"Locating the Lost Transgender Child: Reading Anti-Trans Australian Literature"

Organisation: The  Association for the Study of Australian Literature and the International Auto/Biography Association, Asia-Pacific

Location: Flinders University, Adelaide and Online, 1-4 July 2025

Featured image:  Book cover of  Devastated: ​H ow Gender Ideology is Tearing Australian Families Apart (2024)

“Double Feature: Re-Viewing Crip and Trans Representation in Horror and Thriller Cinema”

Organisation: Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network (Deakin)

Location: Deakin University, Online, 11-12 November 2021 

Research Co-Presented with Dylan Holdsworth (Deakin University)

Featured image: Film poster for Kanchana: Muni 2 (2011)

“Not a Happy Camper: Re-Viewing the Dynamic Between Mental Illness and Transgender Subjectivity in the 1980s Teen Slasher Film Sleepaway Camp”

Organisation: The Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association and the Australian Queer Archives

Location: Deakin University, Melbourne, 22-24 November 2018

Research Co-Presented with Dylan Holdsworth (Deakin University)

Featured image: Blu-Ray Cover of  Sleepaway Camp (1983)

“‘You! A Bloke?’: Reading the Interplay Between Australian Identity and Transgender Masculinity in Young Adult Fiction”

Organisation: Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Location: UNSW, Canberra, 6-9 July 2016

Also presented at:

Organisation: Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research

Location: Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 13-15 July 2016

Featured image: Book cover of  F2M: The Boy Within (2010)

“Graphic Difference: Policing and Politicising Gender Diversity in Young Adult Graphic Novels”

Event: A Symposium on Gender: Old and New Theories and Practices of Gender

Organisation: Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network

Location: Deakin University, Melbourne, 26 November 2015

Featured image: Book cover of  A+E 4Ever (2011)

“‘The Pain Came From Inside, Deep and Deadly’: Affect, Transition, and Imag(in)ing Trans Subjectivity in Cris Beam’s I Am J”

Organisation: Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research

Location: Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, 30 June-2 July 2014

Featured image: Book cover of  I Am J (2011)

“How Unique!: Glee’s Transgender Politics”

Organisation: International Research Society for Children’s Literature

Location: Maastricht University, Maastricht, 10-14 August 2013

Featured image: DVD cover of  Glee season 1 (2009)

“An Appropriate Body (of Knowledge): (Un)queering the Transsexual in Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica”

Organisation: Deakin University, Monash University, and Melbourne University,

Location: Deakin University, Melbourne, 26-27 November 2012

Also presented at:

Organisation: Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association

Location:  University of New South Wales, 21-23 November 2012

Featured image: Film poster for  Transamerica (2005) 

“Transgender Representation in Contemporary Literature and Film”

Event: Deakin University Student Association’s Postgraduate Conference

Organisation: Deakin University Student Association

Location: Deakin University, Burwood, 20 October 2012

Featured image: Book cover of  Sacred Country (1992)

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