Rate My Professor Ellen Greenham

Ellen J. Greenham, PhD, FHEA, serves as Lecturer in Learning, Teaching and Technology at Murdoch University, where she also holds the position of Academic Lead for the Career Learning Spine. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies, Graduate Diploma in Humanities with Honours (English), Master of Arts (English), and Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University's School of Arts in 2013. Her PhD thesis, Neocosmicism: God and the Void, supervised by Serge Tampalini and David Moody, explores philosophical and literary themes central to her research.

An interdisciplinary humanities academic, Greenham works at the intersection of science fiction, futures thinking, and data ethics, drawing on her training in English literature. She published the book After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank Herbert with Hippocampus Press in 2022, extending her doctoral research into analyses of cosmicism and neocosmicism in 20th-century horror and science fiction. Additional works include Vision and Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond the Death of God (2009), conference presentations such as Predators in the Proving Ground (MUPSA Multidisciplinary Conference, 2012), Lethal Proximity (Australian National Science Fiction Convention NatCon 50), and Nuclear Diaspora - Meet Me at the 100RADS (Recalibrating Diasporas, 2019), and the podcast episode 152-After Engulfment (2022). In 2019, she presented the invited keynote Approaching the Threshold: Cosmicism and neocosmicism in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Greenham coordinates units including MSP100 Career Learning: Managing Your Career, MSP201 Real World Learning, and CRM310 Criminology, supporting students' career development. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she advances teaching excellence.