Emma Whatman
Dr Emma Whatman is an associate lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts where she teaches children’s literature, and gender and sexuality studies. Emma completed her BA (First Class Honours) at Deakin in 2013 and her PhD at Deakin in 2019.
Her PhD research focused on representations of femininity and girlhood in contemporary fairy-tale adaptations for young people. Emma won the prestigious Alfred Deakin Medal for her doctoral thesis and a book based on her doctoral work is under contract with Wayne State University Press.
Emma presents her research regularly at conferences in Australia and internationally and completed a research fellowship at the University of Winnipeg (Canada) in 2015. She has worked on a number of different research projects, including with CRADLE, the Faculty of Health at Deakin, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU in conjunction with ADI at Deakin.
Emma has published a chapter in the book, The evolution and social impact of video game economics (2017) and has three book chapters in the book The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures (2018). She has co-edited a special issue of Hecate with Associate Professor Ann Vickery and Associate Professor Daniel Marshall, and is currently co-editing a special issue of Marvels and Tales on the fairy tale in an Australian context with Dr Michelle Smith from Monash University.
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