christianity and Literature 74, vol. 3: 364-385.
  • 2025
    (Review) Dragotta, Nick and Hickman, Johnathan. East of West, The Apocalypse: Year One, Image Comics, 2015. Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media 1 (1), 164-171.
  • 2025
    Carrigy, D. (2025, May 29). Ruling rebels: How the Sons of Liberty Became Colonial Powerbrokers. Journal of the American Revolution.
  • 2025
    Carrigy, D. (2025). Manifest deception: Utopic myth and the fifties frontier in L.A. Confidential. Arizona Quarterly, 81(1), 121-144.
  • 2023
    Carrigy, D. (2023). Riddle me this: The Batman (2022) as metaphysical detective fiction. Clues, 41(2), 73–85.
  • 2017
    Carrigy, D., & Twomey, R. (2017). Richard Steele’s female readers and the gender politics of the public sphere in The Spectator. Sydney Studies in English, 43, 71–87.

Chapters

  • 2025
    - Carrigy, Daniel. “Claustrophobic Conformity: Post-War Suburbia in Revolutionary Road” in Narratives of Confinement in American Literature, ed. Firuze Güzel (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), 229-243.

Conference Publications

  • 2026
    Carrigy, D. (2026). ‘Stars, Stripes, and the Southern Cross: The American Revolution and Australia.’ Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, United States.
  • 2026
    Carrigy, D. (2026). ‘Debating Destiny: The Trump Presidencies and the Vocabulary of American Exceptionalism and Empire.’ Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University, Australia.
  • 2024
    Carrigy, D and Rickett, C. ‘Accord’-ing to the students: Perspectives from Avondale University Humanities students on “student success.” HEPP-QN Forum, 2024.
  • 2024
    Carrigy, D. (2024). Look, but Don't Touch!: Adapting the Western in Red Dead Redemption II. Adaptation Symposium, Macquarie University.
  • 2022
    Carrigy, D. (2022). ‘The Western Stranger as Death in Unforgiven, East of West, and Red Dead Redemption.’ Graphic Novel Symposium, University of Sydney, Australia.
  • 2019
    Carrigy, D. (2019). ‘Post-War Pilgrims: Manifest Destiny and the Frontier Pilgrimage in the Post-War American Novel.’ Pilgrimages and Tourism, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • 2019
    Carrigy, D. (2019). ‘Ghosts of Frontier Future: Westworld and the Resiliency of the Frontier in the American Imagination.’ Literature and the Moving Image, Macquarie University, Australia.
  • 2018
    Carrigy, D. (2018). ‘Manifest Desire: Pseudo-Stars and the Fifties Frontier in L.A. Confidential.’ Stars and Screen, Rowan University, United States.
  • 2017
    Carrigy, D. (2017). ‘Mad Men, Manifest Destiny and American Identity’. Camera-Stylo, University of Sydney, Australia
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