Jay Eddy
(they/them)
Graduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
- Graduate ResearcherFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Jay has a broad area of interests, including young adult literature, disability studies, LGBTQIA+ literature, film and television, comics and graphic novels, genre fiction, children's literature, and much more.
They are currently working on their PhD thesis: Silence Speaks Volumes: Representations fo Nonverbalism in Young Adult Fiction. Their thesis is a close reading literary anlaysis which investigates the representations of nonverbalism and non-speaking characters in young adult novels.
Their Honours thesis - Finding "Home": Trauma and Identity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction - explored how trauma and setting in dystopian novels such as The Maze Runner series impacts the development of the character's identity and their sense of belonging.