Ellie is a Lecturer in English based at Port Macquarie campus and has experience teaching literary studies, children's literature, and creative writing. She completed her Honours (First Class) at Deakin University in 2015 which led to the completion of her PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Dr Alyson Miller and Professor Cassandra Atherton. Her monograph, Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine, was published in 2024 and focuses on the representation of the literary antiheroine in Gothic and crime-fiction texts, with a specific theoretical focus on abjection, the monstrous-feminine, and expressions of sexuality and gender. Ellie's scholarship has been published in national and international journals. Ellie has experience teaching a wide range of subjects and texts including classic and modern Shakespeare, "classic" and "trash" literature, Romanticism, Australian literature, manifestos (creative writing), and literature for children and young adults. Ellie is the author of Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine which was published in 2024 with Rowman & Littlefield. She has forthcoming co-authored papers and book chapters which explore the representation of the female dead body in television series, You, the recent adaptations of Roald Dahl's novels and censorship, the role of the queer medium in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, and dark academia as an emerging genre and contemporary iteration of the Gothic.
Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Eleanore Gardner
Lecturer in English
Port Macquarie
Building 802, Floor 2, Room 2154