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Associate Professor Debra Dudek

Associate Professor

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2551
Email: d.dudek@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML18.111  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2882-8830

Debra is the Coordinator of the English Major in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • ENG1140 Discovering Literature
  • ENG2118 Literature and Theory
  • ENG2120 Popular Texts for Young People
  • ENG3140 From Fiction to Film
  • ENG3160 Graphic Novels
  • ENG3190 Social Justice and Children's Literature

Professional associations

  • 2007 - present - Secretary, International Research Society for Children's Literature (current Member; Secretary from 2019-2023)
  • 2007- present - The Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (Member)

Awards and recognition

Other

  • 2021 - Best Debut Author in The Conversation

Research areas and interests

  • contemporary literature, film, and television for young people
  • social justice and children’s literature
  • representations of ethics and emotions—particularly in relation to love and sexuality—in texts for young people
  • picture books
  • graphic novels
  • monsters
  • film and television adaptations

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (English), Canada, 2001.
  • Master of Arts, Canada, 1995.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Canada, 1991.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D. (2024). Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Adaptation, Ethics, and Enchantment in Netflix's Heartstopper. Adapting Television and Literature (145-162). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50832-5.
  • Dudek, D. (2024). Adolescent existence and resistance: graveyards as a Gothic chronotope in twenty-first century fiction for young people. Graveyard Gothic (238-251). Manchester University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Green, L., Ringrose, J., Dudek, D. (2024). Australian Teens Talk about Nudes and Dick Pics: It’s not Pornography to Them. M/C Journal, 27(4), Article number 3083.
  • Dudek, D., Grobbelaar, M., Boyd, E. (2024). Wondering about a Love Literacy: Unspoken Desire in Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury. M/C Journal, 27(4), Article number 3073. https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3073.

2023

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D., Wexler, J., Visosevic, T. (2023). Queering Love: Love in Literary and Media Studies. Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? (63-73). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_6.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D., Boyd, E., Grobbelaar, M. (2022). "Tingles and Shivers”: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold's Historical Harlequin Romances Pre- and Post-#MeToo.. New Frontiers in Popular Romance Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century (47-61). McFarland & Company, Inc.. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/3590.

Journal Articles

  • Dudek, D., Woodley, G., Green, L. (2022). ‘Own your narrative’: Teenagers as producers and consumers of porn in Netflix’s Sex Education. Information, Communication and Society, 25(4), 502-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1988130.
  • Green, L., Dudek, D., Cohen, L., Ólafsson, K., Staksrud, E., Jacques, C., Jaunzems, K. (2022). Tox and Detox: Are Teens' Smartphone Use and Non-Use Practices Fully Fungible?. M/C Journal, 25(2), n/a. https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2888.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D. (2021). “Accepting Monsters: Multimodal Gothic in I Kill Giants and A Monster Calls.”. Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others. (181-199). University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11480.
  • Dudek, D. (2021). ‘Are you sure we’re Witches and not Puritans?’: Sexual Flexibility and Unrealised Desire in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Literature for Young People (108-123). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131434-10.

Journal Articles

2018

Books

  • Dudek, D. (2018). The Beloved Does Not Bite: Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Twilight Saga, and The Vampire Diaries. Routledge. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/4837.

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D. (2018). 'Love: it will kill you and save you, both’: Love as Rebellion in Recent YA Dystopian Trilogies. Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (161-174). Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • Dudek, D. (2018). Seeing the Human Face: Refugee and Asylum Seeker Narratives and an Ethics of Care in Recent Australian Picture Books. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 43(4), 363-376. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2018.0044.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Dudek, D. (2016). Good relationships mean good lives: Warrior-Survivor Identity/ies in David Alexander Robertson’s 7 Generations. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 43(1), 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2016.0007.

2014

Book Chapters

  • Dudek, D. (2014). The Beloved that Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Seriality and Young People’s Texts: The Compulsion to Repeat (206-217). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356000_11.

2011

Journal Articles

  • Dudek, D., Johnson, N. (2011). Return of the Hacker as Hero: Fictions and Realities of Teenage Technological Experts. Children's Literature in Education: an international quarterly, 42(2011), 184-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-011-9137-0.
  • Dudek, D. (2011). Disturbing Thoughts: Representations of Compassion in Two Picture Books Entitled The Island. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 3(2), 11-29.

Research Projects

  • Teen-informed strategies to counter sexual image abuse and sextortion , Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects (DP25), 2025 ‑ 2027, $418,673.
  • A comparative investigation into Australian adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content, Australian Research Council, Grant - Discovery Projects, 2019 ‑ 2024, $475,660.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The lived experience of women who experience their sexuality as strong: A multidisciplinary phenomenological study

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, More than counting devices and woolly commodities: An empathic analysis of sheep in Australian texts for young readers.

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Born into Porn: Young People's sources of sexual information. Perspectives on pornography and challenges and resistances to Relationships and Sexuality Education by young people
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Only their voices: Decentring the human in non-human fiction

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, A settler colonial and feminist study of the Journeys in Oscar and Lucinda, Gilgamesh, Journey to the Stone Country, and The Swan Book
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Moving from Pathological to Productive Melancholia: Daughters who Survive Loss in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Fiction
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The fragmented self: The longing (novel) and Intergenerational relations in a Chinese Indonesian family (exegesis)

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Beneath the Money Tree and Nature is a Haunted House: A novel and exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A Wreck of Seabirds: Isolation and entrapment within the Australian coastal gothic landscape
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Tools for analysing the contemporary short story cycle: small moments, unfinished endings, metatextual elements
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Indigenous diasporic literature : representations of the Shaman in the works of Sam Watson and Alootook Ipellie
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Unmasking the quillain: queerness and villainy in animated Disney films
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Heartwood: Spiritual homebuilding and white-vanishing in Australian gothic fiction
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