Monique Rooney

(She/her)

I research and teach US literature and television in the English Program, Australian National University. Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television (2015) is my book about contemporary melodrama. I am currently completing a book on contemporary “brow” aesthetics while researching the papers of Ruth Park in preparation for writing a literary biography.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Australian National University

Education

  • 2001 
    University of Sydney, PhD

Contact Monique for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision