Emma Maguire

emma.maguire@jcu.edu.au
Lecturer, English/Writing

Projects

0

Publications

41

Awards

4

Contact Details

Lecturer in English and Writing

+61 7 4781 3121
emma.maguire@jcu.edu.au
https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/emma.maguire/
Bebegu Yumba/Townsville Campus

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.

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.

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 Digital Content Editor for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Research

Research Interests

Life Writing and Auto/Biography Studies

Creative nonfiction, memoir, the personal essay, autobiographical representation, biographical writing

Digital media, automediality, self-branding, and feminist media history

Teaching

Current JCU Research Students

Practice-led research in creative writing: exploring the power of nature to alleviate feelings of homesickness through life writing.

Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts)

Living landscapes in Far North Queensland

Master of Philosophy (Creative Arts)

Searching for the German Modern Girl: Literary Representations of Womanhood during the Weimar Republic 1920s – 1930s

Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)

Affect and Relationality in #MeToo Literary Narratives

Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)

Completed JCU Research Students

Re-Imagining the Australian Farm Novel: Writing Magic Realism into the Georgic

Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2023

Activities

Awards

Vice Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence

2017

Best Student Paper Award for “Home, About, Shop, Contact: Constructing an Authorial Persona via the Author Website,” published in M/C (Media/Culture) Journal.

2015

School of Humanities and Creative Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Part Time Teaching

2014

Runner Up: 3 Minute Thesis University Final

2013

Associations

Australasian Association of Writing Programs

International Auto/Biography Association

Employment

Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University

2016 - 2016

Tutor - English & Creative Writing, Flinders University

2013 - 2015

Committees

JCU Bachelor of Arts Advisory Group

2024

Output

A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror

2023

Maguire, Emma (2023) A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror. Amsterdam, Netherlands: ...

Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU

Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher Profile

2023

Maguire, Emma (2023) Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researc. New York, NY, USA: [DOI] ...

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Sluts and sex objects: memoir and the millennial journalist

2019

Maguire, Emma; Cardell, Kylie (2019) Sluts and sex objects: memoir and the millennial journalist. Goring, UK: ...

Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU

Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studying undervalued life narrative

2019

Maguire, Emma (2019) Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studyin. New York, USA: [DOI] ...

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'Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir

2017

Cardell, Kylie; Douglas, Kate; Maguire, Emma (2017) 'Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives. New York, NY, USA: [DOI] ...

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Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood

2015

Maguire, Emma (2015) Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood. Abingdon, UK: [Non-Research Book Chapter] ...

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Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process

2024

Maguire, Emma; Deller, Marina (2024) 'Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding. Life Writing, . [DOI] ...

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Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference

2024

Douglas, K.; Cardell, K.; Deller, M.; Maguire, E.; Sandford, S. (2024) 'Field Culture in Unprecedent. Life Writing, 21 . [Link] [DOI] ...

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Constructing the “Instagirl,” deconstructing the self-brand: Amalia Ulman’s Instagram hoax

2019

Maguire, Emma (2019) 'Constructing the “Instagirl,” deconstructing the self-brand: Amalia Ulman’s In. European Journal of Life Writing, 8 :12-32. [DOI] ...

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The texts and subjects of automediality

2018

Kennedy, Umit; Maguire, Emma (2018) 'The texts and subjects of automediality'. M/C Journal, 21 (2). ...

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Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus

2015

Cardell, Kylie; Maguire, Emma (2015) 'Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of . Biography, 38 (2):205-221. [DOI] ...

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Self-branding, hotness, and girlhood in the video blogs of Jenna Marbles

2015

Maguire, Emma (2015) 'Self-branding, hotness, and girlhood in the video blogs of Jenna Marbles'. Biography, 38 (1):72-86. ...

Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU

Home, about, shop, contact: constructing an authorial persona via the author website

2014

Maguire, Emma (2014) 'Home, about, shop, contact: constructing an authorial persona via the author w. M/C Journal, 17 (3). ...

Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU

Relationships to the bush in Nan Chauncy's early novels for children

2014

Sheridan, Susan; Maguire, Emma (2014) 'Relationships to the bush in Nan Chauncy's early novels for c. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Lite, 14 (3). ...

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Potential: Ariel Schrag contests (hetero-)normative girlhood

2013

Maguire, Emma (2013) 'Potential: Ariel Schrag contests (hetero-)normative girlhood'. 35 (1):54-66. [DOI] ...

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#MeToo Tells Us That Legal Systems Have Failed Women

2023

Maguire, Emma (2023) '#MeToo Tells Us That Legal Systems Have Failed Women' Mai: feminism & visual culture, 11 . ...