Linda Devereux grew up in Africa and Scotland and now lives in Australia where she is the Coordinator of the Academic Language and Learning Unit at UNSW Canberra. Devereux has a Masters in Education. She researches and publishes in the areas of academic literacy development and the provision of support networks for international students. Her doctoral work is an examination of transcultural childhood memory. She is particularly interested in what factors affect how memories are represented and shared both within families and in the public domain. This research has resulted in several papers including, ‘From Congo: newspaper photographs, public images ad personal memories’, which was published in Visual Studies. (http://axonjournal.com.au/issue-2/stuck-between-earth-and-heaven)
