Dr Robyn McCallum
Ideologies of Identity
Retelling Stories
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Dr Robyn McCallum
Position: Lecturer in English
Contact Details
Office: W6A 628
Phone: 61-2-9850 8883
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: robyn.mccallum@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
Assoc. Dip. Visual Arts (U.W.S. Nepean), BA Phd (Macq)
Profile
Robyn's major focus is on children's and adolescent literature and film,
which she teaches within the undergraduate program and in the postgraduate
MA in Children's Literature. She also supervises Higher Degree Research
topics within this field. Her research interests center on relationships
between cultural ideologies and textual and representational strategies
in texts produced for children and adolescents (especially film and television
texts and adaptations). Her PhD (subsequently published as Ideologies
of Identity in Adolescent Fiction ) examined the representation of
subjectivity in fiction for teenage audiences. Her current research (in
collaboration with John Stephens) is concerned with the impact of global
shifts in politics and culture on children's literature since the end of
the Cold War.
Special interests: children's literature, film and television;
theories of subjectivity; semiotics; and literature and the visual
arts.
Selected publications
Books
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998) [with John Stephens ]
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: the Dialogic Construction
of Subjectivity. (New York: Garland publishing, 1999)
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) [with Clare Bradford, Kerry Mallan, and John Stephens]
Book Chapters
'Other Selves: Subjectivity and the doppelganger in Australian Adolescent Fiction', in Clare Bradford (ed.) Writing the Australian Child, Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1996, pages 17-36.
'Discourses of Femininity and the Intertextual Construction of Feminist Reading Positions' in Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture , ed. Beverly Clark and Margaret Higonnet (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pages 130-141 [with John Stephens]
'Unbronzing the Aussie: Heroes and SNAGs in Fiction and Television for Australian Adolescents', in A Necessary Fantasy: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture , ed. Dudley Jones and Tony Watkins (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000) [with John Stephens]
'There are Worse Things than Ghosts': Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children's Fiction' in A.E. Gavin and C. Routledge (eds.), Secrets and Solutions: Critical Encounters with Mystery in Children's Literature . London: Macmillan, 2001 [With John Stephens]
'Masculinity as Social Semiotic: Identity Politics and Gender in Disney Animated Films', in Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film, ed. John Stephens, New York and London: Routledge, 2002, pages 116-132.
Articles
'[In]quest of the Subject: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity in Caroline Macdonald's Speaking to Miranda ', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , vol.3 (3), 1992:99-105.
'Ideological Reshapings - Pruning The Secret Garden in 1990s Film', Paradoxa 2, 3 (1996): 471-482 (with John Stephens).
'Ethnicity, Agency and Cultural Identity: Nexus and Difference in Australian Youth Films', Papers: Explorations of Children's Literature , vol.8, (2), 1998:40-47
'The Present reshaping the Past reshaping the Present: Film versions of Little Women ', The Lion and the Unicorn, vol.24 (1) January 2000:81-96.
'Utopia, Dystopia, and Cultural Controversy in Ever After and The Grimm Brothers Snow White ', Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 16,2(2002): 201-213 (with John Stephens ).
Other
'Approaches to Literary Fairy Tale', The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford, New York: Oxford University, 2000).
'Fairy Tale and Film' , The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) [with John Stephens].
Teaching
MA in Children's Literature:
LIT847 Romanticism to Postmodernism: Developments
in Children's Literature
LIT848
Young Adult Fiction
LIT856 Picture Books
LIT859 Film and the Folktale Canon
Undergraduate:
ENGL120 Introduction to English
ENGL286 Children's Literature
ENGL300 Literary Studies ('From Doll to Cyborg')
ENGL386 Australian Children's
Literature