Prof. Kerry Mallan
Kerry Mallan is a Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, QUT. Her research interests include children’s literature, youth and new media, and narrative, with particular attention to feminist and queer theories and the relationship between youth and popular culture. Kerry has published extensively across literary studies, education, new technologies and popular culture. Her most recent book is Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction (2009, Palgrave). She is currently a chief investigator on three ARC grants: an ARC Linkage grant ‘Remembering the past, Imagining the Future: Embedding narrative and new media in urban planning’; an ARC LIEF: ‘AustLit Phase Three: Transforming the study of Australian Literature through a collaborative e-Research environment’ where she leads the Australian Children’s Literature Digitisation Resources Project; and firts CI on an ARC Discovery grant, ‘Growing up in networked spaces’. In addition to her research and publications, Kerry is editor of the ‘A’ ranked journal Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature and series editor with Palgrave Macmillan for a new cross-disciplinary list entitled ‘Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature’.
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