About

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman is an Associate Professor (Academic Development) at Charles Sturt University. She previously held positions as the Academic Director of Regional Campuses and in Learning Development at the University of Wollongong. Prior to that, she was a secondary teacher.

She holds a Masters of Special Education from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Charles Sturt University, and a doctorate from the University of Wollongong. Her doctoral thesis examines shamanism and Indigenous diaspora in the work of Alootook Ipellie and Sam Watson. She is a past editor of the newsletter of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ). Her work has been published in a number of journals and edited collections. She is co-author of Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Texts and Mental Health Disorders on Television: Representation Versus Reality with Dr Roslyn Weaver; Teaching University Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Guide to Developing Academic Capacity and Proficiency, and the forthcoming The Vampire Diaries as Postmodern Storytelling: Essays on the Television Series and Novels with Nina Vanessa Weber and Dr Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt.

She has presented on contemporary televisual Gothic narratives such as True Blood and The Vampire Diaries at the PCA/ACA conference in Texas,  PopCAANZ conferences in Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Brisbane, Eaton Science Fiction conference in California, and GANZA in Auckland. Full profile here.

Roslyn Weaver is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Western Sydney.

Roslyn graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2008 with a PhD in English Literature. Her PhD was on apocalypse and Australian literature, and her research has been published in Apocalypse in Australian Fictions and Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011). Her other publications include research on popular culture, children’s literature, Australian literature, television and film, and also educational research around popular culture and professional identity in university students. She has taught at university and presented her research at local and international conferences, and has supervised PhD and Honours students. Full profile here.

Kimberley & Roslyn met as doctoral students in the English Literature program at the University of Wollongong. Their book Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Texts focuses on the figure of the shapeshifter in literature and popular culture, and how it is used as a metaphor for difference.

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