Dr Emma Maguire ~ Lecturer, English/Writing
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Emma Maguire is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing and Co-Coordinator of the English Major.
Emma has a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Flinders University (2011), and a PhD in English Literature, also from Flinders University (2016). She is an award winning teacher of English and Creative Writing, and she was the recipient of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence for her PhD thesis, Automedial Girlhoods: Reading Girls' Autobiographical Practice in Digital Contexts.
Her book Girls, Autobiography, Media: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) investigates autobiographical strategies employed by girls and young women in contemporary digital media, and it considers how such self-representations of youthful femininity are received and critiqued.
Emma is an organising member of the International Auto/Biography Association Students and New Scholars network, which she co-founded in 2014 with Maria Faini and Orly Lael Netzer and she is committed to finding new ways to encourage rich intellectual engagement through community building and collaboration.
Emma is also a co-founder of The Hearth Collective, a group of creatives who host regular events in Adelaide to support emerging writers and artists.
She is a member of the Flinders Life Narrative Research Group.
She co-organises the CASE Studies Research Seminar Series.
EL2011: Creative Writing (Level 2; TSV)
EL2014: Life Writing: Narrating Selves and Identities (Level 2; TSV)
EL3013: Reading and Writing the Short Story (Level 3; TSV)
Life writing and Auto/biography theory, selfhood, the construction of the self in media and life narrative
Creative nonfiction, memoir, the personal essay, autobiographical representation, biographical writing
Gender in literature and popular culture
Digital media, automediality, self-branding, and media history
Sexualities, gender and sex-positivity
Creative writing, practice-led research, and creative approaches to the honours and postgraduate thesis
Short stories, literary fiction, genre fiction, prose, narrative and storytelling
Life narrative and creative nonfiction, biography, the personal essay, self-branding
Short stories, flash fiction, the novella, digital writing
Research methodologies in the Humanities
Creative writing practice, practice led research, the craft of writing, publishing strategies for creative writers
2016 - Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
2013 to 2015 - Tutor - English & Creative Writing, Flinders University
Literary Studies (2005)
Arts and Leisure (9501)
Cultural Understanding (9599)
2017 - Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
2015 - Best Student Paper Award for "Home, About, Shop, Contact: Constructing an Authorial Persona via the Author Website," published in M/C (Media/Culture) Journal.
2014 - School of Humanities and Creative Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Part Time Teaching
2013 - Runner Up: 3 Minute Thesis University Final
Australasian Association of Writing Programs
International Auto/Biography Association
Maguire E (2019) Constructing the "Instagirl," deconstructing the self-brand: Amalia Ulman's Instagram hoax. European Journal of Life Writing, 8. pp. 12-32
Kennedy U and Maguire E (2018) The texts and subjects of automediality. M/C Journal, 21 (2).
Cardell K and Maguire E (2015) Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus. Biography, 38 (2). pp. 205-221
Maguire E (2015) Self-branding, hotness, and girlhood in the video blogs of Jenna Marbles. Biography, 38 (1). pp. 72-86
Maguire E (2014) Home, about, shop, contact: constructing an authorial persona via the author website. M/C Journal, 17 (3).
Sheridan S and Maguire E (2014) Relationships to the bush in Nan Chauncy's early novels for children. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14 (3).
Maguire E (2013) Potential: Ariel Schrag contests (hetero-)normative girlhood. Prose Studies, 35 (1). pp. 54-66
Maguire E (2018) Girls, Autobiography, Media: gender and self-mediation in digital economies. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
Maguire E (2019) Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studying undervalued life narrative. In: Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 200-207
Cardell K, Douglas K and Maguire E (2017) 'Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir. In: Mediating Memory: tracing the limits of memoir. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 157-172
Other research outputs
Maguire E (2019) Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping - watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones. The Conversation,
Maguire E (2019) Self-help: Yumi Sakugawa's Instagram account. European Journal of Life Writing, 8.
ResearchOnline@JCU stores 14+ research outputs authored by Dr Emma Maguire from 2013 onwards.
Longing, Loss and Love in Queer Vampire Fiction: A Creative and Critical Approach to Writing Desire (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
Lack and Superfluity: A creative speculation on the psychosocial and gender exigencies of long-term space travel (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
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