About me
I am a Lecturer in Professional Learning, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I currently coordinate Murdoch's Advance HE Fellowship programs and Certificates in Learning and Teaching. My professional research interests lie with the scholarship of teaching and learning, and professional learning in higher education. I sit on various Boards and committees here at Murdoch, and represent the university on local and national committees such as the Western Australian Learning and Teaching Forum and the Advance HE Program Leaders Network.
I am also an active academic in English and Cultural Studies, with specialist expertise and publications in the areas of Literary Studies, Gothic and Horror Studies, and Popular Culture Studies. I am Associate Editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, and I act as a peer reviewer for various journals and publishing houses, including Routledge, Taylor and Francis, and Peter Lang Oxford. I have examined multiple theses (Honours, Masters, and PhDs) in the field for universities in Australia and New Zealand. I am a co-founding committee member of the Australasian Horror Studies Network, and contribute to the organisation of our online Symposium annually.
I was awarded my PhD in English and Cultural Studies from The University of Western Australia in 2017, and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership from Queensland University of Technology in 2022.
My current research interests are in the following:
- Professional Learning & Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- English & Literary Studies
- Victorian Literature & Neo-Victorianism
- Popular Culture Studies
- Gothic & Horror Studies
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QUT Executive Deans’ Commendation for Academic Excellence
Thesis Title: The Ghosts of the Gothic in Peter Ackroyd's Literary London Abstract: This study proposes a Gothic theory of the history of place at work within Peter Ackroyd’s literary depictions of London, wherein history and geography are fused together to form a palimpsest that is symbolically manifested through spatial hauntings, textual traces, and uncanny returns. It examines the commonalities between four of Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictions set in London: Hawksmoor (1985), The House of Doctor Dee (1993), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994), and The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008). The study performs a close textual analysis of the novels alongside Ackroyd's London histories, reading them through the framework of the Gothic mode. Supervisors: Professor Kieran Dolin, Associate Professor Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
First Class Honours in English and Cultural Studies. Double Major in English and Cultural Studies, and Politics and International Relations. Honours Dissertation Title: "Housed in Separate Identities: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Unhomely Home". Supervisor: Professor Judith Johnston Publication: Prosser, Ashleigh. "His bachelor house: The Unhomely Home of the Fin-de-Siècle’s Bourgeois Bachelor in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", Journal of Stevenson Studies 11 (2014): 105-126.