Dr Thomas Sandercock

• Queer and transgender literary and cultural representation
• Children's and young adult literature, television, and film

• Literary Studies
• Children's and Young Adult Literature
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Media Studies

ALL102: From Horror to Romance: Genre and Its Revisions

ALL153: Literature for Children and Young Adults

ALL154: Power Politics and Texts for Young People

ALL256: Gender, Sex and Literature

ALL260: Australian Literature

ALL375: Shakespeare

ALL326: Gender and Sexuality in Texts for Young People

AGS101: Sex and Gender: Ideas That Changed the World

AGS102: Histories of Sex and Gender

AGS200: Gender, Sexuality and Culture

ALC104: Media Genres: Negotiating Textual Forms And Pleasures

Children's and Young Adult Literature; Literary Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Transgender Studies; Queer Theory; Television and Film

• 2021 (with Dylan Holdsworth) “Double feature: re-viewing crip and trans representation in horror and thriller cinema.” Postgraduate and ECR Symposium. Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network, Deakin University, Online, 11-12 November.
• 2018 (with Dylan Holdsworth) ‘Not a happy camper: re-viewing the dynamic between mental illness and transgender subjectivity in the 1980s teen slasher film Sleepaway Camp.’ Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association and The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Deakin University, 22-24 November.
• 2016 ‘’You! A bloke?’: reading the interplay between Australian identity and transgender masculinity in young adult fiction.’ Association for the Study of Australian Literature, UNSW, Canberra, 6-9 July.
• 2016 ‘’You! A bloke?’: reading the interplay between Australian identity and transgender masculinity in young adult fiction.’ Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research, Charles Sturt University, 13-15 July.
• 2015 ‘Graphic difference: policing and politicising gender diversity in young adult graphic novels.’ A Symposium on Gender: Old and New Theories and Practices of Gender, Deakin University, 26 November.
• 2014 ‘‘The pain came from inside, deep and deadly’: affect, transition, and imag(in)ing trans subjectivity in Cris Beam’s I am J.’ Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research, Deakin University, 30 June-2 July.
• 2013 ‘How Unique!: Glee’s transgender politics.’ International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Maastricht University, 10-14 August.
• 2013 ‘How Unique!: Glee’s transgender politics.’ Postgraduate Literature and Culture Seminar Series, Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, 7 June.
• 2012 ‘An appropriate body (of knowledge): (un)queering the transsexual in Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica.’ Deakin University, Monash University, and Melbourne University, 26-27 November.
• 2012 ‘An appropriate body (of knowledge): (un)queering the transsexual in Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica.’ Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association, University of New South Wales, 21-23 November.

• Letter recognising Excellence in Teaching from Associated Head of School (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
• Deakin University Shortlisted Award for Alfred Deakin Medals for Doctoral Theses
• Deakin University Post-PhD Prize, 2017
• Deakin University HDR Publication Prize, 2016
• Letter recognising Excellence in Teaching from Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning). Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, 2015

• Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Scholarship, 2013-2016.
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor’s Prize, 2013