Rate My Professor Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell (he/they) is a lecturer in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. A Wodi Wodi/Wandandian (Tharawal/Dharawal) descendant from the Jerrinja Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW, Farrell's academic background encompasses a Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies from Macquarie University, awarded on 22 October 2022 for the thesis Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ Communities Online. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Indigenous Studies, as well as a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Creative Arts majoring in Indigenous Studies and Visual Arts. These qualifications underpin his career as an Indigenous scholar focused on critical issues in Indigenous studies.

Farrell's multidisciplinary research specializes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+SB gender and sexualities, social media and online studies, and drag. His key publications include the reflective piece A love letter to drag in AlterNative (2024); book chapters Digital Indigiqueers: locating queer mob in the literature and Reflections on Indigenous LGBTIQ+ communities online in The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures (2024); Connecting back home: globalising conversations on Indigenous LGBTIQ+ peoples, migration and social media in Global Networks of Indigeneity: Peoples, Sovereignty and Futures (2023); and co-authorship of the Envisioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI Futures Communique in Journal of Global Indigeneity (2025). With a total of 14 research outputs spanning 2016 to 2025, including 7 chapters and 5 articles, he is affiliated with Macquarie University's Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre. Farrell contributes to the field through his role on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Indigeneity and by convening units such as ABSX1000 – Introducing Indigenous Australia and ABST2035 – Indigenous Queer Studies.