A/Prof Allison Craven ~ Associate Professor
Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
- About
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- Teaching
- Interests
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- Professional
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- Treasurer, Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
- Research
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- RECENT CONFERENCE PAPER: Craven, A. ‘Strange Homesteads: Architecture, Remoteness, and the Matter-Real of Australian Gothic Cinema.’ Conference of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, 30 Nov-2 Dec 2022 (online).
- RECENT CONFERENCE PAPER: Craven, A. ‘Unbinding Conventions: Folk Horror and the Australian Cinema Revival.’ Australian Media Traditions Conference, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 21-22 September, 2023.
- RECENT CONFERENCE PAPER: Balanzategui, J. and A. Craven. ‘The Feeling for Folk Horror: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult.’ Folk Horror Panel, Mapping Global Horror, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne 17-18 March 2023.
- RECENT CONFERENCE PAPER - Craven, A. ‘Fathomable Dreams of the Doldrums: Haunted Women and the Oceanic Uncanny in Visitors (2003) and Triangle (2009). Haunted Shores 2023 Online Conference: Aquatic Surfaces and Depths, 7-8 April 2023.
- CONFERENCE PAPER: Craven, A. ‘Sunlight, Submersion and Amphibious Beings: Thinking With Water and Australian Gothic.’ Roundtable Guest Panelist on ‘Human-water relations and the Fantastique’ Reading & Screening the Fantastique Research Network, Deakin University 27 October, 2022.
- Experience
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- 2018 to 2021 - Member (Elected Academic Staff), 17th JCU Council (Australia)
- 2010 to 2016 - BA Coordinator, JCU (Australia)
- 2007 to 2009 - Academic Board, JCU (Townsville)
- Research Disciplines
- Socio-Economic Objectives
Allison Craven lectures in English and Screen Studies. Her primary research interests are in: fairy tale and gothic narrative; film and cinema in Australia; Asia and Australia in cinema; intermediality of theatre and cinema. She teaches courses in Gothic Fiction, and Children's Literature, and she coordinates the first-year Arts core subject, Time, Truth and the Human Condition (see 'Teaching')
Edited Collections
Balanzategui, J and A Craven, eds. 2023 Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Amsterdam University Press.
Craven, A and D Sandars, eds. [Forthcoming 2024]. Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters. Routledge.
Monographs
Craven, A. 2017. Fairy Tale Interrupted: Feminisms, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema. Peter Lang.
Craven, A. 2016. Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies. Anthem.
Selected Recent Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Craven, A. (Forthcoming). 'Margery's Miscellany, or What "All the world must allow": Children's Citizenship, Goody Two-Shoes, and the Fairy-Tale Public Sphere.' In Just Wonder: Shifting Perspectives in Tradition, eds Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme. Utah State UP.
Craven, A. (Forthcoming 2024). 'Vampire Hydrology and Coastal Australian Cinema: Saturation, Sunlight and Amphibious Beings.' In Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters, eds. Allison Craven and Diana Sandars (166-185). Routledge.
Craven, A. (2023). 'An (Un)Common Ancestor: Australian Tales of the Bunyip.' In Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality, eds. J. Balanzategui and A. Craven (217-240). Amsterdam UP.
Balanzategui, J. and A. Craven. (2023). 'The Folk Horror "Feeling": Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult.' In Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality, eds. J. Balanzategui and A. Craven (241-268). Amsterdam UP.
Craven, A. (2019). 'Terraform and terra firma: Transnational economies of image, landscape and location in screen production in Queensland.' In Regional Cultures, Economies and Creativity:Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond, eds. Ariella van Luyn and Eduardo de la Fuente. Routledge.
- Honours
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- Fellowships
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- 2019 to 2021 - Roderick Scholar in Comparative Literature
- Memberships
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- 2017 - Asian Cinema Studies Society
- 2016 - Australian Teachers of Media
- 2015 - Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
- 2012 - Australian Collaboration Education Network
- 2005 - English Teachers' Association of Queensland
- 2005 - Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
- Publications
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These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU.
- Journal Articles
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- Craven A (2021) A happy and instructive haunting: revising the Child, the Gothic, and the Australian Cinema Revival in Storm Boy (2019) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018). Journal of Australian Studies, 45 (1). pp. 45-60
- Craven A (2020) The ambiguities of ancestry: antiquity, ruins and the converging literary traditions of Australian gothic cinema. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 14 (3). pp. 162-177
- Craven A (2020) The Good, the Gothic and the transnational rules of the afterlife in The Good Place. Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, 18 (1).
- Craven A (2020) The last of the long takes: feminism, sexual harassment, and the action of change. M/C Journal, 23 (2).
- Craven A (2020) The joy of a Gothic fable: form, didacticism, and 'happy-ness' in Sonya Hartnett's The Ghost's Child and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook. Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 7 (1). pp. 1-16
- Craven A (2018) Where East-meets-West meets Asianization: aesthetics, regionality and Frank Capra's Lost Horizon. Asian Cinema, 29 (2). pp. 175-187
- Book Chapters
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- Balanzategui J and Craven A (2023) The Folk Horror “Feeling”: Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult. In: Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 241-268
- Craven A and Sandars D (2023) Introduction: Gothic Tides in the Oceanic South-Uncanny Contradictions and Compulsions. In: Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters. Routledge, Abingdon, UK
- Craven A (2023) Vampire Hydrology and Coastal Australian Cinema: Saturation, Sunlight, and Amphibious Beings. In: Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 167-185
- Craven A (2023) An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip. In: Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 217-240
- Craven A and Balanzategui J (2023) Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media: The Im/materialities, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous. In: Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 11-32
- Craven A (2019) Terraform and Terra Firma: transnational economies of image, landscape and location in screen production in Queensland. In: Regional Cultures, Economies and Creativity: innovating through place in Australia and beyond. Routledge Advances in Sociology. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 67-81
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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 37+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Allison Craven from 2002 onwards.
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- 4.129, Social Sciences (Townsville campus)
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