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Dr Emily Palmer

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3182
Email: emily.palmer@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML16.109  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9435-2922

Emily is a Lecturer in Secondary English at the School of Education.

Current Teaching

  • EDU1010 - Becoming a Teacher
  • CUR6210 - Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • LAN2250 - Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • LAN2251 - Planning and Teaching English 7-12
  • CUR3211 - Integrating Curriculum with Practice
  • CUR4210 - Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation

Background

Emily has worked in various secondary and tertiary contexts across the Northern Territory and Western Australia. She completed the Teach for Australia program before commencing at ECU, and is passionate about equity in education, and fostering a love of reading and literature in her students.

In 2020, she received her practice led PhD from the University of Adelaide, for her thesis "The (Absent) Female Body: Cross-dressing Narratives in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction".

Awards and recognition

  • 2019 - Carclew Project Development Grant

Professional associations

  • English Teachers' Association of Western Australia (ETAWA)
  • Teachers Registration Board of Western Australia (TRBWA)
  • The Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR)

Research areas and interests

  • Children's literature
  • Fantasy & apocalyptic fiction
  • Representations of gender and sexuality
  • Creative writing instruction & pedagogy
  • Secondary English Education

Qualifications

  • Master of Teaching (Secondary) (Leading Learning), Australian Catholic University, 2022.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, 2020.
  • BA with First Class honours, The University of Adelaide, 2015.
  • BA Creative Writing and English, The University of Adelaide, 2014.
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