Staff profile

Dr David Azul

Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Human Communication Sciences

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BSc (University of Aachen, Germany), MSc (University of Aachen, Germany), PhD (La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

Speech Pathology Australia, World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Area of study

Speech Pathology

Research interests

Gender and health

- "cissexual", "intersex", "transgender", "genderqueer" communication

Speech Pathology

- transdisciplinary, conceptual and creative approaches to research in human communication

Teaching Units

HCS4ACS Assessment of Communication and Swallowing

HLT1CSS Contemporary Issues in Sex and Sexuality

Recent Publications

  • ‘How do voices become gendered? A critical examination of everyday and medical constructions of the relationship between voice, sex and gender identity’, in M. AhKing & A. Lee (Eds.), Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology, forthcoming 2012.
  • ‘Gramophony of an “Application for Recognition of a Condition of Permanent Desire”: A Performative Exploration of the Relationship between Notions of Subject, Voice and Writing”, Qualitative Research Journal, 11 (1), 2011.
  • ‘Phononostalgia: A Fictocritical Investigation into Discordant Notions of “Voice” in Speech and Writing’, TEXT, 15 (1), 2011.
  • ‘My Vibrant Voice Story. Fictocritical Fragments in Audio and Writing’, Creative Approaches to Research, 2(2), 2009.
  • ‘The Show with the Voice: An [Au]/-[o]-tophonographic Parody’, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2), Art. 27, 2008.
  • ‘Die Show mit der Stimme: Eine [Au]/-[o]-tophonographische Parodie’. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research e-journal, 9(2), Art. 27, 2008.
  • (with Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube and Dominik Groß): ‘Modelle zur Definition von Transsexualität und ihre Auswirkungen auf die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz - Das Beispiel Stimme und Sprechverhalten’, in D. Groß, S. Müller, & J. Steinmetzer (Eds.), Normal - anders - krank? Akzeptanz, Stigmatisierung und Pathologisierung im Kontext der Medizin (pp. 171-194), Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008.
  • ‘DJ Parasite: An [Au]/[o]-tophonographic Soundtrack’, Liminalities, 3 (3), 2007.
  • (with Malte Kob, Klaus Willmes and Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube): ‘Do We Need Voice Therapy for Female-To-Male Transgenders?’, in B. E. Murdoch, J. Goozee, B. – M. Whelan, K. Docking (Eds.), 2004 IALP- Congress-Proceedings, Brisbane: Speech Pathology Australia, 2004.
  • (with Malte Kob and Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube): ‘Zur stimmlichen Situation von sogenannten Frau-zu-Mann-Transsexuellen: Selbstwahrnehmung, Fremdwahrnehmung und akustische Daten zur Geschlechtsdarstellung’, in M. Gross & E. Kruse (Eds.), Aktuelle phoniatrisch-pädadiologische Aspekte 2003/2004 (pp. 172 – 177), Niebüll: Verlag videel, 2003.