Biography
Dr Fleur Gabriel is a lecturer in humanities with a particular teaching focus on media studies and digital cultures. Fleur joined Federation University in 2014, having worked previously in lecturing roles at Monash University, where she also completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Fleur enjoys helping students critique and interrogate the conditions of contemporary media cultures and apply these understandings across different social sites and contexts. Her research interests include youth cultures and discourses, identity and representation, media technologies and their social effects.
Fleur’s publications span both disciplinary research and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is currently focused on exploring academic integrity issues associated with Generative AI, both in her role as an academic integrity officer and in relation to effective curriculum and assessment design in the humanities.
Fields of research
- Media studies
- Culture, representation and identity
- Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
More about Fleur
Qualifications
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Teaching), Federation University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Monash University
- Bachelor of Arts (Communication), Monash University
Areas of interest
- Youth discourses and conceptual frameworks
- Subjectivity and representation
- New/digital media technologies
Areas of expertise
- Textual and discourse analysis
- Cultural and media theory
- Youth identities and subjectivities
Current
- Graduate Certificate in Research student, Federation University ‘Re-scripting the public voice: An exploration of how power is negotiated in language and its relationship with gendered violence in the workplace’, supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Self-Help Culture on Social Media: How to Become your “Best Self”’, principal supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Turing’s Mirror: Navigating Nonconformity and AI Ethics Through Speculative Biography’, principal supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘The Unchild Memoir: Conveying Otherness Through the Changeling Metaphor in Autosomatography’, principal supervisor.
Past
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Into the Messiness of Relational Autosomatography’, associate supervisor.
- Media studies
- Digital cultures
- Technology and society
Specialist roles
- Academic Integrity Officer
- Co-ordinator, Federation University Professional and Creative Writing Internship Program
Professional association memberships
- Australasian Academic Integrity Network
- Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association
- Cultural Studies Association of Australia
- Publications
Implementing student centred learning in a traditional tertiary environment
Presumed innocent: The paradox of 'coming of age' and the problem of youth sexuality in Lolita and Thirteen
Deconstructing youth: Youth discourses at the limits of sense
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.1057/9781137317520
Sexting, selfies and self-harm: Young people, social media and the performance of self-development
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1329878X1415100114