Dr Elizabeth Wulff is a lecturer in English and has experience teaching a range of literature and sociology subjects. Elizabeth specialises in gender identity politics, gender and work roles, feminist and critical theory, speculative fiction and alternative social landscape relations. She is a qualitative researcher. Elizabeth has worked extensively with the Women in Trades team producing data on the successes and barriers for women in male dominated industries and is a co-lead of CSU’s The Gender Network. Most recently, Elizabeth has critiqued feminism in the films Barbie and Poor Things.

Elizabeth’s PhD explores alternative notions of the heroic in feminist science fiction, unpacking binary oppositions between being and becoming, mind and body, masculinity and femininity, culture and nature. These critiques recognise that narrative space is just as gendered as the characters that occupy it. Using contemporary theories of ‘sex’, ‘gender’, ‘subjectivity’ and the ‘body’ to critique the traditional heroic as a fixed social role and offer an alternative heroic, available to any body, Elizabeth’s thesis explores ‘thinking differently’ about the social world in fiction and reality.