Melissa Merchant Editor

Lauren O’Mahony (PhD, FHEA) is Senior Lecturer in Communications at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her research focusses on Australian women’s literature as well as media analysis, media audiences, and creativity. Her research has been published in numerous high-quality journals and edited books.

Rahul K. Gairola (PhD, Asia Research Centre Fellow) is The Krishna Somers Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has widely presented and published in reputable research forums, and is Editor of the Routledge/ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Book Series.

Melissa Merchant (PhD, SFHEA) is Academic Chair of English & Creative Arts at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her recent research focuses on contemporary performativity. She has contributed to Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Seventeenth Century, and Outskirts, and a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Disability and the Media.

Simon Order (M.Sc, PhD) is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University, Western Australia, who specialises in radio studies and music technology studies. His research has recently become more diverse with work focusing on post-apocalyptic television studies and universal design for online learning events and social mobility in Australia.