Rate My Professor Whitney Monaghan

Monaghan has published extensively, co-authoring Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Red Globe Press, 2019; second edition forthcoming 2026) and co-editing Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Key recent works include chapters “Film, television and streaming media” and “Queer theory” in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025), an article on “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and nonbinary representation on Australian scripted television in the 2000s and 2010s” (Media International Australia, 2024), and “Melbourne Women in Film Festival: navigating precarity in building a sustainable professional festival” (NECSUS: European journal of media studies, 2025). As co-convener of Monash’s Gender and Media Lab, she fosters research on screen representation. Beyond academia, Monaghan coordinates the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, curating queer and feminist film programs, screenings, and events; she established the MWFF Critics Lab, Australia’s first mentoring program for women and gender diverse critics. She serves as a peer reviewer for journals including Continuum and Public Relations Inquiry, spoke at the Screen Studies Association of Australia Aotearoa New Zealand conference (2024), and organized the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Seminar (2024–2025). Her scholarship and public engagement advance understandings of diversity, equity, and inclusion in screen media.