Associate ProfessorLeonie Rutherford

Honorary Associate Professor

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

  • Honorary Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
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  • Off-Campus (Home)

TEACHING EXPERTISE

* Children's and Youth Literature and Multiplatform Textualities
* Adaptation
* Narrative Theory
* Research led writing projects

Expertise Summary
Expertise includes: includes media practices of children and youth, television
studies, multiplatform production, audience research, and influences of media
on children's digital literacy, health, and educational outcomes.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL228 - The Golden Age in Children's Literature
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL230 - Re-imagining literature for Young People
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL721 - Writing Fiction for Young Adults
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL 784 - Writing and Film
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL743 - Foundations in Narrative Theory
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Feminist Perspectives on Gender Ideology in Recent Young Adult Literature
    Joanna Walkden Harris - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Re-visioning Australian social realism through a feminine lens
    Grady Hancock - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    'spirit-music' Unbound: Romanticism and Print Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (1830-1905)
    Katrina Hansord - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Performing the 'Fiction-Writer's Reader': David Foster Wallace and Critical Rhetoric
    Mitchell Cunningham - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Narratological Investigation of Australian Graphic Novels for Children
    Cathy Sly - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fostering knowledge connections between healthy eating, active play and sustainability in early childhood education
    Heather Marie Morris - School of Psychology - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Textual Strategies for Promoting Deep Reading in Adolescents
    Michelle McRae - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Gothic as Transgressive Mode of Representation in Australian Women's Historical Fiction
    Gabrielle Anne Ryan - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Ambivalent Devil on the Early Modern English Stage
    Trelawny Montague - 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
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Bookseller and Librarian Practices for Influencing Teen Recreational Reading
    Anne-Marie Teresa May - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2024