Allison Craven
- allison.craven@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7245-7734- Associate Professor
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Biography
Allison Craven lectures in English and Screen Studies. Her primary research interests are in: fairy tale and gothic narrative; film and cinema in Australia; intermediality of theatre and cinema; second wave feminisms. She teaches courses in Gothic Fiction, and Children's Literature, and she coordinates the first-year Arts core subject, Time, Truth and the Human Condition (see 'Teaching')
Edited Collections
Balanzategui, J and A Craven, eds. 2023 Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Amsterdam University Press.
Craven, A and D Sandars, eds. [Forthcoming 2024]. Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters. Routledge.
Monographs
Craven, A. 2017. Fairy Tale Interrupted: Feminisms, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema. Peter Lang.
Craven, A. 2016. Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies. Anthem.
Selected Recent Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Craven, A. (Forthcoming). 'Margery's Miscellany, or What "All the world must allow": Children's Citizenship, Goody Two-Shoes, and the Fairy-Tale Public Sphere.' In Just Wonder: Shifting Perspectives in Tradition, eds Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme. Utah State UP.
Craven, A. (Forthcoming 2024). 'Vampire Hydrology and Coastal Australian Cinema: Saturation, Sunlight and Amphibious Beings.' In Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters, eds. Allison Craven and Diana Sandars (166-185). Routledge.
Craven, A. (2023). 'An (Un)Common Ancestor: Australian Tales of the Bunyip.' In Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality, eds. J. Balanzategui and A. Craven (217-240). Amsterdam UP.
Balanzategui, J. and A. Craven. (2023). 'The Folk Horror "Feeling": Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult.' In Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality, eds. J. Balanzategui and A. Craven (241-268). Amsterdam UP.
Craven, A. (2019). 'Terraform and terra firma: Transnational economies of image, landscape and location in screen production in Queensland.' In Regional Cultures, Economies and Creativity:Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond, eds. Ariella van Luyn and Eduardo de la Fuente. Routledge.