Rate My Professor David Moody

Dr. David Moody is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Drama and Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he has contributed significantly to teaching and research supervision over many years. Renowned for his compassionate and empathetic teaching style, he ensures students feel valued and supported, fostering creativity and accommodating individual paces of learning. Moody teaches key units including EGL231 Poetry, EGL106 Drama, Theatre and Performance from 2019, and EGL349 Advanced Studies in Theatre and Performance from 2017. In November 2019, he hosted an engaging book launch and discussion event at Murdoch University’s Launchpad with alumni authors Bindy Pritchard (BA 1989) and Emily Paull (BA Hons 2013), exploring the writing process and creative careers. That same year, he was honoured alongside colleagues such as Michael Calver at the university's staff awards ceremony, recognizing his long-standing contributions.

David Moody maintains an extensive record of supervising postgraduate research within the School of Arts, guiding students through diverse and innovative projects in literature, performance, and theatre studies. Notable supervisions include YC Chua's PhD 'Performing the self: An insight into the formation of self as dancer' (2014), C Kelso-Marsh's Honours thesis 'It's Chinatown: Orientalist discourse and the city in the noir tradition' (2015), E Greenham's PhD 'Neocosmicism: God and the void' (2013), S Merlo's PhD 'Narrative, story, intersubjectivity: Formulating a continuum model of narrative for creative practice' (2014), S Krishnan's PhD 'Beyond the architecture of sensing: An investigation into synaesthesia' (2015), JM Prendergast's PhD 'Mapping feminism in Shakespeare's Hamlet: I Hamlet' (1999), AM Nissen's PhD 'The metanarrative paradigm' (2017), and contributions to S Tampalini's drama 'Entropy concerto: A true story' (1990) at Murdoch University Theatre. His creative output includes the poetry collection Ordinary Euphoria: Poems (2016), affiliated with the School of Arts. Moody has also published scholarly work such as 'Peter Brook's Heart of Light: Primitivism and intercultural theatre' in New Theatre Quarterly (1995), reflecting his expertise in theatre theory and performance.