Miss Rebecca Do Rozario - Researcher Profile

Biography

Writing an undergraduate paper that analysed Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a ‘Beauty and the Beast’ narrative, I realised that I wanted to be an academic. I’ve covered musical theatre, animation and fairy tale in my postgraduate work at the University of Queensland and Monash University. Now I teach a range of fairy tale, children’s and fantasy literature. I count myself fortunate to be in a position to spend days thinking, talking and writing about pig kings, other mothers with buttons for eyes, big bad wolves and red shoes.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2003

MASTER OF ARTS

Institution: University of Queensland

Year awarded: 1999

MASTER OF LETTERS IN CULTURAL STUDIES

Institution: Central Queensland University

Year awarded: 1998

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (COMMUNICATION)

Institution: Queensland University of Technology

Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Book Chapters

Do Rozario, R.C., 2008, Fantastic books: the gothic architecture of children's books, in The Gothic in Children's Literature, eds Anna Jackson, Karen Coates and Roderick McGillis, Routledge, New York USA, London UK, pp. 209-225.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2008, Mirrored: the self and inheritance as seen in children's narrative, in The Story and the Self: Children's Literature: Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives, eds Jenny Plastow, University of Hertfordshire Press, Great Britain, pp. 46-57.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2007, Animals Who Talk, Djinn who Mock: Rewriting Britain's Political Past, in To See the Wizard: Politicsand the Literature of Childhood, eds Laurie Ousley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, UK, pp. 130-149.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2007, Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of the Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream?, in Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Languages, eds Janet Brennan Croft, McFarland, North Carolina USA, pp. 42-58.

Journal Articles

Do Rozario, R.C., 2012, Comic book princesses for grown-ups: cinderella meets the pages of the superhero, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique [E], vol 24, issue November, Monash University, VIC, Australia, pp. 191-206.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2012, Consuming books: Synergies of materiality and narrative in picturebooks, Children's Literature [P], vol 40, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, US, pp. 151-166.

Do Rozario, R., 2011, Australia's fairy tales illustrated in print: Instances of indigeneity, colonization, and suburbanization, Marvels & Tales: Journal of fairy-tale studies [P], vol 25, issue 1, Wayne State University Press, US, pp. 13-32.

Do Rozario, R., 2011, Wrocking the collaboration: Wizard rock and the work of J.K. Rowling, Musicology Australia [P], vol 33, issue 2, Routledge, Milton Park Abingdon Oxon UK, pp. 265-276.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2009, Fforde's book upgrades: downloaded errata and metafictional cancellation, Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand [P], vol 32, issue 4, Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, Burwood Vic, Australia, pp. 212-218.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2008, Don't steal a book by its cover: The Book Thief & who reads it, Script & Print, vol 31, issue 2, Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 104-116.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2008, Harry Potter and the adults, The Journal of Children's Literature Studies, vol 5, issue 1, Pied Piper Publishing, Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire, pp. 32-52.

Kao, K., Do Rozario, R.C., 2008, Imagined spaces: the implications of song and dance for Bollywood's diasporic communities, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol 22, issue 3, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 313-326.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2007, Pedagogy and Other Unfortunate Events, Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, vol 17, issue 1, Deakin University, Melbourne, pp. 36-42.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2004, The French musicals: the dramatic impulse of Spectacle, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol 19, issue 1, University of Kansas, Kansas USA, pp. 125-142.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2004, The princess and the magic kingdom: beyond nostalgia, the function of the Disney princess, Women's Studies in Communication, vol 27, issue 1, Organization for Research on Women and Communication, USA, pp. 34-59.

Other

Do Rozario, R., 2011, The Cat Swindle in The Voyage: Journeys in Creative Writing, Short story, Silkworms Ink, Highlands Whatlington Battle East Sussex UK.

Do Rozario, R.C., 2009, Judging a book by its cover, Script & Print: bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol 32, issue 3, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Burwood Vic, Australia, pp. 181-184.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Children of the Fence: Developing new literacies through trans-media narratives.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Poletti, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Damsels and dragons: representations of gender and sexual violence in contemporary epic fantasy.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Spedding, P (Associate), Watson, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Looking back on fairy tale studies.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Kossew, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Parent, know thyself: Charting a history of the parenting book in Australia 1788-1900.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Spedding, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Power and language relations in the Harry potter series.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Kossew, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Telling tales: classical mythology in contemporary children's literature.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Do Rozario, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The God story: seeing the self in religious narrative.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Lokuge, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Why tell beast fables? An exploration of the connotations of animal characters and their functions within the narrative structure of fables..

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Worth, C (Associate).