Dr Emma Maguire ~ Lecturer, English/Writing

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)
• SY2022: Family, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society (Level 2; 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

• Literary studies (4705)
• Creative and professional writing (3602)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Communication (1302)

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

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Maguire E (2019) Constructing the “Instagirl,” deconstructing the self-brand: Amalia Ulman’s Instagram hoax. European Journal of Life Writing, 8. pp. 12-32
• Kennedy U and Maguire E (2018) The texts and subjects of automediality. M/C Journal, 21 (2).
• Cardell K and Maguire E (2015) Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus. Biography, 38 (2). pp. 205-221
• Maguire E (2015) Self-branding, hotness, and girlhood in the video blogs of Jenna Marbles. Biography, 38 (1). pp. 72-86
• Maguire E (2014) Home, about, shop, contact: constructing an authorial persona via the author website. M/C Journal, 17 (3).
• Sheridan S and Maguire E (2014) Relationships to the bush in Nan Chauncy's early novels for children. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14 (3).
• Maguire E (2013) Potential: Ariel Schrag contests (hetero-)normative girlhood. Prose Studies, 35 (1). pp. 54-66

Books

• Maguire E (2018) Girls, Autobiography, Media: gender and self-mediation in digital economies. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

Book Chapters

• Maguire E (2019) Girls' auto/biographical media: the importance of audience reception in studying undervalued life narrative. In: Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 200-207
• Cardell K, Douglas K and Maguire E (2017) 'Stories': social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir. In: Mediating Memory: tracing the limits of memoir. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 157-172

Other research outputs

• Maguire E (2022) Rev. of New Forms of Self-Narration: Young women, life writing and human rights. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 37 (3). pp. 536-542
• Maguire E (2022) Book review of "Witnessing Girlhood: toward an intersectional tradition of life writing" by Leigh Gilmore & Elizabeth Marshall. New York, USA, Fordham University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-8232-8548-8. Auto/Biography Studies, 37 (2). pp. 362-367

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 28+ research outputs authored by Dr Emma Maguire from 2013 onwards.

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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)
• Re-Imagining the Australian Farm Novel: Writing Magic Realism into the Georgic (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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