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<p><em>Persona Studies</em>, a new open-access journal launched by the Persona Celebrity Publics Research Group at Deakin University (Melbourne), has now released its first issue.
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<p>This is a multi-media interdisciplinary journal designed to investigate the activities of producing, representing, and monitoring public selfhood across time and cultures. It incorporates both critical articles and creative practices.</p>
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<p>Access the issue here: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/issue/view/82</p>
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<p><strong>Vol.1, No. 1 (2015)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Articles</strong></p>
<p>· Introduction: “Making Intellectual Room for Persona Studies: a New Consciousness and a Shifted Perspective” by P. David Marshall and Kim Barbour</p>
<p>· “Louie, Louis: The Fictional, Stage, and Auteur Personas of Louis C.K. in ‘Louie’” by Melanie Piper</p>
<p>· “The Art and Politics of Artists’ Personas: The Case of Yayoi Kusama” by SoJin Lee</p>
<p>· “Assange and WikiLeaks: Secrets, Personae and the Ethopoetics of Digital Leaking” by Andrew Munro</p>
<p>· “Learning to Circumvent the Limitations of the Written-Self: The Rhetorical Benefits of Poetic Fragmentation and Internet ‘Catfishing’” by Meghan Punschke Nolan</p>
<p>· “The Carer Persona: Masking Individual Identities” by Timothy R. Broady</p>
<p>· “Forming Persona through Metrics: Can we think freely in the shadow of our data?”</p>
<p><strong>Creative Practice</strong></p>
<p>· Introduction: “When are you most like yourself?” by Glenn D’Cruz</p>
<p>· “Crying” by Eugenia Lim</p>
<p>· “Occupy Conversations – Talking Portraits (2013/15)” by Cameron Bishop</p>
<p>· “Love Me,” “Self Portrait 1-3,” and “Self Portrait” by John Graham</p>
<p>· “Gaze 1,” “Gaze 2,” and “Gaze 3: by Shelley Hannigan</p>
<p>· “I Me Mine: Artistic Self/Artistic Persona” by Glenn D’Cruz​<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Dr. Kim Barbour</div>
<div class="PlainText">Persona Celebrity Publics Research Group</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Deakin University Burwood Australia.<br>
Email: kim.barbour@deakin.edu.au<br>
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