Dr. Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines the representation of gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not ‘Just a Phase’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019).