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DrLenise Prater

(She/they)

Lecturer

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

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  • Lecturer
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Lenise Prater (she/they) teaches about and researches popular genres, Young Adult fiction, children's literature and gender studies. Her research develops queer feminist frameworks for analysing fantasy fictions, often to explore the representation of interpersonal harm and violence. Their research has been published in Australian Feminist Studies, Hecate and in the edited collections Young Adult Gothic fiction: monstrous selves/monstrous others (University of Wales Press) and Gender and sexuality in contemporary popular fantasy : beyond boy wizards and "kick-ass" chicks (Routledge). 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Cultural studies
  • Literary studies
  • Gender studies

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Communication and Creative Arts