DrEmily Fuller

Emily Fuller is an award-winning scholar in contemporary and genre fiction, focussing on representations of transgressive embodiment. Using an intersectional approach via gender, race, age, disability and fat studies, her research is interested in socio-cultural zeitgeists such as 'Sad Girl Lit', the manosphere, heterofatalism, and subversive acts of consumption. Her work is published in top-ranking national and international publications including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Feminist Formations, and Contemporary Women's Writing. 

In recent work, she has explored how representations of infidelity frequently manifest in 'Sad Girl' texts to explore the mutually-reinforcing relationship between neoliberal capital and heteropatriarchy. She has also recently published research in food fiction, arguing how gastronomic concerns in literature operate as gendered mechanisms of control – over the bodies of others as well as those self-imposed practices of denial – as well as offering the potential for subversion, by consuming beyond expected or accepted norms and practices. She is also currently working on two NTRO projects: a 'Sad Girl' novel exploring friendship and intimacy in post-trauma, and a puzzle-platformer video game centring on visions of urbanised girlhood.

Emily is also an award-winning teacher and supervisor in the disciplines of literary studies and creative writing in the undergraduate and postgraduate spaces. She has extensive experience in teaching literary studies units such as foundational literary theory, postgraduate thesis writing and research, fantasy literature, children's literature, graphic narratives, canonical fiction, and popular genre fiction. In creative writing, she teaches across units including foundational writing tools and paradigms, life writing, poetry, and scriptwriting. She is incredibly passionate about creating research and learning communities, as well as accessibility in learning for all students, particularly in developing curriculum and pedagogical tools specifically designed to ensure First Nations, neurodiverse, and mature-age students can thrive in their studies.

Emily also acts as a supervisor in the Honours and Masters spaces, and has successfully supervised both creative and critical theses in a vast range of topics such as representations of queer cannibalism, gendered autism in body horror, domestic violence in Australian playwriting, ecofeminism and hauntology in the Gothic, and archival life writing through post-memory and intergenerational trauma.