Emma Maguire
- emma.maguire@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-5948- Senior Lecturer, English/Writing
- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Projects
0
Publications
42
Awards
5
Contact Details
Lecturer in English and Writing
- +61 7 4781 3121
- emma.maguire@jcu.edu.au
- https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/emma.maguire/
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1 James Cook Drive Townsville QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Emma Maguire is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing. She is currently researching women's transmedia narratives of youth sexual trauma after #MeToo.
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.
She is an organising member of the Life Narrative Lab and a steering committee member for the International Auto/Biography Association Asia-Pacific Chapter. Emma is a Deputy Editor for Life Writing.
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.
Research
Research Interests
Life Writing and Auto/Biography Studies
Cultural change around sexual violence in Australia
Creative nonfiction, memoir, the personal essay, autobiographical representation, biographical writing
Digital media, automediality, self-branding, and feminist media history
Trauma narratives
Teaching
Taught Modules
[EL2011] Creative WritingCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[EL3013] Reading and Writing the Short StoryCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[CU1010] Effective WritingCoordinator
2024
[EL2011] Creative WritingLecturer, Coordinator
2023
[EL2014] Creative NonfictionCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
[SY2022] Family, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary SocietyCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
2025
2024
2025
[EL2014] Creative NonfictionCoordinator, Lecturer
2024
[SY2022] Family, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary SocietyCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[EL2011] Creative WritingCoordinator, Lecturer
2024
[BA4101] Humanities Honours Seminar 1: ResearchCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[EL2047] Children's LiteratureCoordinator
2024
[EL2014] Creative NonfictionCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
2024
[EL1009] Great BooksCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[EL1009] Great BooksCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[EL2011] Creative WritingLecturer, Coordinator
2025
[EL3013] Reading and Writing the Short StoryCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[EL2011] Creative WritingLecturer
2021
[SY5022] Family, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary SocietyLecturer, Coordinator
2025
[CU1010] Effective WritingCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
[EL2014] Creative NonfictionLecturer, Coordinator
2023
[BA3000] Arts EdgeCoordinator
2024
[EL3013] Reading and Writing the Short StoryLecturer, Coordinator
2024
2024
Current JCU Research Students
What if landscapes had legal personhood? : Using speculative fiction to imagine the future of environmental law in Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts)
Affect and Relationality in #MeToo Literary Narratives
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Transforming Editorial Practice: Freelance editor's experiences navigating author-editor-text relationships in Australian book publishing
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Australian Women and True Crime: A Poetic Perspective
Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts)
Completed JCU Research Students
Re-Imagining the Australian Farm Novel: Writing Magic Realism into the Georgic
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2023
The Impact of Climate Crisis on Self, Identity and Emotion on Women’s Eco-Autobiographical Writing
Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts)- 2025
Activities
Awards
Associations
Employment
Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
2016 - 2016
Committees
Output
Maguire, Emma; Cardell, Kylie (2019) Sluts and sex objects: memoir and the millennial journalist. Goring, UK: [Non-Research Book Chapter]
Other Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2015) Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood. Abingdon, UK: [Non-Research Book Chapter]
Other Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
McAuslan, Mia-Francesca; Maguire, Emma (2025) 'Writing Climate, Season and Cycle: Autobiographical Composting in Maggie MacKellar’s Eco-Autobiography, Graft'. Life Writing, . [DOI]
Maguire, Emma (2019) 'Constructing the “Instagirl,” deconstructing the self-brand: Amalia Ulman’s Instagram hoax'. European Journal of Life Writing, 8 :12-32. [DOI]
Kennedy, Umit; Maguire, Emma (2018) 'The texts and subjects of automediality'. M/C Journal, 21 (2).
Cardell, Kylie; Maguire, Emma (2015) 'Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus'. Biography, 38 (2):205-221. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2015) 'Self-branding, hotness, and girlhood in the video blogs of Jenna Marbles'. Biography, 38 (1):72-86.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2014) 'Home, about, shop, contact: constructing an authorial persona via the author website'. M/C Journal, 17 (3).
Sheridan, Susan; Maguire, Emma (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).
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2013) 'Potential: Ariel Schrag contests (hetero-)normative girlhood'. Prose Studies, 35 (1):54-66. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Douglas, Kate; Cardell, Kylie; Deller, Marina; Maguire, Emma; Sandford, Shannon (2024) 'Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference' Life Writing, 21 (2) :179-195. [DOI]
Maguire, Emma (2023) 'Shame, Trauma, and the Body After #MeToo: The Year in Australia' Biography, 46 (1) :1-4. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
How Can Publishers Support the Authors of Trauma Memoirs As They Unpack Their Pain for the Public?
2023
Cardell, Kylie; Harous, Christiana; Maguire, Emma; Woodyatt, Lydia (2023) 'How Can Publishers Support the Authors of Trauma Memoirs As They Unpack Their Pain for the Public?' The Conversation, .
Maguire, Emma (2023) 'New Aussie Drama Bad Behaviour Gives Us A Complex Portrayal of Girlhood and Queer Stories' The Conversation, .
Maguire, Emma (2023) 'New Aussie Black Comedy Totally Completely Fine Explores Suicide, Grief, Isolation and the Power of Human Connection' The Conversation, .
Maguire, Emma (2023) '#MeToo Tells Us That Legal Systems Have Failed Women' Mai: feminism & visual culture, 11 .
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2022) 'Book review of Witnessing Girlhood: toward an intersectional tradition of life writing by Leigh Gilmore & Elizabeth Marshall. New York, USA, Fordham University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-8232-8548-8' Auto/Biography Studies, 37 (2) :362-367. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2022) 'Rev. of New Forms of Self-Narration: Young women, life writing and human rights' a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 37 (3) :536-542. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2022) 'Book review of Lohrey: Contemporary Australian Writers by Julieanne Lamond. Melbourne University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780522878936' Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 23 (1) .
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2022) 'More Than a Murder Mystery: Savage River is a Gripping New Take on the Australian Gothic' The Conversation, .
Maguire, Emma (2021) 'Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves by Roberto Simanowski (review)' Biography, 44 (4) :672-676. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2020) 'Kokomo by Victoria Hannan: a millennial fiction that spans generations' The Conversation, 30 July 2020 .
Maguire, Emma (2020) 'Young women won’t be told how to behave, but is #girlboss just deportment by another name?' The Conversation, 26 February 2020 .
Maguire, Emma (2020) 'Choke me, daddy?: the subversive power of consensual pain' Lip Magazine, 25 February 2020 .
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping - watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones
2019
Maguire, Emma (2019) 'Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping - watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones' The Conversation, .
Maguire, Emma (2019) 'Self-help: Yumi Sakugawa’s Instagram account' European Journal of Life Writing, 8 . [DOI]
Collaboration
2017
Faini, Maria; Lael Netzer, Orly; Maguire, Emma (2017) 'Collaboration' Auto/Biography Studies, 32 (2) :247-250. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Faini, Maria; Netzer, Orly Lael; Maguire, Emma (2017) 'Students and New Scholars: A Conversation' Auto/Biography Studies, 32 (2) :383-384. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2016) 'Who should have the body? A confession about listening to rape testimony' Feminartsy, 25 October 2016 .
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Under the Corn
2020
Maguire, Emma (2020) Under the Corn. [Original Work]
Creative Works
ResearchOnline@JCU
Satelle's machine
2019
Maguire, Emma (2019) Satelle's machine. [Original Work]
Creative Works
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2020) International Auto/Biography Association: Teaching Life Writing Conference Teaching life reading and life writing through archives Virtual, .
Conference Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Butterworth, Lauren; Pryor, Melanie; Maguire, Emma (2019) Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) 24th Annual Conference: writing through The witch and the personal essay: feminism, magic, and the auto/biographical 'I' Sydney, NSW, Australia, .
Conference Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2018) AoIR2018: The Association of Internet Researchers Conference: Transnational Materialities XConfessions: A case study of digital crowdsourcing and transnational community-building in feminist pornography Montréal, Canada, .
Conference Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2023) 'A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror' In: Maguire, Emma (2023) A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror. In: Craven, Allison, and Balanzategui, Jessica, (eds.) Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/Materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 145-171(Eds.). Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/Materiality, Regionality. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press.
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2023) 'Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher Profile' In: Maguire, Emma (2023) Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher Profile. In: Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa, (ed.) Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided. Routledge Auto/Biography Studies . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 36-53(Eds.). Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided. New York, NY, USA : Routledge. [DOI]
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2019) 'Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studying undervalued life narrative' In: Maguire, Emma (2019) Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studying undervalued life narrative. In: Douglas, Kate, and Barnwell, Ashley, (eds.) Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 200-207(Eds.). Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. New York, USA : Routledge. [DOI]
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Cardell, Kylie; Douglas, Kate; Maguire, Emma (2017) ''Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir' In: Cardell, Kylie, Douglas, Kate, and Maguire, Emma (2017) 'Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir. In: Avieson, Bunty, Giles, Fiona, and Joseph, Sue, (eds.) Mediating Memory: tracing the limits of memoir. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 157-172(Eds.). Mediating Memory: tracing the limits of memoir. New York, NY, USA : Routledge. [DOI]
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Maguire, Emma (2018) Girls, Autobiography, Media: gender and self-mediation in digital economies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
Book
ResearchOnline@JCU