Dr. Angela Molloy Murphy was an early childhood educator of 25 years when she joined the University of Melbourne as an Early Childhood Lecturer. During her doctoral program, she acted as the coordinator for the Inventing ReMida Portland Project (IRPP), a cultural and educational project at Portland State University’s Helen Gordon Child Development Center inspired by the ReMida Reggio Creative Recycle Center in Italy. This period was transformational for her conceptualisation of the role of materials in early childhood spaces.

Angela’s postqualitative dissertation, Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children’s Storytelling, was a posthumanist, feminist new materialist study of children’s storying with place and the more-than-human.

Her recent research includes a participatory, arts-based inquiry of children’s complex and storied relations with place and the more-than-human on the stolen lands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Tumwater, and Chinook peoples in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Angela is a scholar in residence at The University of Melbourne’s SWISP Lab (Speculative Wanderings with Space and Place), a community of interdisciplinary activist-practitioners who seek to compose reparative futures in the midst of climate collapse.