Dr John Foster |
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| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
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| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences | |
| School/Unit: | School of Communication | |
| Campus: | Magill Campus | |
| Office: | B2-09 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 24545 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 24745 | |
| Email: | John_dot_Foster_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/John.Foster | |
Program Director, Graduate Diploma in Information Studies
Convenor, Children's Literature major
Teaching interests
- Adults' Popular Literature
- Children's Literature
- Adolescent Literature
- Comparative Literature
I teach the following courses
| LANG 2005 | Children's Literature: The Power of Story |
| LANG 2014 | Children's Literature: Literature and the Media |
| LANG 3009 | Children's Literature: Fantasy |
| LANG 3010 | Children's Literature: Realism |
| LIBR 5013 | Reading for Leisure and Learning |
Professional associations
Australian Library & Information Association
Qualifications
B.A. (Adel.)
M.L.S. (Western Ontario)
Adv.Dip.Ed. (Adel.)
M.Ed. (Adel.)
Ph.D. (Adel.)
Research interests
- Nonbook materials, including comics, graphic novels and manga
- Cross-media adaptations
- Pop/rock music and its writing
Research publications
Popular Literature for Children and Adolescents (sole author)
Bush, City, Cyberspace: Australian Children's Literature into the 21st Century (joint author)
Joint authorship of 3 other books
Author of articles published by British, American, Austrian, Swiss and Australian journals
Expertise for Media Contact
I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
Discipline: Children's Literature
- Australian children's and adolescent literature
- Popular literature for adults, adolescents and children
- Nonbook materials, including comics, graphic novels and manga
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