Rate My Professor Erika Kerruish

Dr Erika Kerruish is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University. She serves as Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Education (Primary) and Bachelor of Arts programs and teaches in the Bachelor of Arts. Erika completed her undergraduate studies in philosophy at the Australian National University, earning a BA (Hons), and her doctorate in philosophy at the University of New South Wales.

Erika's research draws on cultural studies and philosophy of technology to analyse digital technologies. She explores questions of perception, affect and criticality and examines sensory, affective and cultural aspects of interactions with digitally driven technologies. Her work includes studies on video art, film, social robotics, multisensory computing, and critical thinking pedagogy. Key publications are 'Arranging sensations: smell and taste in augmented and virtual reality' (The Senses and Society, 2019), 'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' (Anthem Press, 2014), 'Critical thinking in higher education: taking Stiegler’s counsel on the digital milieu' (Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2025), 'Assembling human empathy towards care robots: the human labor of robot sociality' (Emotion, Space and Society, 2021), 'Interpreting feeling: Nietzsche on the emotions and the self' (Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, 2009), 'Postdigital teaching of critical thinking in higher education: Non-instrumentalised sociality and interactivity' (Postdigital Science and Education, 2024), 'Affective touch in social robots' (Transformations, 2017), 'Perception, imagination and affect in human-robot relationships' (Cultural Studies Review, 2016), 'Lessons on telepresence from the Mars explorer Rovers: Merleau-Ponty and the open perceptual circuit' (Culture, Theory and Critique, 2019), and 'Multimodal generative AI: remodelling the sensorium' (The Senses and Society). Erika is a member of research clusters at Southern Cross University.