Personal
- Name
- Professor Kerry Mallan
- Position(s)
- Professor
Faculty of Education,
Children and Youth Research Centre - Discipline *
- Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3463
- k.mallan@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (James Cook Uni. of North Qld), MEdSt (University of Queensland), GDT-Lib (Kelvin Grove C.A.E), BEdSt (University of Queensland), DipT (Mt. Gravatt C.A.E)
- Professional memberships
and associations - International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL)
- Congress Convenor, IRSCL 19 th Biennial Congress IRSCL, 2011
- Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR)
- Keywords
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Children's literature, Young adult literature, children's film, gender and sexuality, utopianism, youth cultures
Biography
Kerry has worked at QUT since 1988. Since that time she has continued to teach and coordinate units in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She supervises doctoral students in areas of children’s literature, media, education, and oral history. She was course coordinator for ED25, Graduate Diploma in Education (Teacher-Librarianship) from 1999 – 2004.
Her academic work is transdisciplinary in that it informs 4 key areas – children’s literature, youth and popular culture, new media, and library and information services. Her particular research strengths are in textual analysis in relation to film and literary texts, and in the application of feminist and queer theories to the study of texts.
She has sole authored 4 books, coedited/coauthored a further 5 books, and published around 60 scholarly articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries. She currently has a book contract with Palgrave Macmillan for Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Texts. Her co-edited book, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities (with Sharyn Pearce) won the Honour Book Award by the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, 2003.
Kerry has a successful track record in competitive grant funding with ARC Discovery, ARC Linkage, ARC LIEF, Canada Asia Pacific Award, Sheila Kimpton and Alice Creswick, and a number of QUT research grants.
Mallan has delivered plenary and keynote addresses in Australia, China, Ireland, Finland, and Indonesia (via translator).
She was an invited senior scholar to:
- Roehampton University (2007)
- Ningbo University (2007)
- Beijing Normal University (2005)
- International Office of Children’s Literature, Shanghai (2005)
- University of Alberta, Canada (2003)
- Worcester University, UK (2001)
- Högskolan I Boras, Sweden (2001).
She has presented at conferences in Australia, China, UK, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Norway, New Zealand, Japan.
She has been invited to conduct short-term professional development programs and summer schools for doctoral students in:
- Beijing Normal University (China, 2005)
- Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (via translator)
- Jakarta (Indonesia, 2005)
- Nordic Fourth Workshop Åland, (Finland, 2005)
- CLISS, University of Roehampton (UK, 2007).
Kerry is co-editor of Australia’s principal scholarly journal in children’s literature: ‘Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature’.
Experience
Since 1988, Professor Mallan has responded to 94 invitations to present workshops, talks, at various International, National and State professional development programs, conferences, and seminars. These comprise 11 different professional associations across literacy, children’s literature, English teaching, teacher-librarianship.
Publications
- Mallan KM, (2009) Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction p1-240
- Mallan KM, (2009) Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks, Digital Culture and Education p51-66
- Bradford CM, Mallan KM, Stephens JA, McCallum R, (2008) New world orders in contemporary children's literature: Utopian transformations p1-256
- Mallan KM, (2008) Imagining identity, community and historical memory in Canadian picture books., Canadian Children's Literature CCL p147-164
- Mallan KM, (2008) Space, power and knowledge: The regulatory fictions of online communities, International Research in Children's Literature p66-81
- Mallan KM, Pearce SM, (2003) Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities, Praeger Publishers
- Mallan KM, (2006) 'Just a Boy in a Dress': Performing Gender in Male-to-Female Cross-dressing Narratives, Turning the Page: Children's Literature in Performance and the Media p251-268
- Mallan K, Pearce S, (2004) Seriously Playful: Genre, Performance and Text, PostPressed
- Mallan KM, (2004) (M)other love: Constructing Queer families in 'Girl Walking Backwards' and Obsession., Children's Literature Association Quarterly p345-357
- Mallan KM, (2003) Performing Bodies: Narrative, Representation and Children's Storytelling p1-314
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- Invited to be on review board of the refereed journal 'Digital Culture and Education'.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2003
- Details
- International Research Society in Children's Literature Honor Book Award (2003) for 'Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities'.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2005
- Details
- Adjunct Professor, Chinese Literature and Language Research Centre, Beijing Normal University (2005 ongoing);
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2006
- Details
- The Children's Book Council of Australia Dame Annabelle Rankin Award, 2006 for 'Distinguished Services to Children's Literature in Queensland'.
- Type
- International Collaboration
- Reference year
- 2005
- Details
- Invited scholar, Beijing Normal University to give a series of keynote lectures in Beijing and Shanghai.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2005
- Details
- Invited Senior Scholar, Norchilnet: Fourth Nordic Children's Literature Research Workshop (2005),
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited keynote speaker, Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited keynote speaker, Symposium on Adolescent Literature, Ningbo University.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited scholar, Children's Literature Institute Summer School, Roehampton University.
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited visiting scholar, University of Surrey, Roehampton
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0882274
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Community Engagement, Community Informatics, New Media, Urban Planning
- Title
- Growing up in networked spaces: Tech-savvy youth constructing identities and forming social relations in online and offline worlds
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0665633
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Youth, Identity, New media, Sociality, Cultural contexts, Globalisation.
- Title
- Transformative Utopianism: Contemporary Children's Literature Responding to Changing World Orders from Glasnost to 11 September, 2001.
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0343372
- Start year
- 2003
- Keywords
- children's literature utopias
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- School-community engagement: A critical approach to involving young people in an urban planning project (2012)
- Playing with picturebooks : postmodernism and the postmodernesque (2011)
- "Surviving" adolescence : apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic transformations in young adult fiction (2010)
- Boys 'doing' and 'undoing' media education: New possibilities for theory and practice (2009)
- The Whole World Shook : Shifts In Ethnic, National And Heroic Identities In Children'S Fiction About 9/11 (2008)
- In Search Of A Childhood Landscape : Historical Narratives From A Queensland Kindergarten, 1940-1965 (2005)
