About me

I am a Lecturer in Professional Learning at Murdoch University, 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 the higher education sector.

I am also an active academic researcher in English and Literary Studies, with specialist expertise in the areas of Gothic, Horror, and Popular Culture Studies. I am Associate Editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, and a co-founding committee member of the Australasian Horror Studies Network.

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.

  • Professional Learning & Development
  • Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
  • English & Literary Studies
  • Victorian Literature & Neo-Victorianism
  • Popular Culture Studies
  • Gothic & Horror

Links

Associate Editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2022-present.
Co-founding Committee Member of the scholarly community, the Australasian Horror Studies Network (AHSN), 2021-present.
I developed pedagogical practices for teaching in Murdoch's new tech-enriched active learning building.
Prosser, Ashleigh Jayne. "The Ghosts of the Gothic in Peter Ackroyd's Literary London." PhD Thesis, UWA, 2017.

Awards

VC's Citation for Excellence in Enhancing Learning
Murdoch University (Australia, Perth), 2025
DVCE Education Portfolio Citation for Learning and Teaching
Murdoch University (Australia, Perth), 2025
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Advance HE (United Kingdom, York), 25/11/2024
QUT Executive Deans’ Commendation for Academic Excellence
Queensland University of Technology (Australia, Brisbane) - QUT, June 2022

Organisational Affiliations

Lecturer in Professional Learning, Other Affiliations, Murdoch University

Lecturer Professional Learning, Learning, Teaching and Technology, Murdoch University

Member, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)

Co-founding Committee Member, Australasian Horror Studies Network

Murdoch Representative (Committee), WA Teaching and Learning Forum

Education

Graduate Certificate in Education (Educational Leadership)
2021–2022, Graduate Certificate in Education, Queensland University of Technology (Australia, Brisbane) - QUT

QUT Executive Deans’ Commendation for Academic Excellence

PhD (English and Cultural Studies)
2012–2017, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Australia (Australia, Perth) - UWA

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

Bachelor Arts (Honours)
2008–2011, Bachelor of Arts(BA, AB, BS, BSc, SB, ScB), University of Western Australia (Australia, Perth) - UWA

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.