Papers by Maree A Kimberley
Text, Oct 30, 2015
is a writer and independent scholar. She has a Bachelor of Creative Industries, an MA and a PhD f... more is a writer and independent scholar. She has a Bachelor of Creative Industries, an MA and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. Her creativepractice led PhD examined young adult fiction through a posthuman framework and her research interests include young adult fiction, speculative fiction, posthumanism and the intersections between the cultural representations of science, technology and posthumanism in young adult literature. She has published articles, short stories and a children's novella and her work has appeared in academic and literary journals including Meanjin, Pure Slush, Metazen, Social Alternatives, MC Journal and The Human, as well as several anthologies.
TEXT, 2015
This review article is a collaborative autoethnographic exploration of Australasian Young Adult w... more This review article is a collaborative autoethnographic exploration of Australasian Young Adult writing compiled by the contributors of the 'Why YA?: Researching, writing and publishing YA fiction in Australasia' TEXT Special issue. The contributors to the special issue were asked to produce a brief review of what they considered an important Australasian YA text, and why. While the range of narratives examined in this article (and the special issue as a whole) demonstrates the valuable variety of the field, this review article also serves to demonstrate the personal pleasure which each of the contributors takes in the genre. Biographical notes: Denise Beckton, BA Ed (ECU), Grad Dip PH (Curtin), Grad Cert CI (CQU), has a background in public health and education and is a tutor in Creative Industries at Central Queensland University (Noosa campus), where she is a research higher degree candidate, writing a novel and a related dissertation. Beckton has attained multiple awards in the fields of education and public health including the national ACHPER Award for excellence in Health and Physical Education, The WA Healthways Award and a category finalist notation for the WA Premier's Award (Ed). Her latest publication centres on teaching pedagogy in the Creative Industries field.
M/C Journal, 2011
Historically, science and medicine have been a great source of inspiration for fiction writers. M... more Historically, science and medicine have been a great source of inspiration for fiction writers. Mary Shelley, in the 1831 introduction to her novel Frankenstein said she was been inspired, in part, by discussions about scientific experiments, including those of Darwin and Galvani. Shelley states “perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth” (10). Countless other authors have followed her lead, from H.G. Wells, whose mad scientist Dr Moreau takes a lead from Shelley’s Dr Frankenstein, through to popular contemporary writers of adult fiction, such as Michael Crichton and Kathy Reichs, who have drawn on their scientific and medical backgrounds for their fictional works. Science and medicine themed fiction has also proven popular for younger readers, particularly in dystopian settings. Reichs has extended her writing to include the young ad...
New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 2016
This article examines two young adult novels, Kevin Brooks' iBoy and Brian Caswell's A Cage of Bu... more This article examines two young adult novels, Kevin Brooks' iBoy and Brian Caswell's A Cage of Butterflies, and posits that although these novels fall outside accepted posthuman themes, the characters' actions and attributes are nonetheless posthuman. Furthermore, it argues that these novels use the speculative fiction form to address posthuman concerns within a contemporary realism framework. The article draws upon the literary criticism of N. Katherine Hayles, Roberta Trites and others to explore how these novels offer young adult readers positive models as they search for ways to cope with life in an evolving posthuman world. Although some current versions of the posthuman point toward the antihuman and the apocalyptic, we can craft others that will be conducive to the long-range survival of humans and of the other lifeforms, biological and artificial, with whom we share the planet and ourselves.
Creative Industries Faculty School of Media Entertainment Creative Arts, 2014
This creative practice-led thesis consists of a creative work titled Dirt Circus League, which te... more This creative practice-led thesis consists of a creative work titled Dirt Circus League, which tells of a female teenaged medical intuitive who follows an enigmatic cult leader to his isolated home in Cape York, and an exegesis. The exegesis explores the representations and complexities of neuroscience and posthumanism in contemporary young adult fiction. The exegesis also discusses how the mechanics of storytelling changed the novel's original focus from one of neuroscience in relation to impacts and effects on teenage brains to the broader social concerns of posthumanism.
Creative Writing Literary Studies Creative Industries Faculty, 2009
Page 1. Girl in the Shadows and Resilience and coping strategies in contemporary young adult fict... more Page 1. Girl in the Shadows and Resilience and coping strategies in contemporary young adult fiction (a novel manuscript and exegesis) By Maree Kimberley (Bachelor CI – Creative Writing QUT) Creative Writing and Cultural Studies Discipline Creative Industries Faculty ...
This article examines two young adult novels, Kevin Brooks’ iBoy and Brian Caswell’s A Cage of Bu... more This article examines two young adult novels, Kevin Brooks’ iBoy and Brian Caswell’s A Cage of Butterflies, and posits that although these novels fall outside accepted posthuman themes, the characters’ actions and attributes are nonetheless posthuman. Furthermore, it argues that these novels use the speculative fiction form to address posthuman concerns within a contemporary realism framework. The article draws upon the literary criticism of N. Katherine Hayles, Roberta Trites, and
others to explore how these novels offer young adult readers positive models as they search for ways to cope with life in an evolving posthuman world.
Fleur explores the biotechnology’s potential in a posthuman future through fiction, extending the... more Fleur explores the biotechnology’s potential in a posthuman future through fiction, extending the author’s creative writing practice, which investigates posthuman forms created through amalgamating non-human biological matter and the human body via technology.
This creative practice-led thesis consists of a creative work titled Dirt Circus League, which te... more This creative practice-led thesis consists of a creative work titled Dirt Circus League, which tells of a female teenaged medical intuitive who follows an enigmatic cult leader to his isolated home in Cape York, and an exegesis. The exegesis explores the representations and complexities of neuroscience and posthumanism in contemporary young adult fiction. The exegesis also discusses how the mechanics of storytelling changed the novel's original focus from one of neuroscience in relation to impacts and effects on teenage brains to the broader social concerns of posthumanism.
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The following review article is a collaborative autoethnographic exploration of Australasian Youn... more The following review article is a collaborative autoethnographic exploration of Australasian Young Adult writing compiled by the contributors of the ‘Why YA?: Researching, writing and publishing YA fiction in Australasia’ TEXT Special issue. The contributors to the special issue were asked to produce a brief review of what they considered an important Australasian YA text, and why. While the range of narratives examined in this article (and the special issue as a whole) demonstrates the valuable variety of the field, this review article also serves to demonstrate the personal pleasure which each of the contributors takes in the genre. Australasian YA is as exciting as it is critically dense, as rewarding as it is progressive, and as enjoyable as it is diverse.
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Papers by Maree A Kimberley
others to explore how these novels offer young adult readers positive models as they search for ways to cope with life in an evolving posthuman world.
Conference Presentations by Maree A Kimberley
Articles by Maree A Kimberley
others to explore how these novels offer young adult readers positive models as they search for ways to cope with life in an evolving posthuman world.