Rate My Professor Michelle Duffy

Duffy's research specializes in cultural geography (50%), rural and regional geography (30%), and recreation, leisure, and tourism geography (20%), with key interests in affect, community, embodiment, emotion, festivals, mobilities, qualitative methodologies, resilience, social cohesion, social justice, and sound. Her participatory work advances understandings of entanglements between human and more-than-human worlds through emotion, affect, sound, and movement, particularly in rural and regional contexts undergoing social and environmental changes. She investigates the role of public events in fostering community development and resilience, utilizing sound-based and more-than-representational methodologies. Duffy has authored influential books such as Sounding Places: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music (2019), Festival Encounters: Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events (2018, with J. Mair), Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges (2020), Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture (2009, with R. Bandt), and Music of Place: Community Identity in Contemporary Australian Music Festivals (2009). Her highly cited journal articles include 'The Art of Doing (Geographies of) Music' (2007, Environment & Planning D: Society & Space, 294 citations), 'Bodily Rhythms: Corporeal Capacities to Engage with Festival Spaces' (2011, Emotion, Space and Society, 255 citations), 'Performing Identity within a Multicultural Framework' (2005, Social and Cultural Geography, 246 citations), and recent contributions like 'Eco-anxiety among Regional Australian Youth with Mental Health Problems: A Qualitative Study' (2024). These works underscore her impact on sensory geographies, place-making, and community wellbeing.