Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Communication and Creative Arts


   Dr. Elizabeth Bullen

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email elizabeth.bullen@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Communication & Creative Arts
Phone +61 3 924 43965
Campus Burwood
Location Room C5.22
Role and profile Dr Liz Bullen lectures in the Literary Studies major sequence at the Burwood campus and off-campus Masters units in Children's Literature.

She has published on child and youth media cultures, globalization, and higher education. Her co-authored books include Consuming Children: Education, Entertainment and Advertising (2001), which was a Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week (UK). Haunting the Knowledge Economy (2006) is published in Routledge’s International Library of Sociology and draws on a range of theorists including Derrida and Lyotard to discuss the ways in which the intersections between knowledge, technology and the economy are reshaping contemporary life.

Liz’s contribution to research at Deakin is in the field of children’s literature and media. Her literary analyses of children’s texts are strongly attentive to contemporary social and cultural change. Her current research centres on social class, with strands that include the influence of consumer capitalism on texts for the young.

Liz has also published on the textual treatment of global risk scenarios and the ways in which children’s fiction models resilience in the current climate of fear and uncertainty.

Teaching responsibilities ALL101
ALL102
ALL701
ALL722
Research interests Children's literature
Class and consumerism
Postfeminist girlhood
Intersections between social theory and literary studies
Children, risk and cultural anxiety
Globalization and the cultural economy
Service to the University,
discipline or community  
SCCA School Executive
Faculty of Art and Education Research Committee
BA Advisory Board
Qualifications PhD (Flinders University)
GCHE (Deakin)
Memberships Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research
Children’s Literature Association
International Research Society for Children’s Literature
ARACY

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22nd April 2013