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Associate ProfessorHelen Young

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Helen has taught widely in Literary Studies, Communications and Creative Writing since 2004. Recent units include "Fantasy and Historical Fiction," "Masters Research Literary Theory," and "Writing for Games."

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL701 - Retelling Myths And Tales: Classic To Contemporary
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL706 - Histories, Fictions
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Womens Fiction and Trauma: A Creative Thesis Plus Exegesis
    Suzanne Kenton - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    `A Monster In Man's Flesh': Reading monstrosity in George R.R Martins A Song of Ice and Fire
    Isabella Dillon - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Depictions and Understandings of Child Monsters in Popular Culture
    Keiley Colpoys - 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
    Culture in Story: How the Built World of a Fantasy Novel Assists in Exploring Genre
    Gillian Sarah Polack - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Green Magic: strategies of environmentalism in the magic systems of fantasy literature
    Finley Dunn - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Videoludic Ecogothic: Ecophobia, Affect and the Gothic Tradition in Video Games
    Morgan Pinder - 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
    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
    Spatial and Temporal Re-Imaginings in Contemporary Climate Crisis Fiction
    Anita Jaboor - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    False Gods and Faultlines: Reading Great Recession Fiction
    Samantha Phillips - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Trauma and Testimony in Contemporary Crime Fiction
    Karen Lyon - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    From Conflict to Kinship: Renegotiating Age in Youth Fantasy Fiction
    Samantha Stephens - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022