About

Emma Maguire is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing. She is currently researching women's narratives of youth sexual trauma after #MeToo.

Emma has a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Flinders University (2011), and a PhD in English Literature, also from Flinders University (2016). She is an award winning teacher of English and Creative Writing, and she was the recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence for her PhD thesis,  Automedial Girlhoods: Reading Girls’ Autobiographical Practice in Digital Contexts.

Her book Girls, Autobiography, Media: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) investigates autobiographical strategies employed by girls and young women in contemporary digital media, and it considers how such self-representations of youthful femininity are received and critiqued.

Emma is a co-founder of The Hearth Collective, a group of creatives who host regular events in Adelaide to support emerging writers and artists.

She is a member of the Life Narrative Lab and a steering committee member for the International Auto/Biography Association Asia-Pacific Chapter. 

She is the ECR rep for the CASE Cohort Mentoring Program and she was Co-Coordinator of the English Major from 2019-2020 inclusive.

Teaching
  • EL1009: Great Books (Level 1; TSV)
  • EL2011: Creative Writing (Level 2; TSV)
  • EL2014: Creative Nonfiction (Level 2; TSV)
  • EL3013: Reading and Writing the Short Story (Level 3; TSV)
Interests
Research
  • Life Writing and Auto/Biography Studies
  • Creative nonfiction, memoir, the personal essay, autobiographical representation, biographical writing
  • Gender in literature and popular culture
  • Digital media, automediality, self-branding, and media history
Experience
  • 2016 - Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
  • 2013 to 2015 - Tutor - English & Creative Writing, Flinders University
Research Disciplines
Socio-Economic Objectives
Honours
Awards
  • 2017 - Vice Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
  • 2015 - Best Student Paper Award for “Home, About, Shop, Contact: Constructing an Authorial Persona via the Author Website,” published in M/C (Media/Culture) Journal.
  • 2014 - School of Humanities and Creative Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Part Time Teaching
  • 2013 - Runner Up: 3 Minute Thesis University Final
Memberships
  • Australasian Association of Writing Programs
  • International Auto/Biography Association
Publications

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 39+ research outputs authored by Dr Emma Maguire from 2013 onwards.

Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current
  • Practice-led research in creative writing: exploring the power of nature to alleviate feelings of homesickness through life writing. (PhD , Primary Advisor)
  • Affect and Relationality in #MeToo Literary Narratives (PhD , Primary Advisor)
  • Searching for the German Modern Girl: Literary Representations of Womanhood during the Weimar Republic 1920s ? 1930s (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
Completed

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  • 4.125, Social Sciences (Townsville campus)
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