Rate My Professor Brooke Collins-Gearing

Collins-Gearing's research interests center on children's literature, Indigenous literature, Australian literature and film, including non-Indigenous representations of Indigenality in Australian children's literature, reading practices of young Murri youth, reading for Indigenous tertiary students, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborations in film and literature. Her research fields are distributed as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature (50%), young adult literature (25%), and children's literature (25%). She received the ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers' Development Fellowship from January 2006 to December 2007. Key publications include her PhD thesis 'When the hairy man meets Blinky Bill: the representation of indigenality in Australian children’s literature' (2002); journal articles such as 'Re-Reading Representations of Indigenality in Australian Children's Literature: a History' (2006), 'Growing up the future: children's stories and Aboriginal ecology' (2012, with B. Kwaymullina et al.), 'Burning Off: Indigenising the Discipline of English' (2016, with R. Smith), 'Flourishing in Country: An Examination of Well-Being in Australian YA Fiction' (2020, with A. Britten), ''Criminal Dreaming': Reimagining Crime and Justice in Australian Aboriginal Crime Fiction' (2025, with J. Gulddal), and 'Imperfect Seclusion: Critiquing Networks and Networking Critique' (2025, with A. Rolls); as well as chapters like 'Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks: Ceremonial Listening to Plants' (2023). She contributed editorially to The Australian Canadian Studies (2004). Her scholarship influences indigenising English discipline and cultural representations in Australian narratives through publications in journals including M/C Journal, Westerly, and Australian Journal of Indigenous Education.