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Associate Professor Jenny Lawn MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Doctoral Mentor Supervisor
School of Humanities Media and Creative Comm

My teaching and research areas focus on narrative genres studied within social contexts, including Gothic studies, gender studies, New Zealand fiction, materialist approaches, crime fiction, and contemporary fiction. My book, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008 (published under the name "Jennifer Lawn" with Lexington, 2016) examines the way that New Zealand writers responded to the country's swift turn to neoliberal economic and social policies, embedding the conflicts of the time into both the content and form of their works. 

I'm based at the Auckland campus.

Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: +649 213 6337
    Location: AT 2.54, Atrium Building
    Campus: Auckland

Qualifications

  • Master of Arts - University of British Columbia (1991)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of British Columbia (1997)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Mentor Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

  • Postcolonial literature
  • Narrative theory
  • Kiwi Gothic
  • Gothic studies
  • Gender theory
  • Representations of trauma in literature and film
  • Contemporary New Zealand literary and cultural studies
  • New Zealand writers’ response to the era of neoliberalism as a cultural and economic phenomenon

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Cultural Studies (200200): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000): Literary Studies (200500): Maori Literature (200504): New Zealand Literature (excl. Maori Literature) (200505): Postcolonial Studies (200211)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 5

Research Outputs

Journal

Lawn, J. (2022). The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 58(3), 361-373
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2018). Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific. Journal of New Zealand Studies. 26, 5-17 Retrieved from https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/4838
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2015). Avril bell (2014) relating indigenous and settler identities: Beyond domination houndmills, uk: Palgrave macmillan. New Zealand Sociology. 30(1), 263-270
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Hansen, H., & Lawn, JM. (2017). Fangs, freaks and feminism: Female Masochism in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 4(1), 28-43
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2017). Precarity: A Short Literary History, from Colonial Slum to Cosmopolitan Precariat. Interventions. 19(7), 1026-1040
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J., Bortolotto, MC., Worthington, K., & Meek, A. (2016). Introduction: The limits of responsibility. Borderlands e-Journal : New Spaces in the Humanities. 14(2), 1-14
[Journal article]Authored by: Bortolotto, M., Lawn, J., Worthington, K.
Lawn, JM., & Prentice, C. (2015). Introduction: Neoliberal culture/The cultures of neoliberalism. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 12(1), 1-29
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2013). Revisiting 'fiction and the social pattern' in the era of social death. Journal of New Zealand Literature. 31(2), 95-121
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2011). Neoliberalism and the politics of indigenous community in the fiction of Alan duff and Witi Ihimaera. Social Semiotics. 21(1), 85-99
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2010). Badlands and borderlands: Self-determination and the limits of intercultural negotiation in the fiction of patricia grace and alice Tawhai. Australian Literary Studies. 25(4), 1-16
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2010). 11 views of Auckland: Soft-boiled in Ponsonby: The topographies of murder in the crime fiction of Charlotte Grimshaw and Alix Bosco. Social and Cultral Studies. 10, 105-120
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2006). From the spectral to the ghostly: Postcolonial gothic and New Zealand literature. Australasian Canadian Studies. 24(2), 143-169
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2008). Settler society and postcolonial apologies in Australia and New Zeland. Sites: A journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 5(1), 20-40
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2010). Capitalism for new entrants : Rogernomics and the literary critique of neoliberalism. Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies. 1(1), 45-55
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM., & Beatty, B. (2005). Getting to Wellywood: National branding and the globalisation of the New Zealand film industry. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. 24, 122-139
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2004). Scarfies, Dunedin gothic, and the spirit of capitalism. Journal of New Zealand Literature. 22, 124-140
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2003). Born under the sign of Joan: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, mommie dearest, and the uses of maternal ambivalence. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering. 5(1), 33-44
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (1995). Our Bodies Their Selves: Gender, Language, and Knowledge in Chapter Seventeen of Cat's Eye. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory. 6(3-4), 269-283
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2011). Reading Pakeha? Fiction and identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 47(2), 252-253
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2010). Takapuna domestics. Journal of New Zealand Literature. 28, 137-147
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2009). Afterword: Mixing things up in the business of the arts. Aesthesis. 3(1), 35-36
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2009). The role of artists in society: An interview with NZTrio. Aesthesis. 3(1), 30-34
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2008). Review: The viewing platform, by Ian Wedde. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 44(2), 216-217
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2007). Mythmaking, mythbreaking. Landfall. 213, 197-203
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2005). Bags of actuality, a book review of 'After the fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne'. JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature. 23(2), 92-100
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2003). Simone Oettli-van Delden, a book review of Surfaces of Strangeness: Janet Frame and the rhetoric of madness. World Literature Written in English. 39(2), 140-143
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2003). Avoiding the cookie-cutter, a book review of 'Manifold Utopia: The Novels of Janet Frame'. New Zealand Books. 13(3), 14
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2003). A book review of 'Surfaces of strangeness: Janet Frame and the rhetoric of madness'. World Literature Written in English. 39(2), 140-143
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2002). Domesticating settler gothic in New Zealand literature. New Literatures Review. 38, 46-62
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2000). A life fulfilled. Kite: Newsletter of the Association of New Zealand Literature. 19, 9-11
[Journal article]Authored by: Lawn, J.

Book

Hansen, H., & Lawn, J. (2023). Gendered fault lines: Reproductive politics in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls.. In AJ. Hobson, & UM. Anyiwo (Eds.) Queering the Vampire Narrative. (pp. 46 - 60). : Queer Studies in Education
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2022). Mapping Settler Gothic: Noir and the Shameful Histories of the Pākehā Middle Class in The Bad Seed.. In J. Gildersleeve, & K. Cantrell (Eds.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. (pp. 195 - 212). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J.(2015). Neoliberalism and cultural transition in New Zealand literature, 1984-2008: Market fictions. : Lexington Books
[Authored Book]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2018). Genre fiction since 1950: Crime fiction, dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy. In The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950. (pp. 466 - 480).
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM., & Prentice, C. (2015). Neoliberal culture/the cultures of neoliberalism. JM. Lawn, & C. Prentice (Eds.) (Vol. 12) : Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand
[Scholarly edition]Authored by: Lawn, J.Edited by: Lawn, J.
Allen, N., Beausoleil, E., Bignall, S., Meek, A., Meffan, J., & Pino-Ojeda, W. (2015). The limits of responsibility. J. Lawn, MC. Bortolotto, K. Worthington, & A. Meek (Eds.) (Vol. 4) ,on-line: Anthony Burke University of Adelaide (Australia)
[Scholarly edition]Authored by: Bortolotto, M.Edited by: Bortolotto, M., Lawn, J., Worthington, K.
Lawn, JM. (2009). Playing with freud: radical narcissism and intertextuality in frame's intensive care and daughter buffalo. In J. Cronin, & S. Drichel (Eds.) Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. (pp. 25 - 47). The Netherlands: Rodopi B.V. Amsterdam-New York
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2009). What the Dickens: Storytelling and intertextuality in Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip. In A. Jackson, & J. Stafford (Eds.) Floating Worlds. (pp. 142 - 163). Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM., & Beatty, B. (2006). 'On the brink of a new threshold of opportunity': The Lord of the Rings and New Zealand cultural policy. In E. Mathijs (Ed.) The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context. (pp. 43 - 60). London, UK: Wallflower Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Kavka, M., Lawn, J., & Paul, M. (Eds.) (2006). Gothic NZ: The darker side of kiwi culture. Dunedin, NZ: Otago University Press
[Edited Book]Edited by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2006). Warping the familiar. In M. Kavka, J. Lawn, & M. Paul (Eds.) Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture. (pp. 11 - 21). Dunedin, NZ: Otago University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2006). Creativity inc.: Globalizing the cultural imaginary in New Zealand. In CAB. Joseph, & J. Wilson (Eds.) Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions. (pp. 225 - 245). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2005). Arts, culture and heritage. E. Rimoldi, J. Lawn, N. Lunt, & GM. Eds (Eds.)Auckland, NZ: Massey University, School of Social and Cultural Studies
[Monograph]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2005). The word as remnant: Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. In C. Gibson, & L. Marr (Eds.) New Windows on a Woman's World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris: Volume 2. (pp. 385 - 401). Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago, Department of English
[Chapter]Authored by: Lawn, J.
O'Brien, MA., Rimoldi, EC., Lawn, JM., Te Momo, FH., & Lunt, NT. (2005). What kind of New Zealand do we want to build? Towards an inclusive social policy. Palmerston North, NZ: Massey University
[Monograph]Authored by: Lawn, J., Te Momo, O.
Kavka, M., Lawn, J., & Paul, M. (Eds.)Gothic NZ: The darker side of kiwi culture. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press
[Edited Book]Edited by: Lawn, J.

Conference

Lawn, J. (2021, September). Bad seeds: Trauma and middle-class masks in Charlotte Grimshaw’s storytelling complex.. Presented at Popular Storytelling: From Mainstream to the Margins. AUT University.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J. (2021, December). The dying of homo neoliberalismus: Satiric futilitarianism in Lionel Shriver’s novel Should We Stay or Should We Go.. Presented at ASCP (Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy) Annual Conference, 2021. Bond University.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2015, March). Filiation and Affiliation: Reclaimed Ethnicities and Carceral Selves in “Post-settlement” New Zealand Literature.. Presented at Partitions, Democracy (and Europe).. University of St Andrews, St Andrews.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2015, February). Paul Cleave’s Joyless Avengers and the Resurgence of the Obscene Father.. Presented at Popular Gothic Symposium. AUT University.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.The short revolution: Rolling back modernity. . Wellington, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.Paul Cleave’s joyless avengers and the resurgence of the obscene father. . Auckland, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.Filiation and affiliation: Reclaimed ethnicities and carceral selves in “post-settlement” New Zealand literature. . St Andrews, Scotland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.Antigone as male hysteria: Pākehā settler masculinity and the spectacular corpse in Carl Nixon’s settlers’ creek. . Dunedin, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.“Start with the darkness and paint in the light”: Settler “identity cards” and clandestine desires in Canada and New Zealand. . Seattle, WA
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2012, July). Revisiting "Fiction and the Social Pattern" in the Era of Social Death. Presented at New Zealand's Cultures: Histories, Sources, Futures. Birkbeck College, University of London.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.Reconciliation Discourses and Transgenerational Settler Memory.. . Paris, France
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2012, July). Reconciliation discourses and transgenerational settler memory. Presented at 9th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Paris, France.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2012, December). Whose Story Counts? Patterns in the Social Novel in New Zealand Literature post 1984. Presented at The Limits of Responsibility: Histories, Species, Politics.. Massey University, Palmerston North..
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM., & Liu, K. (2011, November). At home with the enemy: family bonds and traumatic affect in the 9/11 fiction of Don DeLillo and Lorrie Moore. Presented at Postcolonial Studies Research Network Conference. Dunedin, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2011, September). The decline and fall of Lange's empire: syncope and post-nationalist alienation in Damien Wilkins' The Fainter. Presented at Man Alone. Victoria University, Wellington, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2011, June 29). Neoliberal Dystopias: John Cranna's Arena and Rosie Scott's Feral City. (pp. 1 - 7). , POPCAANZ
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J.(2010). Enigmatic signifiers and the reproduction of intra-familial violence in Christos Tsiolkas' novel: The Slap. . University of Otago, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2009, June). Branding the landscape. Presented at The New Exotic? Postcolonialism and Globalization. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2009). Maori literature and the impossibility of neoliberal community. . Cardiff University, Wales UK
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2009). Life in the contact zone: practising a postcolonising national identity. . Sheffield Hallam University, UK
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2009). Traumatising the gothic. . Lancaster University, Lancaster UK
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2008). Traumatic dead-ends. In Proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference (CSAA)(pp. 59 - 59). : CSAA
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2008). Traumatic dead-ends. . Kalgoorile, WA
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2008). Trafficking in culture: Developing a local framework for the political economy of culture. . Wellington, NZ
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2008). Trauma theory, settler gothic, and the sexual abuse of children in contemporary New Zealand fiction. . Perth, WA
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2005). Postcolonial Bloomsbury: The writers' residency dispute of 1990.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2004, September). New Zealand cultural policy studies? Lessons from Australia. Presented at 2004 Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference. Walsh Bay, Sydney, NSW.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM., & Beatty, B. (2003, June). Selling Middle Earth: New Zealand as globalised mythic space in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Presented at 10th Annual Day Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association. London, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2003). Mapping the postcolonial uncanny.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2003). Riding the whale: Transnational capital and the New Zealand film industry.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2001, June). Gothic down under: the southern(most) Gothic and Dunedin. Presented at Gothic Cults and Cultures. Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia....
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2001, June). Born under the sign of Joan: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle , Mommie Dearest, and mother-daughter rage. Presented at Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Regional Conference: Canada in New Zealand. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM.(2001). Gothic down under: The southern(most) gothic of Dunedin.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2000). Developing a web-based interactive module for distance teaching of paragraphing skills through ''drag-and-drop'' textual manipulation. In B. Day, L. Emerson, & VR. Eds (Eds.) Tertiary Writing Network: Proceedings. (pp. 65 - 70). Hamilton, NZ
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2000, December). Developing a web-based interactive module for distance teaching of paragraphing skills through ''drag-and-drop'' textual manipulation. Presented at Tertiary Writing Network. Hamilton Gardens Pavilion, Hamilton, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.

Other

Lawn, J. (2023). Paul Cleave. : The Literary Encyclopedia
[Internet publication]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2015). Book review: Relating indigenous and settler identities by Avril Bell. (pp. 263 - 270).
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2012). Review of The Frame Function: A Inside-Out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame.. (pp. 459 - 460).
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2012, January). Start with the darkness and paint in the light: Settler "Identity Cards" and clandestine desires in Canada and New Zealand. In Modern Language Association of America Convention. Presented at Washington State Convention Centre,Seattle, USA.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2010). Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip. (pp. 1 - 6). The Literary Dictionary Company Limited
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, J., & Rimoldi, E. (2008, October). Who is Matilda? Character and place in Mr Pip. In Massey University Public Lecture Series, Albany Campus. Presented at Auckland, New Zealand.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2008). Ian Wedde (1946-). The Literary Dictionary Company Limited
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2006, October). Janet Frame: 21st-century interpretations. In Massey University Free Public Lectures. Presented at Massey University, Auckland, NZ.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2005, March). The state and the arts: Nationalising Janet Frame. : Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2003). On time and under budget: Supporting first-year report writing through task management.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Lawn, JM. (2001). "Introduction: Launching Off in Social and Cultural Studies". (pp. v - vii). School of Social and Cultural Studies
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.
Sarro, F., Hall, T., Baddoo, N., Buckley, J., English, M., Counsell, S., . . . Zanoni, M. (2016). Editorial.
[Other]Authored by: Lawn, J.

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

I'm an accredited mentor supervisor with Massey University and Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA).

My teaching equips students with the conceptual and practical skills to become astute readers and sophisticated writers across a range of genres and contexts. Versatility and constant striving for the highest quality of engagement with students are hallmarks of my approach. Using a flexible and responsive repertoire of teaching practices, I have developed, and successfully delivered, papers that contribute to programmes in English, Expressive Arts, Media Studies, and Communication. Putting ideas into action through working (and playing) with texts is a key teaching ideal that I carry across these programmes, and a way of making the most of fertile areas of overlap in teaching methods and learning materials between these disciplines.

In recent years I have focused my pedagogical practice on: (i) applying the tools available in a blended learning environment with careful regard to students’ learning needs; (ii) giving particular thought to the flow of ideas and activities as students transition from one level of progress to the next; (iii) opening channels of feedback in multiple ways during the course; and (iv) helping to foster a community of practice with my tutoring team, and, more recently, across staff in my academic unit.

Graduate Supervision Statement

Postgraduate supervision is a great pleaure and a privilege. I aim to be flexible, open-minded, and attentive to student needs in a holistic way. I welcome any expressions of interest in the following areas of interest:

  • Gothic studies / settler Gothic
  • gender studies
  • New Zealand fiction
  • materialist approaches to literature and culture
  • crime fiction
  • contemporary fiction and narrative genres

Associate Professor Jenny Lawn is available for Masters and Doctorial supervision.

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 2 3
Co-supervisor 0 4

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Cynthia Hiu Ying Lam - Doctor of Philosophy
    Resistance, Healing and Empowerment through Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance–– 愛,媽媽 (Love, Mum): A Solo Matrilineal Memoir on Chinese Womanhood
  • Hannah Hansen - Doctor of Philosophy
    Empowering the Paranormal: Monstrosity, Power, and Postfeminism in the Paranormal Romance

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2022 - Perina Chapelle - Doctor of Philosophy
    Framing the Financially Literate Subject: An Analysis of Financial Literacy Discourse in New Zealand
  • 2021 - Gaja Kolodziej - Doctor of Philosophy
    Unforgettably in Love: Uses of the Amnesia Trope in Contemporary Romance
  • 2007 - Bronwyn Beatty - Doctor of Philosophy
    The currency of heroic fantasy : The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter from Ideology to Industry.

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2014 - Robert Redmond - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Femme Fatale in Postfeminist Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction: Redundant or Re-Inventing Herself?
  • 2013 - Ann Lochead - Doctor of Philosophy
    Moral Uncertainty and Contemporary Children's Fantasy Fiction
  • 2012 - Wendy Bolitho - Doctor of Philosophy
    Silent Invocations: Music, Sublimation and Social Transformation
  • 2009 - Leonard Sanders - Doctor of Philosophy
    Postmodern Orientalism: William Gibson, Cyberpunk and Japan

Media and Links

Media

  • 13 Apr 2013 - Radio
    Research-related radion interview
    Interview with Lynn Freeman on NZ crime fiction, Standing Room Only, Radio NZ National (16’25”).