Emeritus Professor
Kerry Mallan
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Biography
Kerry was the Director of the Children and Youth Research Centre at QUT from 2011-2016. Her work is cross-disciplinary and focuses on children's literature, youth and popular culture, digital media texts and practices. 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. Kerry has published 12 books, including 7 sole authored and 1 co-authored. Her co-edited book, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities won the Honour Book Award by the International Research Society for Children's Literature, 2003. Her most recent books are Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (2013) and an edited collection Picture Books and Beyond (2014). Kerry has a successful track record in competitive grant funding with ARC Discovery, ARC Linkage, ARC LIEF, Canada Asia Pacific Award, and Sheila Kimpton and Alice Creswick. She has also been successful with a number of Government and non-Government tender bids in relation to children and youth services and support. Kerry has delivered over 30 plenary and keynote addresses in Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, Indonesia (via translator), Ireland, Sweden, and Taiwan. She has been been an invited senior scholar to Roehampton University; Ningbo University; Beijing Normal University; University of Calgary; University of Alberta; Worcester University; Nanjing University; Soochow University; National Tapei University of Education; Fo Guang University. Kerry is joint editor of book series, Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (Palgrave UK) and co-editor of Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature.Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education - Emeritus Professor
Administrative Division,
Human Resources
Keywords
Children's literature, Young adult literature, children's film, gender and sexuality, utopianism, youth cultures, digital cultures
Research field
Literary Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
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)
- Children's Literature Association
Teaching
Kerry has supervised HDR students working in diverse fields: children's literature (and YA literature); media studies; school-community development projects; digital media; creative writing; creative photographic works. Three students received Outstanding QUT Award for Doctoral Thesis.
Experience
Kerry has responded to numerous invitations to give seminars and addresses at various international, national and state professional development programs, conferences, and seminars. These comprise different professional associations across literacy, children's literature, English teaching, Foreign Languages Institutes, and teacher-librarianship.
Publications
- Mallan, K., (2015). Surviving the electronic panopticon: new lessons in democracy, surveillance, and community in young adult fiction. In D. Araya (Ed.), Smart cities as democratic ecologies (pp. 142–158). Palgrave Macmilan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76326
- Mallan, K., (2014). Everything you do: young adult fiction and surveillance in an age of security. International Research in Children's Literature, 7(1), 1–17. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69803
- Mallan, K., (2013). Secrets, lies and children's fiction [Critical Approaches to Children's Literature]. Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100044
- Wu, Y., Mallan, K. & McGillis, R. (2013). (Re)imagining the world: Children's literature's response to changing times [New Frontiers of Educational Research series]. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61106
- Mallan, K., (2012). Strolling through the (post)modern city: Modes of being a flaneur in picture books. Lion and the Unicorn, 36(1), 56–74. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50615
- Mallan, K., Foth, M., Greenaway, R. & Young, G. (2010). Serious playground: Using Second Life to engage high school students in urban planning. Learning, Media and Technology, 35(2), 203–225. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29058
- Mallan, K., Singh, P. & Giardina, N. (2010). The challenges of participatory research with 'tech-savvy' youth. Journal of Youth Studies, 13(2), 255–272. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/27233
- Mallan, K., (2009). Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/27230
- Mallan, K. & Giardina, N. (2009). Wikidentities: young people collaborating on virtual identities in social network sites. First Monday, 14(6), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/20932
- Bradford, C., Mallan, K., Stephens, J. & McCallum, R. (2008). New world orders in contemporary children's literature: Utopian transformations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/13819
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kerry, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- 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
- 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 scholar, Children's Literature Institute Summer School, Roehampton University.
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited visiting scholar, University of Surrey, Roehampton
Selected research projects
- 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
- Fostering digital participation through Living Labs in regional and rural Australian communities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP130100469
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- digital citizenship; rural & regional; digital literacy
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Shadows: Re-visualising the shark. Developing a framework for hybrid photography in the illumination of nonhuman animal and ecological perspectives at Heron Island and Gladstone, Great Barrier Reef (2013)
- School-Community Engagement: A Critical Approach to Involving Young People in An Urban Planning Project (2012)
- Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (2011)
- Same-sex Desire in Young Adult Fiction: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinities (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)
- Reading the Environment: Narrative Constructions of Ecological Subjectivities in Australian Children's Literature (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)
- "Doing Serious Work or Just Playing?": Computer Games in Subject English (2004)