DrJodi McAlister

Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 46244 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Jodi teaches across creative writing and literary studies in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She supervises several PhDs in the field of popular fiction studies.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Perrault's Bluebeard: Discourses of Disciplinary Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Fairytales
    Claudia Barnett - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Geocritical and Literary Cartographic Approach to Writing Place in Australian Urban Fantasy
    Sarai Cornes Mannolini-Winwood - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Lady of Tundun Anticolonial Neomedievalism through Fiction and Poetry
    Melclaire Sy Delfin - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Smartphone Romance Literature and Constructed Intimacy
    Xuan TU - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Erased and Re-written: queer historical romance fiction during political unrest
    Molly Devon Winters - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Teaching Writing in a Regional Community Through TTRPG Play
    Emma Mary Livesey - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Once Upon A Retelling: Romantasy Fiction, Classic Source Texts, and the Politics of Reimagination
    Rebekah Griffin - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Romantic comedy: a critical and creative enactment
    Toni Jordan - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Untold Stories of Baby Boomer Catholic Women in Australia
    Leigh Ann Cato - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Asexual Necropolitics: Slow Death and Death-Adjacency in Young Adult Fiction
    Noah O'Connor - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Representations of Mothers and Motherhood in Australian Young Adult Fiction
    Nicole Maree Hayes - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Community Worldbuilding - Genre and Form in SCP Wiki Online Collaborative Fiction Spaces
    Aiden Aylett - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2026