Dr Katherine Whitehurst
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Dr Katherine Whitehurst is the Director of Teaching and Learning and a Senior Lecturer at MIC. She has worked in Higher Education as an Academic in Canada, Scotland, England and Ireland. In her role as Director, Katherine works to strengthen the practices of teaching, learning, assessment and feedback in the college. She is the head of the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development (LEAD) centre, where she over sees a team of academics and technical experts in the delivery of digital learning PD, resources and support. Katherine contributes to various committees within the college including Academic Council, T&L Directorate, Quality Committee, ICT Services Committee, Faculty Boards and Academic Programme Approval Committee. Katherine is also a member of external organisations including the National Forum, the National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN), Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN) and Advance HE. She contributes to the Shannon Regional Consortium as a representative group member.
Prior to her appointment at MIC, Katherine worked as a lecturer in the field of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool, and lectured at the University of Stirling. Katherine’s academic research focuses on fairy tales; child, youth and age studies; screen and literature; feminism; and gender. Prior to working in media studies, Katherine taught at Brock University in English Literature and Culture.
Publications
2022
Whitehurst, K. (2022). Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. In Oxford Handbook of Children's Film. Oxford University Press.
2021
Whitehurst, K. (2021). Precious Identity, Adaptation and the African American Youth Film. Routledge.
Whitehurst, K. (2021). Youth Films and the Nation: Imagining Obama's American Foreign Policy in Disney’s Moana. Narrative Culture. doi:10.13110/narrcult.8.1.0155
2019
Whitehurst, K. F. (2019). Genre and Female Ageing in Two Contemporary Filmic Adaptations of “Snow White”. Age, Culture, Humanities, (4). Retrieved from Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
2018
Whitehurst, K. F. (2018). The Aged Woman as Specter in Two Filmic Adaptations of “Snow White”. Marvels and Tales: journal of fairy-tale studies, 32(2), 388-405. doi:10.13110/marvelstales.32.2.0388
Whitehurst, K. F. (2018). Growing Up in Magical Time: Representations of Female Growth and Development in ABC's Once Upon a Time. Narrative Culture, 5(1), 1-14. doi:10.13110/narrcult.5.1.0001
Whitehurst, K. F. (2018). Review: Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama, Milly Buonanno (Ed.) (2017). Journal of Popular Television, 6(1), 137-139.
2017
Whitehurst, K. (2017). Stories of Motherhood and Ageing in ABC’s Television Programme Once Upon a Time. In Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture (pp. 129-145). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63609-2_8
